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“I haven’t the remotest notion. She calls me up every now and then and we talk. I call her my telephone dream girl. It’s practically weird.”
Alec Walker · 1939 · film · In Name Only (1939)
Alec Walker jokes about a mysterious caller early in the melodrama of his unhappy marriage.
Screen dialogue, spoken by Alec Walker in In Name Only (1939).
On the same subject.
“Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”
Cary Grant · 1959
“It took time to be accepted; it almost took twenty years until I got to be like a well-advertised brand of tea. Housewives bought that kind rather than take a chance on a brand they are not familiar with.”
Cary Grant · 1961
“I made a lot of mistakes out of loneliness. Consequently, I know a great deal about it.”
Cary Grant
“I loved working with Cary — every minute of it. Between takes he was so amusing with his cockney stories. I was his best audience. I laughed and laughed and laughed. The more I laughed, the more he went on.”
Irene Dunne