“The Man Who Came to Dinner” quotes
(1942)
Title The Man Who Came to Dinner
Year 1942
Director William Keighley
Genre Comedy, Romance
Year 1942
Director William Keighley
Genre Comedy, Romance
Plot – The famous orator Sheridan Whiteside is touring the American provinces for a number of conferences. One day he accepts the invitation of an Ohio family who admires him greatly and, along with his secretary Maggie Cutler, visits the Stanleys' home. Unfortunately, when he is about to cross the threshold, he slips on the ice and dislocates his foot. The injury forces him to stop in the house of his guests who, thanks to his extravagant and unkind behavior, quickly lose the esteem they had felt for him. When the doctor confirms that his foot is in place and that there is nothing serious, Whiteside decides to remain at the Stanleys' to try to derail the love story between his secretary and a young local journalist with playwright aspirations.
All actors – Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, Elisabeth Fraser, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier, Mary Wickes, Russell Arms
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“If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed you, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross!”
“Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?”
“I think you're incapable of any emotion higher up than your stomach!”
“You have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside.”
“The next time you do not want to see anybody, just let me know, and I'll usher them right in.”
“After one month with you, Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on, anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure.”
“Don't you pull any of your tricks on me, because I'm on to every one of them. So lay off.”
“My dear, you are the moon flower of my middle age.”
“Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”
“I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity.”
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