The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Barry Sullivan: Fred Amiel

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Quotes 

• Jonathan : Look. Put five men dressed like cats on the screen, what do they look like?

  Fred : Like five men dressed like cats.

• Fred : [after Jonathan's father dies broke and disgraced]  Are you going to change your name?

  Jonathan : Change it? I'm gonna ram the name of Shields down their throats!

• Fred : Jonathan is more than a man, he's an experience. And he's habit-forming. If they could ever bottle him, he'd outsell ginger ale.

• Jonathan : When an audience pays to see a picture like this, what are they paying for?

  Fred : To get the pants scared off of 'em.

  Jonathan : And what scares the human race more than any other single thing?

  [crosses to wall switch and turns out the light] 

  Fred : The dark!

  Jonathan : Of course. And why? Because the dark has a life of its own. In the dark, all sorts of things come alive.

  Fred : Suppose... suppose we never do show the cat men. Is that what you're thinking.

  Jonathan : Exactly.

  Fred : No cat men!