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Paul Lukas (May 26, 1891 – August 15, 1971) was an Hungarian-born American actor. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943).
Lukas was born Pál Lukács in Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of Mária (née Zilahy) and János Lukács, an advertising executive.
Lukas made his stage debut in Budapest in 1916 and his film debut in 1917. At first, he played elegant, smooth womanizers, but increasingly he became typecast as a villain. He had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany, and Austria, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He arrived in Hollywood in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1937.
He was busy in the 1930s, appearing in such films as the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, once in The Casino Murder Case (1935).
With the wit of a gnat
And you're tit for tat
Well I'm sick of that
You little dingbat
You little dingbat
Well it's not too deep
And it's not too shallow
There's just enough room for me to wallow
Wallow
Oh my god
He grabbed my tit
Did you give him a slap?
Cuz he was lit
Did you slap him back?
Slap
Well we used to have such a great friendship
Now I'm sittin' on the battleship
The battleship
With the wit of a gnat
And you're tit for tat
Well I'm sick of that
You little dingbat
You little dingbat Yeah it's not too deep
And it's not too shallow
There's just enough room for me to wallow
Wallow
Yeah you can't finish but you can dish out the shit
And you can tie a knot and it held till you will fall
Maybe a little more than you thought
Maybe a little more than you thought
Yeah you can't finish but you can dish out the shit
And you can tie a knot and it held till you will fall
Maybe a little more than you thought
I used to think about thoughts
And I thought that you might think
But you ran the table
And you scratched on the eight
But you ran the table
And you scratched on the eight
You sank my battleship