Daily Dialogue — May 15, 2019

Kathy: You keep away from me! Just because you’re a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don’t you touch me!
Don Lockwood: Fear not, sweet lady! I will not molest you. I am but a humble jester, and you? You are too far above me!

He gets out of the car and closes the door on his coat tails.

Don Lockwood: Farewell, Ethel Barrymore! I must tear myself from your side!

Don tears his coat. Kathy guffaws as Don slumps away.

— Singin’ in the Rain (1952), story by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Meet Cute.

Trivia: The script was written after the songs, and so the writers had to generate a plot into which the songs would fit.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelley) escapes overenthusiastic fans by jumping into the car of Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) in this classic meet cute scene.