Daily Dialogue — January 6, 2020

Daddy Warbucks: You spend your evenings in the shanties.
Miss Hannigan: You had me followed.
Daddy Warbucks: Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin.
Miss Hannigan: Bronchitism.
Daddy Warbucks: And here you’re dancing in your scanties,
Miss Hannigan: Great gams.
Daddy Warbucks: With some old geezer called Little Caeser,
Miss Hannigan: He’s an uncle.
Daddy Warbucks: You lock the orphans in the closet.Miss Hannigan: They love it!
Daddy Warbucks: You hock their Christmas souvenirs.
Miss Hannigan: Drink?
Daddy Warbucks: You steal the funds you should deposit.
Miss Hannigan: It’s fresh.
Daddy Warbucks: You make them grovel while you buy laveleers.

— Annie (1982), screenplay by Carol Sobieski, book by Thomas Meehan, play by Martin Charnin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Drunk. Today’s suggestion by Marcos Padilla.

Trivia: In the play, Grace Farrell brought the adoption papers to the orphanage. After the movie script had Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks do it, Carol Burnett and Albert Finney lobbied the songwriters for a song to sing together to flesh out the only meeting between Warbucks and Hannigan. Their duet, “Sign,” was written in two days.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett) is perpetually inebriated in Annie including this scene with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney). The scene is a comic tour de force by Burnett.