query for Fred (or anyone else) on movie line

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jul 8 16:50:31 UTC 2005


>"The Sphinx, Second on the Aisle" By JEAN KERR

No relation to either Deborah Kerr, who speaks the line in the movie
version of T&S, or to John Kerr, to whom she speaks it.  Or to Johnny
"Red" Kerr of the Syracuse Nationals.

L

>New York Times; Mar 13, 1955; pg. SM17 col 3
>"Lately I've become very adept at judging the precise line on which to
>start pulling the sleeves of my coat out from under the lady next to me.
>This might be when an actress says, "In future years, when you speak of
>me, be kind,"
>or when an actor says, "Now that I've got you darling,
>I'll never let you go," although I have known shows in which he let her
>go for another ten minutes after that."
>



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