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The Oscar (film) Quotes

The Oscar (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . The Oscar ended its run in 1970.

It features Clarence Greene as producer, Percy Faith in charge of musical score, and Joseph Ruttenberg as head of cinematography.

The Oscar (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Oscar (film) is 119 minutes long. The Oscar (film) is distributed by Embassy Pictures (US).

The cast includes: Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly, Stephen Boyd as Frankie, Elke Sommer as Kay Bergdahl, Stephen Boyd as Frankie Fane, Elke Sommer as Kay, Broderick Crawford as Sheriff, Ed Begley as Grobard, Jill St. John as Laurel Scott, Eleanor Parker as Sophie Cantaro, Jack Soo as Sam, Joseph Cotten as Kenneth Regan, Ernest Borgnine as Barney Yale, and Edie Adams as Trina Yale.

The Oscar (film) Quotes

Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly

  • (Tony Bennett) "He was living in a posh place just off the Strip. It was a far cry from the motels we used to crawl into. It had hot and cold running everything."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Frankie found himself married, but, uh, he still couldn't change his feelings about women. So his only avenue was escape. He employed the slimy services of the Hymie Kelly broad-procuring agency. I was running out of numbers. He used 'em like Kleenex. Once, and threw 'em away."
  • (Tony Bennett) "You finally made it, Frankie. Oscar night. And here you sit, on top of a glass mountain called "success." You're one of the chosen five, and the whole town's holding its breath to see who won it. It's been quite a climb, hasn't it, Frankie? Down at the bottom, scuffling for dimes in those smokers, all the way to the top. Magic Hollywood. Ever think about it? I do, friend Frankie, I do --"
  • (Tony Bennett) "But Frankie couldn't face reality because he'd lost touch with it."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Where've you been? They told me you left the network three hours ago."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "I took a drive."
  • (Tony Bennett) "The phones haven't stopped. While you were out playing the part of the Wandering Gentile everyone who wouldn't look our way last week is calling to proclaim buddyhood."
  • (Tony Bennett) "You must be suffering from oxygen starvation."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Man, he wanted to swallow Hollywood like a cat with a canary. And he did it. The parts got bigger, and Frankie was hooked. Like a junkie shooting pure quicksilver into his veins, Frankie got turned on by the wildest narcotic known to man: success. The parts got bigger and bigger -- Frankie got hungrier and hungrier."
  • (Tony Bennett) "She died on the table, ya bastard. She died under the knife. She miscarried."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "What's that got to do with me?"
  • (Tony Bennett) "It was your baby."

Jill St. John as Laurel Scott

  • (Jill St. John) "Ever since we hit this town you've been living off me. If you think I'm gonna work my tail off so you can run around with the Village chicks -- oh, stop spreading the pollen around, Frankie, or else."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Or else what? You'll chop my allowance? You'll turn me out of your warm bed? You're nothin', that's what. So can that "or else" crap."
  • (Jill St. John) "I've gotta go to work. But when I come back you and me are gonna have a talk."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Sure. You'll like talking to yourself."

Stephen Boyd as Frankie

  • (Stephen Boyd) "Speaking of broads, whatever happened to Laurel?"
  • (Tony Bennett) "I married her."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Oh yeah? How is she?"
  • (Tony Bennett) "She died."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "What'd you say?"
  • (Tony Bennett) "I said she died."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Don't lecture me, you've got to save me, Kappy."
  • (Unnamed) "What am I, the second coming of the messiah? I'm an agent. There's just so much I can do."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "You a tourist or a native?"
  • (Elke Sommer) "Take one from column A and two from column B, you get an egg roll either way."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "I have a feeling I'm not gonna get anywhere with you."
  • (Elke Sommer) "All depends, where you'd like to get."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Mostly I'd like to get alone with you somewhere."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "You know, I think you go a little soft in the gourd early in the morning."
  • (Eleanor Parker) "Look at me when you talk to me. I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slap a lid on and walk away."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "I never said anything about creaming Barney Yale."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Birdseed."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "When you tell it straight you don't do any polka, do you."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Wha -- Why do I -- Why do I always try to destroy the people I love?"
  • (Stephen Boyd) "So just go sliding back in there and tell 'em game called on account of Oscar. That's right. Oscar."

