Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series.
Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.
Sylvester Stallone: You know, I played an overweight cop once.::Arnold Schwarzenegger: I played a Kindergarten cop.::Michael Jackson: Did somebody say Kindergarten?
Sean Connery: I'm Sean... double-O-7... I'm Sean!
Benjamin: Jesus! What, did you steal that off a horse?
Howard: That pig smells like old people.
Brooks: You know why I like movies? I like them because of the experience they bring. Reading is designed to stimulate the mind. Music is designed to alter emotions. But movies... movies are designed for one thing. To escape.
Francis Federman Ugli: Put the retard down!
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Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hired and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, airplane, alvin-karpis, ambition, anarchist, anti-communism, archival-footage
The Most Powerful Man in the World
J. Edgar Hoover: Find Agent Purvis. He is to be demoted or, better yet, fired.
J. Edgar Hoover: What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
J. Edgar Hoover: No one freely shares power in Washington, D.C.
Agent Stokes: The crimes we are investigating aren't crimes, they are ideas.
Harlan Fiske Stone: Lower the treble, son, you didn't call this meeting, I did.
J. Edgar Hoover: McCarthy was an opportunist not a patriot.
Albert Osborne: Is that all, Mr. Hoover? I have a 2:30 class to teach.::J. Edgar Hoover: No, you don't. Consider your pay doubled; you now work for your country. Congratulations, Dr. Osborne.
Annie Hoover: [Contemptuously to Edgar] I would rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son.
J. Edgar Hoover: Do I kill everything that I love?
[first lines]::J. Edgar Hoover: Let me tell you something. The SCLC has direct Communist ties. Even great men can be corrupted, can't they? Communism is not a political party. It is a disease. It corrupts the soul, turning men, even the gentlest of men, into vicious evil tyrants.
Could they learn to love each other as much as the world loved them?
Before the Fans, the Fame, the Fortune...
Carole Lombard: Scarletts! They're all Scarletts! We're up to our butts in Scarletts!
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Buzz and Abercrombie are agents trying to get Jeff Parker the lead in a movie musical. Routines include Lou's insomnia and his being unable to hear Bud due to his wearing an earplug. Lots of movie studio stuff.
Keywords: abbott-and-costello, actor, actress, agent, balloon, barber, barbershop, beauty-parlor, cameo, camera
Your favorite SCREEN TEAM is on the SCREAM BEAM!
A DOUBLE-BARRELLED FUN BURST! (original print ad - all caps)
Buzz Kurtis: Every time you open your mouth, what happens?::Abercrombie: I eat.
Abercrombie: I gotta break the date.::Ruthie: What date?::Abercrombie: Don't you remember? June 22nd?::Ruthie: June 22nd? I don't remwember anything about a date.::Abercrombie: Oh, yes. Don't you remember? I said I was gonna take you to the Palladium a long time ago, and you said, 'See me next year.' Well, tonight the year is up.
Abercrombie: [starting to shave Rags] Now, I got the razor and the smelling salts.::Rags Ragland: The what?::Abercrombie: The smellin' salts.::Rags Ragland: What's that for?::Abercrombie: I faint when I see the sight of blood.::Rags Ragland: Oh...::Rags Ragland: [after a delayed reaction] Blood! Look, if you cut me, there's gonna be plenty of blood, and it's all gonna be yours!
Mr. Burvis, Ruthie's Boss: [reacting to a verbal spat between two of his manicurists] My shop is for hair cutting, not hair pulling!
Gregory LeMaise: [In disguise with a beard] Did you ever hear the one about the guy who was so brave he stuck his right arm into a lion's mouth, right up to there. [he motions to his shoulder]::Abercrombie: [also in disguise] He stuck his right arm in a lion's mouth up to there? [also motioning to his shoulder]::Gregory LeMaise: Yrah!::Abercrombie: His right arm?::Gregory LeMaise: Yeah!::Abercrombie: What's his name?::Gregory LeMaise: Lefty! [he breaks into raucous laughter]::Abercrombie: [he spills his drink into Ambercrombie's turban which is on his lap] You get it?::Abercrombie: [both are laughing] I didn't get it that time.::Gregory LeMaise: You didn't?::Abercrombie: No, no.::Gregory LeMaise: Lefty! [he laughs even louder as Ambercrombie absentmindedly puts his turban on, drenching himself with the drink]::Gregory LeMaise: [Ambercrombie stops laughing] You know, you're a great fellow. You made me forget my troubles.::Abercrombie: You've drowned mine!::Gregory LeMaise: [laughs] You've got troubles too?::Abercrombie: Yes, sir.::Gregory LeMaise: [laughing] No, but I've got real troubles. I killed a man!::Abercrombie: [reacting to the camera] A man killed me. That's why I'm wearing this fake beard.
Abercrombie: A face like mine is hard to forget.::Buzz Kurtis: How do you know?::Abercrombie: I've been tryin' for years!
