Twentieth Century (film) Quotes

Twentieth Century (film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Twentieth Century stopped airing in 1970.

It features Howard Hawks as producer, Howard Jackson; Louis Silvers; Harry M. Woods in charge of musical score, and Joseph H. August as head of cinematography.

Twentieth Century (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Twentieth Century (film) is 91 minutes long. Twentieth Century (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe, Walter Connolly as Oliver Webb, Carole Lombard as Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka, Edgar Kennedy as Oscar McGonigle, Charles Lane as Max Jacobs, Etienne Girardot as Mathew J. Clark, and Ralph Forbes as George Smith.

Twentieth Century (film) Quotes

Walter Connolly as Oliver Webb

• (Walter Connolly) "O.J., suppose; just hypothetically, of course; that you, Mr. Bromo, could get together again with Miss Seltzer."

• (Walter Connolly) "I don't know whether you realize it or not, Owen, but I've always had a terrific influence with her."
• (Unnamed) "Me too. Once I actually compelled her to admit it looked like rain."

• (Walter Connolly) "Hello, Myrtle, put the wizard on the wire. He's in the sanctum."

• (Walter Connolly) "He won't shoot himself. It would please too many people."

• (Unnamed) "He's going to end up in the breadline unless he finds out that these jittery horse operas with a lot of people staggering around in foul iron suits ain't entertainment."
• (Walter Connolly) "Where did you leave Jaffe?"
• (Unnamed) "At the Morrison Hotel under the name of Hemingway, which he's adopted in his grief."

• (Walter Connolly) "What we need is a play, something she can read and see herself walking up and down the stage in."

Etienne Girardot as Mathew J. Clark

• (Etienne Girardot) "I've often thought I might like to devote myself to the theater. Would you think there might be a place for me?"
• (Walter Connolly) "Oh yes, yes. Probably fill a long-felt want."

• (Etienne Girardot) "He had a gun. I shot him in self-defense."
• (John Barrymore) "Owen, I was aiming at myself. He grabbed the gun away from me and shot me. That's the final irony -- Killed by a lunatic."

John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe

• (John Barrymore) "I want to send another"
• (John Barrymore) ". To John Ringling. "I'm in the market for 25 camels, several elephants, and an ibis -- Give me the rock-bottom price.""

• (John Barrymore) "She loves me. I could tell that through her screaming."

• (John Barrymore) "What do you know about talent? What do you know about the theatre? What do you know about genius? What do you know about anything, you -- bookkeeper."

• (John Barrymore) "No cooperation from anybody. Never mind. I'll carry through alone."

• (John Barrymore) "When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes. It never dies."
• (Carole Lombard) "Phooey."

• (John Barrymore) "You amoeba."
• (Charles Lane) "It's the truth, whether you know it or not."
• (John Barrymore) "Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street."

• (John Barrymore) "I close --"
• (Walter Connolly) "Yeah, yeah, I know; the iron door."

• (John Barrymore) "When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes. It never dies."
• (Carole Lombard) "Phooey."
• (John Barrymore) "Love blinded me. That was the trouble between us as producer and artist."
• (Carole Lombard) "So that's what it was, was it? How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?"

• (John Barrymore) "I;m offering you a last chance to become immortal."
• (Carole Lombard) "Then I've decided to stay mortal with responsible management."

• (John Barrymore) "Go on, Owen -- tell her I'm dying -- and DON'T OVERACT."

• (John Barrymore) "Lily, you're crying."
• (Carole Lombard) "Sure, I turn on a faucet. It's that sort of scene."

• (John Barrymore) "-- O tempora, o mores."

• (John Barrymore) "Those movies you were in. It's sacrilege throwing you away on things like that. When I left that movie house, I felt some magnificent ruby had been thrown into a platter of lard."

• (John Barrymore) "I never thought I should sink so low as to become an actor."

• (John Barrymore) "Now, before we begin I want you all to remember one thing. No matter what I may say -- no matter what I may do on this stage during our work -- I love you all."

• (John Barrymore) "Anathema. Child of Satan."

• (John Barrymore) "You squalling litle amateur. On your feet. Get up. Take that hump out of your back. You're not demonstrating underwear anymore."

• (John Barrymore) "Get out of my theatre, you gray rat. And don't have that fat wife of yours come around again, pleading for you."

• (John Barrymore) "Did you hear that? She's left me."
• (Walter Connolly) "Say the word, O.J., and I'll kill myself."

• (John Barrymore) "There's a message I want to go with those gardenias: "To my little madonna of the snows -- " No, wait a minute. We won't use that this time."

• (John Barrymore) "Owen, something tells me you're not educated enough for this sort of thing. I'll have to hire some professor."
• (Unnamed) "Save your dough, sire. I yield the lamp of learning to no one."

Carole Lombard as Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka

• (Carole Lombard) "All those opera tenors, acrobats, that Italian bicycle rider I told you about -- they're all lies. The only man in my life was that cavalier in there. Oscar Jaffe."

• (Carole Lombard) "What is it this time; the big drama about Hairpin Annie, the pride of the gashouse?"

• (Carole Lombard) "Why do they keep hammering at me? Hammering and hammering --"

• (Carole Lombard) "Yes, I tried to save you pain. I lied, yes, only to save you."
• (John Barrymore) "That's from "Sappho"."

• (Carole Lombard) "Is Oscar Jaffe on this train? You'd better tell me."
• (Unnamed) "Right in there. The Little Corporal is returning from another Moscow, his head bloodied but still unbowed."

• (Carole Lombard) "That's the trouble with you, Oscar. With both of us. We're not people, we're lithographs. We don't know anything about love unless it's written and rehearsed. We're only real in between curtains."

• (Carole Lombard) "Oscar, you're complete. The most horrible excuse for a human being that ever walked on two legs."

Edgar Kennedy as Oscar McGonigle

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Ralph Forbes as George Smith

• (Ralph Forbes) "And you wanted my respect."
• (Carole Lombard) "Who cares about your respect? I'm too big to be respected. The men I've known have understood that."
• (Ralph Forbes) "Men you've known? Jaffe, you mean."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes, Jaffe. He'll tell you what I am: A first-class passenger entitled to privileges."
• (Ralph Forbes) "Oh, an artist."
• (Carole Lombard) "You're darned tooting I am."

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