"Meet Cute" in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)

[Mark Odegard]

Barry quoting
>WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?
>A new comedy by
>George Axelrod
>Random House, New York
>Copyright, as an unpublished work, 1955
>Copyright, 1956

>IRVING:  For example--the boy enters a department store to purchase a pair
>of pajamas.  However, as he wears only pajama bottoms--he does not wish to
>buy a _whole_ pair.  He wishes to purchase only bottoms.  The store will
>not sell him just the bottoms.  Nearby is a beautiful girl who is _also_
>seeking to buy pajamas.  But only the tops.  The store will not sell her
>just the tops.  The solution is obvious.  Our boy and girl--strangers until
>this moment--suddenly find themselves the joint owners of a single pair of
>pajamas.  In short, they have _met cute_.

Umm. This dialogue can *only* be inspired by a scene in the Ernst Lubitsch
movie _Bluebeard's Eighth Wife_ (Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, 1938).

I don't remember this particular dialogue in the movie. What do I remember
are not so much JM's breasts, but rather, Betsy Drake's falsies. This film
is still sophisticated, and shows how one can be wickedly salacious but
clean. And yes, that's Mr. Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, as Bobo Branigansky,
whose he-man chest hair is falling-out consequent to his spat with Rita
Marlowe.


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