# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1884 "2022-08-29T16:46:41Z")
Nope. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1885 "2022-08-29T16:51:53Z")
I’m stumped. 😖 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1886 "2022-08-29T17:06:46Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Dinner at Eight, A: Jean Harlow, B: Marie Dressler. A classic exchange! I was totally unfamiliar with this movie, but I see that it’s very highly rated. Now I’ve got to look it up. It’s not just for its own sake – I see that the character Marie Dressler plays is named _Carlotta Vance_. That triggered something in my memory. Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mystery _The Father Hunt_ involves a woman named Carlotta Vaughn and a man named Floyd Vance. I realize that the novel is sixty years old now, but I still don’t want to spoil a Nero Wolfe mystery. Vance, it turns out, is the father the woman in the story is looking for, and Carlotta Vaughn was her mother (although she changed her name completely before having her) If the couple had married, the mother would have been Carlotta Vance. I can’t help but think that Stout must have seen _Dinner at Eight_ and either consciously or subconsciously used the names. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1887 "2022-08-29T17:36:06Z")
Yes, and the book Harlow read was obviously Huxley’s _ **Brave New World** _, which was a hot topic at the 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:** [August 29, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1888 "2022-08-29T17:37:37Z")
Eve, maybe? Virginia Woolf? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1889 "2022-08-29T17:55:30Z")
Nah. Here it is: > **[Rebecca (1940) ⭐ 8.1 | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1)** > > 2h 10m | Approved Don’t bother with any other version. This is The One. The line is spoken by Beatrice Lacey (Gladys Cooper), sister of the (anti)hero Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) to the footman Robert while he is serving lunch (or “luncheon” as the posh folks said in them days). The [IMDB trivia page for _Rebecca_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) is fascinating. Here’s one tidbit: > Because Sir [Laurence Olivier](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000059) wanted his then-girlfriend [Vivien Leigh](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046) to play the lead role, he treated [Joan Fontaine](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000021) horribly. This shook Fontaine up quite a bit, so director Sir [Alfred Hitchcock](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033) decided to capitalize on this by telling her everyone on the set hated her, thus making her shy and uneasy, just what he wanted from her performance. Hitchcock was a real SOB. But a great director. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1890 "2022-08-29T17:59:04Z")
His father had him arrested when he was five, as a prank. That might have had something to do with it. I was going to guess the movie had either Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, or Joan Fontaine in it. So I was getting warm! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1891 "2022-08-30T00:28:50Z")
_“This will not look good on a resume!”_ ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1892 "2022-08-30T01:17:23Z")
Two completely unrelated movies: “And there goes the Challenger, being chased by the blue, blue meanies on wheels.” and **A:** “Who’s that?” **B:** “Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson?” **A:** “Oh, your boyfriend.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1893 "2022-08-30T02:04:09Z")
“Honey, if paramour means what I think it does, you’re gambling with your front teeth.” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1894 "2022-08-30T02:18:30Z")
Good Morning, Vietnam, when Cronauer finds out his Vietnamese friend is a member of the Viet Cong. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1895 "2022-09-18T17:45:57Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Good Morning, Vietnam, when Cronauer finds out his Vietnamese friend is a member of the Viet Cong . Correct. “You were stung as a child, weren’t you?” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1896 "2022-09-18T18:21:29Z")
“Show your courage in your leaping.” ---
**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:** [September 18, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1897 "2022-09-18T22:04:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Couldn’t get away with this one today: > > “Here you are, fellas. Chewing gum. You likee. Got a new opium flavor.” Torpedoman’s Mate Lester Gruber (Carl Ballantine) to Chinese laborers in the first _ **McHale’s Navy** _ movie (1964). “I suppose you like kippers, do you? Partial to a nice black pudding myself. With bacon, of course.” Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit) to prospective boarder “Feathers” McGraw (the penguin) in _ **The Wrong Trousers** _. “And there goes the Challenger, being chased by the blue, blue meanies on wheels.” Blind DJ “Super Soul” (Cleavon Little) in the original _ **Vanishing Point** _ (1971). **A:** “Who’s that?” **B:** “Are you kidding? Ricky Nelson?” **A:** “Oh, your boyfriend.” Identical twins Susan and Sharon (Hayley Mills) in the original _ **The Parent Trap** _ (1961). ---
**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:** [September 22, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1898 "2022-09-22T22:13:04Z")
**A:** “Do you realize what you’ve done? Now we’re gonna have to _humiliate_ ourselves by begging for food!” **B:** “What, again?” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1899 "2022-09-22T22:40:53Z")
“Your spurs.” ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1900 "2022-09-22T22:42:54Z")
“We do function in your absence, double-oh-seven!” ---
**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:** [September 22, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1901 "2022-09-22T23:30:22Z")
Sounds like Q in … _ **Diamonds Are Forever** _, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1902 "2022-09-22T23:31:26Z")
That’s it! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/1903 "2022-09-22T23:54:07Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Your spurs.” _The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142.md?page=96)