Elke Sommer as Kay

  • (Elke Sommer) "Don't you understand how you embarrassed me in there? Who do you think you are, Frankie, just who do you think you are?"
  • (Stephen Boyd) "I'm me. And that's plenty good enough."
  • (Elke Sommer) "Bye Frankie. And I hope the Oscar keeps you warm on cold nights."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Yeah, go on and run. You're too stupid to understand."
  • (Elke Sommer) "Do you know what I do, Hymie? I count nights. I found a Freudian substitute for counting sheep. I count empty nights."
  • (Elke Sommer) "If a woman doesn't treasure herself, how can a man treasure her?"
  • (Stephen Boyd) "You make my head hurt with all that poetry."
  • (Elke Sommer) "I think you try awfully hard not to understand people."
  • (Elke Sommer) "You're wasting your time. I'm not the kind of woman who uses sex as a release or, or even as a weapon."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "You always talk like that?"
  • (Elke Sommer) "I try."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Then do me a favor, will ya, try droppin' it with me, I'm not that smart. You free thinkers confuse me."
  • (Elke Sommer) "Let me put it this way. I think I have more to offer than just my body."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Now I understand."
  • (Elke Sommer) "I am the end result of everything I've ever learned, all I ever hope to be, and all the experiences I've ever had."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "How many experiences have you had?"
  • (Elke Sommer) "None. But when the right time comes I'll be special for some man. So it's worth waiting for."
  • (Elke Sommer) "You represent everything I loathe, Frankie."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "You mean everything you love."

Jack Soo as Sam

  • (Jack Soo) "He's in a funky mood today."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Well, you know that pattern, every time he starts a new picture, snarly Fane, the boy-faced dog."
  • (Jack Soo) "Miss Cheryl Barker. Butter would melt in her mouth."
  • (Tony Bennett) "Why not? She's got a hot mouth."

Edie Adams as Trina Yale

  • (Edie Adams) "Figured we'd get hammered together and wrestle around on the couch for a while?"
  • (Stephen Boyd) "How 'bout that."

Ed Begley as Grobard

  • (Ed Begley) "You got a pretty feisty mouth."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "And you got a glass head, I can see right through it. It's how I know you're stupid."

Joseph Cotten as Kenneth Regan

  • (Joseph Cotten) "These are exhibitors' reports, they speak very clearly and very loudly. They say do not send any more Frank Fane product. Send botulism or typhus, don't send Fain."

Eleanor Parker as Sophie Cantaro

  • (Eleanor Parker) "I want him to be my discovery, it's very important to me."
  • (Unnamed) "Is it -- is it possible he's too important?"
  • (Unnamed) "So. We take off the clown's happy face and see tears underneath."
  • (Eleanor Parker) "Don't, Kappy."
  • (Unnamed) "You leave a man's career like a bag of broken glass, and you say, "Don't, Kappy"?"
  • (Eleanor Parker) "I don't know why I keep expecting you to act like other men when you're not -- you're another kind of machine entirely. You bleed, you cry --"
  • (Stephen Boyd) "No, Sophie. I don't care about anything that much."

Broderick Crawford as Sheriff

  • (Broderick Crawford) "Hymie Kelly. Where'd ya get the name Kelly, Hymie ?"
  • (Tony Bennett) "From my father, Michael Kelly. And he got it from his father, Timothy Kelly. And my mother's name was Sadie Rabinowitz, any more questions?"

Ernest Borgnine as Barney Yale

  • (Ernest Borgnine) "Hey, uh, Mr. Fane, you're a pretty chilly item. I can't figure you out."
  • (Stephen Boyd) "Yeah. How 'bout that."

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