Old Hollywood Movies Gifts

Cat watching 'Catsablanca'

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

Herman Mankiewicz

"You should be sniffed, and often, by someone who knows how."

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

'I don't believe it. Five minutes after he gets the darn thing, he has an arrest!'

Meet Me Outside St. Louis

"Why didn't you simply open the window?"

"If you wish to manifest here, you'll have to change. We don't allow anything past 1950."

Tarzan of the damn dirty apes.

Steve McQueen

Solar Frankenstein

"I want to be a more interesting person. Think maybe watching old black and white movies would do it?"

Did you ever get that feeling in the moonlight?

Old Wine in an Old Bottle

'They're alright if you like Charlie Chaplin inflight movies.'

Wizard of Oz - repeat fees

I'm Spartacus.

"How was prom?"

THE WICKERMAN (Hollywood style)

"Me Tarzan. You CGI."

'Because it was there, Dave, because it was there.'

Animal Actors

King Kong

'...tonights main feature is silent and in black and white.'

"Whatcha watching, Dad?"

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't

"All my stuff is 'Rosebud'."

"Wasn't I lovely then eh, Tiddles?"

Notorious gangsters, Bunny and Clyde.

Norman Wisdom at the Pearly Gates

Cary Grant

"Look - we'll whistle when it's fifteen dollars an hour."

"Well, you can't say they didn't warn us."

"Let that breathe a little. But not too much. My last bottle hyperventilated."