Nope.
I’m stumped. 
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.
Yes, and the book Harlow read was obviously Huxley’s Brave New World, which was a hot topic at the time.
Eve, maybe?
Virginia Woolf?
Nah. Here it is:
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 is fascinating. Here’s one tidbit:
Because Sir Laurence Olivier wanted his then-girlfriend Vivien Leigh to play the lead role, he treated Joan Fontaine horribly. This shook Fontaine up quite a bit, so director Sir Alfred Hitchcock 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.
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!
“This will not look good on a resume!”
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.”
“Honey, if paramour means what I think it does, you’re gambling with your front teeth.”
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?”
“Show your courage in your leaping.”
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).
A: “Do you realize what you’ve done? Now we’re gonna have to humiliate ourselves by begging for food!”
B: “What, again?”
“Your spurs.”
“We do function in your absence, double-oh-seven!”
Sounds like Q in … Diamonds Are Forever, maybe?
That’s it!
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