Wisecracks: Great Lines from the Classic Hollywood Era

by RosemarieJarski (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.97

  Scriptwriters from Raymond Chandler to S.J. Perelman penned great linesfor everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Groucho Marx. It was the classic era of comedy with acts like Abbot and Costello, Hope and Crosby, the Marx brothers, Mae West, W.C. Fields, and the great screwball acts like Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Straight out of the American vaudeville tradition, it was the wisecracking that powered these comedies along. The wisecrack being that sharp comeback or reposte that left those around for dead. Rosemarie Jarski's selection mixes all the classic Hollywood lines with little known gems to leave your dinner guests for dead as you wisecrack like the best of them.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  Scriptwriters from Raymond Chandler to S.J. Perelman penned lines for everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Groucho Marx. It was the era of comedy with acts like Abbot and Costello, Hope and Crosby, the Marx Brothers, Mae West and W.C. Fields, and the double acts like Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. This collection mixes classic Hollywood lines with little-known wisecracks.