Daily Dialogue — January 19, 2020

Ellie Andrews: I’ll stop a car, and I won’t use my thumb!
Peter Warne: What’re you gonna do?
Ellie Andrews: It’s a system all my own.

— It Happened One Night (1934), screen play by Robert Riskin, short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hitchhiking.

Trivia: Frank Capra grew concerned when so many stars rejected his script and he turned to playwright Myles Connolly for advice. The writer thought the characters could be made more sympathetic and he made constructive suggestions, which were incorporated into the script within a week.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This has to be the greatest hitchhiking scene in all of movie history.