Replied Rita Hayworth, “Oh yes you do, lover.” “I don’t have to listen to you talk like that,” said Everett Sloane in Lady from Shanghai. But let’s not get sticky about it.” More than 150 films are represented by 300-plus one-liners and brief dialogue exchanges the whole is enhanced with movie stills and posters. But don’t get any ideas – I ain’t no lady.” Anne Blyth in Mildred Pierce: “I love you too, Mother. There was Richard Widmark in The Street With No Name: “You open that window again, I’ll throw you out of it.” Myrna Dell in Nocturne: “He was a lady-killer. “Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.” Bogart was by no means the only actor talking tough and cracking wise in Hollywood’s classic crime films. Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films, by Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa (Chronicle Books, $14.95): “My, my,” quipped Humphrey Bogart as private eye Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. As Clint Eastwood said when he was named 1992’s Best Director: “This is pretty good, this is all right.” Beginning with the first presentation in 1927 and continuing up through last year’s March ceremony, the book dishes quotes, gossip, lists and memorable moments in exhaustive detail.
You get plenty of all kinds of trivia in the 10th-anniversary edition of this fulsome, often funny, compendium/companion to the Academy Awards. And then there is trivia: Rack of lamb with ginger sauce was served at the 1995 nominees’ luncheon. Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards, by Mason Wiley and Damien Bona (Ballantine, $23): There is trivia: Peter Finch was the first actor to win an Oscar posthumously. If you’re mad about the movies, these new paperbacks are for you:
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