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favorite scene

posted 19 years ago by dancing_pears
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I think this is such a delightful movie. One of Cary Grant's best. (But my favorite scene doesn't involve him.) My fav scene is when prof. Lightcap is about to read his morning newspaper and thereby discover that Leopold Dilg is living in his house, and Nora dumps a plate of eggs on the newspaper to cover Dilg's face telling the professor that "it isn't his egg day." The image of two cheerful, sunny-side up fried eggs donning hat and coat is really too funny. It's like Dilg's face is made up entirely of two huge, goggling, yellow eyes. Makes me giggle every time i think of it. Also Nora screaming "no no no no no!" over again in her funny, raspy little voice. . . It's great. I love this movie.

"Abide, thou art so fair." --Faust

[–] Percivalx 12 years ago

I just finished watching this film for the first time. It certainly is delightful. I happen to love the first 20 minutes of it. It is so funny watching Jean Arthur trying to hide Cary Grant from Ronald Coleman. This is one of those films that grabs you right from the start and it delivers all the way through.

Let us be crooked but never common

[–] groucho-nc 12 years ago

I just saw it today and I thought Jean Arthur was hilarious! The chemistry with Ronald Colman and Cary Grant were so seamless and naturalistic.

I guess the best scene for me were the ones where Nora Shelley had to invent stories to Professor Lightcap inorder to cover up Leopold's presence in the house. That moment when she was caught sneaking out of the room had to require a great comic actress with perfect timing.