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"Tommy Dorsey — himself"
"Connie and Larry, you were really diggin' with a dignified dialogue tonight."
"You know, something tells me that your gold mine and my gold mine ought to get together."
"M-G-M's Madcap Musical Comedy!"
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Joy Show!"
"Red Does It Again!"
"Red Skelton — Joseph Rivington Renolds"
"Eleanor Powell — Constance Shaw"
"Richard Ainley — Larry West"
"Patricia Dane — Suretta Brenton"
"Sam Levene — Ed Jackson"
"Jimmy Dorsey — Jimmy Dorsey"
"Thurston Hall — Kenneth Lawlor"
"Lena Horne — Lena Horne"
"Hazel Scott — Hazel Scott"
"John Hodiak — Roy Hartwood"
"Butterfly McQueen — Annette"
"Charles Judels — Stage Manager"
"Lionel Braham — Mr. Gillingham"
"I press men's pants. But this is the slack season."
"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?"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.