Buzz Kurtis: You can't sleep?::Abercrombie: No.::Buzz Kurtis: I've got just the thing for you. Don't go away. [He leaves the room]::Buzz Kurtis: [returning with a phonograph record] Well, pal, here it is.::Abercrombie: What do you got there?::Buzz Kurtis: [reading the label] 'Go To Sleep with Dr. Caswell Snide.'::Abercrombie: Oh, no! I wanna sleep alone!
Buzz Kurtis: Now, listen. This is even better than you getting socked. You're dead!::Abercrombie: If I'm dead, then... then why am I so hungry?
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In heaven, showman 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Even from heaven, he is hoping that he can, for one last time, create that same magic by mounting one last follies. As he thinks about who he would like to appear in these follies, he is assisted in realizing his fantasy, at least in his own mind, by such luminaries as 'Fred Astaire' (qv), 'Edward Arnold (I)' (qv), 'Lucille Ball', 'Marion Bell' (qv), 'Lucille Bremer' (qv), 'Fanny Brice' (qv), 'Cyd Charisse' (qv), 'Judy Garland' (qv), 'Kathryn Grayson' (qv), 'Lena Horne' (qv), 'Gene Kelly (I)' (qv), 'James Melton (I)' (qv), 'Victor Moore (I)' (qv), 'Virginia O'Brien' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Esther Williams (I)' (qv), 'Keenan Wynn' (qv), and, of course, a bevy of beautiful girls.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, bag-of-golf-clubs, ballerina, ballet, ballroom-dancing, bird-on-shoulder, bubble, camera-shot-of-a-woman's-legs, carousel
Flashing...smashing SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT! DAZZLING IN ITS BEAUTY...PACKED WITH GLORIOUS Melodies! (original print media ad - many caps)
Greatest Production Since The Birth Of Motion Pictures!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Children play with the dreams of tomorrow. And old men play with the memories of yesterday.
Fred Astaire: I'm sorry, I can't quite place you. What line of business are you in?::Gene Kelly: Well, I dance.::Fred Astaire: Oh, at home, for the folks? Picnics and that kind of thing?::Gene Kelly: Oh, no, no. In public.::Fred Astaire: On street corners?::Gene Kelly: Oh, no. On the screen. Motion pictures! You do go to pictures that have dancing in them, don't you?::Fred Astaire: I try to see them all.::Gene Kelly: Did you see a picture called "Cover Girl"?::Fred Astaire: Yes.::Gene Kelly: Well, who did all the dancing in that?::Fred Astaire: You're not Rita Hayworth?::Gene Kelly: No I'm not... Ginger.
[first lines]::Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Ah... Saturday, September twenty fifth. Another heavenly day. Ah, yes. Always a heavenly day.
Fred Astaire: [sings] Here's to the beautiful ladies / Here's to those wonderful girls / Adele's and Molly's, Lucille's and Polly's / You'll find them all at the Ziegfeld Follies.
Fred Astaire: [sings] This is the mixture to start the picture / So bring on those beautiful girls.
Number Please Telephone Operator: Number, please?
Lawyer's Client: [to the Lawyer] For goodness sake, will you pay him the two dollars.
'Love' Number: [sings] Love can be a cup of sorrow, Love can be a lie. / Love can make you wake tomorrow and sigh.
Fred Astaire: Hello.::Gene Kelly: How are you?::Fred Astaire: How's that folks?::Gene Kelly: What's new?::Fred Astaire: I'm great.::Gene Kelly: That's good.::Fred Astaire: Ha-ha!::Gene Kelly: Knock wood.::Fred Astaire: Well, well.::Gene Kelly: That's life.::Fred Astaire: What do you know?::Gene Kelly: How's the wife?::Fred Astaire: Gotta run.::Gene Kelly: Oh, my.::Fred Astaire: Ta-ta.::Gene Kelly: Olive oil.::Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire: Bye, bye.
[last lines]::'Beauty' Number: [sings] And then someone comes into view / And suddenly you find it's true / That love is beauty too.
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Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Keywords: actress, actress-playing-herself, based-on-play, blind-date, bus, chaperon, dancing, dormitory, fur-coat, graduation
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Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
Keywords: acrobat, army-base, barber, circus, clown, concert, court-martial, dance, dancer, doctor
Private Eddie Marsh: From now on I only kiss women I know.
Hyllary Jones: Trapeze? Are Eddie's parents acrobats?::Kathryn Jones: Aerialists! And I love him!
Frank Morgan: Just checking your pulse. Hmmm... very irregular. Rapid, too!::Lucille Ball: You have your fingers on my wristwatch.
Private Eddie Marsh: There's so much to say.::Kathryn Jones: Don't say anything. Just come back.
Private Eddie Marsh: They call me "The King of the High Trapeze"
Hyllary Jones: Hello, Bill.::Colonel Bill Jones: How are you, Hyllary?