Rover Dangerfield (1991)

Actors: Ronnie Schell (actor), Barbara Goodson (actress), Gregg Berger (actor), Robert Pine (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Burton Sharp (actor), Danny Mann (actor), Rodney Dangerfield (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Sal Landi (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Tress MacNeille (actress), Tress MacNeille (actress),

Plot: Rover, a street-smart dog owned by a Las Vegas showgirl is dumped off Hoover Dam by the showgirl's boyfriend. Rather than drowning, Rover winds up in your basic idyllic farm in a classic city-boy-in-country shtick.

Keywords: actor-shares-last-name-with-character, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, birthday, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cat, character-name-in-title, chicken, christmas, christmas-tree
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family,
Taglines: You'll laugh! You'll sing! You'll dance! You'll sit up and beg for more! The dog who gets no respect. Rodney Dangerfield is Rover, a big city hound who trades bright lights for barnyard laughs!

Quotes:

Rover Dangerfield: [after attacking one of the wolves] That one's for the three little pigs!

Rover Dangerfield: All night I'd sit up and beg, she told me I was too old to beg!

[about playing fetch]::Rover Dangerfield: He throws a stick, you run and get it, you bring it back and he throws it again! I don't get it! I mean, what's the point?::Raffles: Because it makes them happy and it gives them lots of exercise::Rover Dangerfield: If they want exercise, let them run and get it.::Raffles: So what should I do?::Rover Dangerfield: It's very simple. You do nothing.

Rover Dangerfield: Where's Flappy?::Queenie: Carmine fired him. He couldn't remember the routines.::Rover Dangerfield: Oh, I saw that coming. Flappy was dumb. Yeah, he used to walk backwards and wag his head. I mean dumb! Carmine taught him to sit, he forgot how to stand! And when Carmine paper-trained him, that was something. He went right on the paper. The only trouble is, Carmine was reading it!

[after "I'll Never do it on a Christmas Tree" he knocks on the front door, door opens,]::Rover Dangerfield: Hey folks! I'll never dampen your holidays! [door slams shut]::Rover Dangerfield: No respect. No respect at all.

Eddie: Boy, that Count's really got class.::Rover Dangerfield: I guess that's my trouble, no class. I looked up my family tree, two dogs were using it!

Turkey: Let me tell you, I won't be here very long.::Rover Dangerfield: I tell ya, the way I see it, you probably won't be around after Christmas!::Turkey: Well, that would suit me just fine! Well, I might have known: There's absolutely nothing to eat here!::Rover Dangerfield: Yeah? Look in a mirror!::Turkey: Oh... I don't get it.::Rover Dangerfield: Don't worry about it, drumstick. You will!

The Broadway Melody (1929)

Actors: Jed Prouty (actor), Irving Thalberg (producer), Blanche Payson (actress), Ray Cooke (actor), Harry Rapf (producer), Anita Page (actress), Bessie Love (actress), Kenneth Thomson (actor), James Gleason (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Mary Doran (actress), Arthur Freed (actor), Edward Dillon (actor), James Gleason (writer), Earl Baldwin (writer),

Plot: Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie.

Keywords: audition, birthday-party, blonde-stereotype, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, chorus-girl, chorus-line, early-sound-film, estrangement, flapper, lost-technicolor-scene
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: The pulsating drama of Broadway's bared heart speaks and sings with a voice to stir your soul! The new wonder of the screen! ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING Dramatic Sensation Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's TALKING SINGING DANCING Dramatic Sensation

Quotes:

Hank Mahoney: [after a cat-fight with a chorus girl] Next time I'll give you a facial instead of a scalp treatment!::Chorus Girl: I'll fix you, ya little peanut!

Eddie Kearns: Those men aren't going to pay ten bucks to look at your face; this is Broadway!::Hank Mahoney: Yeah, "Broad's way!"

Uncle Jed: It's better to star in Pe- Pe- Pe- Osh Kosh than starve on Broadway.

[the Stage Manager is yelling at the electricians in the theater rafters]::Stage Manager: [pointing to the stage] I told you, I want a spotlight *right here*!::[a miffed electrician drops a spotlight off the rafters. It lands on the stage with a crash]::Stage Manager: [cowed] Thank you.