Only When I Laugh (1981)
Actors:
Guy Boyd (actor),
James Coco (actor),
Peter Coffield (actor),
David Dukes (actor),
Wayne Franson (actor),
Steve Kelley (actor),
Llewellyn Lafford (actor),
Nick Lapadula (actor),
Ron Levine (actor),
Philip Lindsay (actor),
Dan Monahan (actor),
Ed Moore (actor),
Henry Olek (actor),
Tom Ormeny (actor),
Kevin Bacon (actor),
Plot: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Keywords: based-on-play, new-york-city
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Taglines: It'll make you laugh...'til you cry. Kristy McNichol is a daughter who never had a childhood. Marsha Mason is a mother who never grew up. And when they get together, they're the most mismatched roomates since "The Goodbye Girl".
Quotes:
Georgia: Let me sleep on the sofa. I love sleeping on the sofa. Beds are too big when you're alone.
Georgia: Say it like it's on the Merv Griffin show dummy!
Bartender: What's the problem?::Georgia: Do you see cigarettes? That's the problem.::Bartender: How much money did you put in?::Georgia: Twelve dollar like it says.
Georgia: Ya hadda look gorgeous today, right?
Jimmy: You're a lousy liar!::Jimmy: I am a wonderful liar! I'm only lousy when I lie to you!
Jimmy: I saw him last week at Joe Allen's. He look thin, drawn tired...::Georgia: You're lying!::Jimmy: Alright he looked gorgeous. Who cares? the man can't write his name. I've got to go.::Georgia: Was he alone?::Jimmy: He was at a big table I don't know who was with who.::Georgia: she was that pretty, huh?::Jimmy: What am I, a police reporter? She was a female Caucasian that's the best I can do. I've got to pick up that script, I'll call you later.::Georgia: I love you. Why don't we smarten up and marry each other?::Jimmy: Because you're an alcoholic and I'm gay. We'd have trouble getting our kids into a good school.
Georgia: What is that crap you're putting on your face?::Toby: It is from Vienna. It is ninety dollars a tube, do you notice you never see a pore on my face.::Georgia: I've never even seen your face. Who are you, anyway?::Toby: [looking at Jimmy]::Georgia: Who is she? Do you know who she is?::Toby: They take it away form you soon enough. Hold onto it while you can.
Toby: [as kids beat on her car] God damn them! Why do you live in this neighborhood? Why don't you move?::Georgia: Because, it only costs me $300 a month. It's a sublet from Mary Todd Lincoln.
Jimmy: O, God! I want to be a star so bad! I don't mean a little star, I want to be a big star! With three agents, and a business manager, and a press agent. And then I would fire all of them and I would hire new ones because I am such a big star! And I would make everyone pay for the 22 years I have poured into this business. I wouldn't do benefits, I wouldn't give money to charity, I would become one of the great shit heels of all time! Isn't that a wonderful dream, Georgia?
Polly: Who redid my room?::Jimmy: She hates it, I can tell.::Polly: It's a little Brady Bunch, but I can work with it.::Jimmy: The room is wonderful! Get rid of the kid!