Daily Dialogue — September 4, 2010

“I’ve got to stay here, but there’s no reason why you folks shouldn’t go out into the lobby until this thing blows over.”

 — Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx), Horse Feathers (1932), screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is character’s breaking the 4th wall, suggested by Joshua James.

Trivia: Professor Wagstaff’s exclamation, “Jumpin’ anaconda!” is actually a reference to a company, Anaconda Copper, whom Groucho Marx had invested in heavily. When the stock market crash of 1929 occurred, Marx lost several hundred thousand dollars, hence the curse word in the movie.