# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2184 "2023-03-05T04:56:24Z")
Little Bonaparte. **Fun Fact:** Wilder wanted Edward G Robinson for the role, but he refused. He had worked with George Raft on another movie (I don’t remember which), and the two men hated each other’s guts. (This is according to Tony Curtis’s autobiography.) Persoff also played Jake Guzik in _ **The Untouchables** _. He made a great, great gangster! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2185 "2023-03-05T04:59:38Z")
Interesting! That was some great casting for that movie. How about Spats’ henchman and his “mashie” line. Another good one. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2186 "2023-03-05T05:06:31Z")
Mike Mazurki. Another guy born to play a gangster. I saw **this movie** (a rather odd Cold War thriller) on late-night TV not too long ago. It must be the picture Curtis was referring to: > **[A Bullet for Joey (1955) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047904/?ref_=tt_urv)** > > A Bullet for Joey: Directed by Lewis Allen. With Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz. -In Montreal (Canada), a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a... ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2187 "2023-03-05T05:14:43Z")
Mazurki has been in a lot of movies, hasn’t he? I recognized him right away, but I don’t know which movies he was in. Did he ever play anything but gangsters or bad guys? Tony Curtis? Did he say something in SLIH or in real life? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2188 "2023-03-05T05:23:44Z")
> **[Mike Mazurki - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563417/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > Mike Mazurki. Actor: Some Like It Hot. With an intimidating face like craggy granite and a towering 6'5" solid frame, Mike Mazurki (born Mikhail Mazuruski or Mikhail Mazurkiewicz) was one of cinema's first serial thugs and specialized in playing... I remember him fer sure from the Bowery Boys. The reference to Raft and Robinson is in Tony’s autobiography: > **[Tony Curtis: The Autobiography: Curtis, Tony, Paris, Barry: 9780688097592: Books...](https://www.amazon.ca/Tony-Curtis-Autobiography/dp/0688097596)** > > Tony Curtis: The Autobiography: Curtis, Tony, Paris, Barry: 9780688097592: Books - Amazon.ca ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2189 "2023-03-05T05:28:33Z")
Oh geez! Was it Mazurki who said the “mashie” line in SLIH? The mashie guy seemed heavier set than Mazurki. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2190 "2023-03-05T05:32:22Z")
You’re right; he was standing next to Mazurki. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2191 "2023-03-05T05:33:15Z")
Okay. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2192 "2023-03-05T06:17:42Z")
It was **this guy** : > **[Harry Wilson - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933489/?ref_=tt_trv_qu)** > > Harry Wilson. Actor: Some Like It Hot. Harry Wilson was born on 22 November 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Some Like It Hot (1959), Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) and One Million B.C. (1940). He died on 6 September 1978 in... ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2193 "2023-03-05T06:27:41Z")
Yes, that’s the mashie guy. > **[Harry WILSON](https://en.notrecinema.com/communaute/stars/stars.php3?staridx=72611)** > > Some films in the filmography of Harry WILSON Here is my favorite Mazurki line from SLIH. Spats’ Henchman : _Excuse me_, _ain’t I had the pleasure_ of meetin’ _you two broads before_? Jerry : Oh, no. _You_ must be thinking of _two_ other _broads_. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2194 "2023-03-05T06:28:11Z")
I must have gotten my henchmen mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2195 "2023-03-05T06:39:39Z")
Somehow or other the connotations of this line went over my head when I was four: 😳 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=400&width=400&href=https://www.facebook.com/femde/videos/marilyn-monroe-story-of-my-life-i-always-get-the-fuzzy-end-of-the-lollipop-sugar/1709367659285879/ Oddly enough, it goes all the way back to 1860, but in a completely different context: > **[Urban Dictionary: fuzzy end of the lollipop](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuzzy%20end%20of%20the%20lollipop)** > > The term "fuzzy end of the lollipop" was first used in 1860 by Abraham Lincoln to describe the southern states to a school boy. The term means the dirtier, rougher side of something. I guess my mind is dirtier than Lincoln’s was. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2196 "2023-03-05T06:43:40Z")
Yeah, that happens to me all the time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2197 "2023-03-05T06:45:21Z")
Funny 😀 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2198 "2023-03-05T06:57:56Z")
I’ve worked at many bars and restaurants, even a bowling alley in my town. I’ve also frequented many bars and restaurants in my town with family and friends. Guys were always coming up to me asking where they knew me from. We would start naming bars and restaurants until we figured it out. I’m sure some guys just wanted to chat me up. One time my sister and I were at a bar and this guy came up and asked if we worked at or frequented such and such bar. I said no and named a few of the places he might have known me from. We never figured it out and he walked away. After he did, I leaned over and said to my sister, “He must be thinking of two other broads.” A totally different guy who heard our exchange said to me, “You ever been to Chicago?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2199 "2023-03-05T07:10:01Z")
Another movie buff, obviously! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2200 "2023-03-05T07:15:31Z")
Yes. I was speechless…for a second. My sister and I quote movie stuff all the time, not just from SLIH. I think that was the only time someone else chimed in with the perfect quote at the perfect time. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2201 "2023-03-05T07:26:46Z")
I’m also a Dick van Dyke fan: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0fPNkh2BYbU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 4, Episode 27 - Never Bathe on Saturday - Full Episode") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPNkh2BYbU) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2202 "2023-03-05T07:35:43Z")
Me too! Watched that show all the time. Loved him in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2203 "2023-03-05T07:38:13Z")
Don’t toy with me you saucy wench. I love it! I wish I could say I got it from that show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=111)