"If I was putting on a new shaw for Miss Show, I mean, a new show for Miss Shaw, well, I've always liked boats. I'd open on a big white battleship, with guns, they'd be white too! Then the spotlight swings to the starboard and reveals Miss Shaw. And she comes floatin' down to the main floor on a big, beautiful white cloud. And she does a dance on the guns and then for a finish they - they fire broadside."

"How do you like that? I'm even a failure at killing myself."

"Just wait till I get my hands on that Park Avenue she-wolf!"

"Kiss me, you idiot!"

"Joe, if what's runnin' through my mind is runnin' through yours, I swear I'll whip you to an inch of your life."

"Jonathan is more than a man. He's an experience, and he's habit-forming. If they could ever bottle him, he'd out-sell Ginger Ale."

"I've told you a hundred times. I don't want to win awards. Give me pictures that end with a kiss and black ink on the books."

"The story of a blonde who wanted to go places, and a brute who got her there - the hard way!"

"I took you out of the gutter . . . I can fling you back!"

"Lana Turner - Georgia Lorrison"

"Kirk Douglas - Jonathan Shields"

"Walter Pidgeon - Harry Pebbel"

"Dick Powell - James Lee Bartlow"

"Barry Sullivan - Fred Amiel"

"Gloria Grahame - Rosemary Bartlow"

"Gilbert Roland - Victor "Gaucho" Ribera"

"Leo G. Carroll - Henry Whitfield, a British director"

"Vanessa Brown - Kay Amiel, Fred's wife"

"Paul Stewart - Syd Murphy, Shield's press agent"

"Sammy White - Gus, Lorrison's over-emotional agent"

"Elaine Stewart - Lila"

"Ivan Triesault - Von Ellstein"

"[to Bartlow, about Shields] You're the first person I ever knew who began by hating him and ended up liking him. Do you always do everything backwards?"