Films byTexts by 1940
FILM
Ernst Lubitsch, 1940, 99’

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they’re falling in love through the post as each other’s anonymous pen pal.

 

FILM
George Cukor, 1940, 142’

George Kittredge: You’re like some marvelous, distant, well... queen, I guess. You’re so cool and fine and always so much your own. There’s a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like... like a statue.

Tracy Lord: George...

FILM
Preston Sturges, 1940, 82’

“WHATTA GUY! He loved a fight or a frolic... and he usually found one!”

 

Skeeters: If it wasn’t for graft, you’d get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish.