Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars

By Gene Shalit

Book Overview

Great Hollywood Wit rollicks with hilarious movie lines and backstage zingers-smart, tart, and (in Sir John Gielgud's case) wicked: "Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them." Julia Roberts, fashion buff: "I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping." Retiring Burt Reynolds: "You can only hold your stomach in for so many years."

Great Hollywood Wit is an unequaled cavalcade of hilarity that you'll laugh through again and again. A wonderful one-of-a-kind gift.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312282737
• ISBN13: 9780312282738
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

great reference and entertainment

this is a gift for a close friend who adores witty movie start quotes. this book is a hoot, just by glancing through the pages, it will offer some great material for my pal. If you know of someone - or yourself- who enjoys vintage movies and the great actors- this is the book for you. a great jumping off for a newbie in the realm as well.

"I DRINK TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE INTERESTING"

You will have heard some of these quips before but there are enough little known comments here to make you laugh out loud many times. If you like comments such as: "I'm not upset about my divorce from Tom Arnold. I'm only upset I'm not a widow" (Rosanne Barr about her former husband) or "They didn't release the movie; it escaped" (Sam Goldwyn) or "The T is silent, as in Harlow" said by Margot Asquith, wife of the British Prime Minister, when Jean Harlow mispernounced Asquith's first name or Oscar Levant on Phyllis Diller "I treasure every moment I do not see her" you will like this slim but amusing book. Equally amusing is Groucho Marx's series of letters to Warner Brother (producers of the movie Casablanca) attorneys regarding his intent to name a movie A Night In Casablanca.