The Tunnel of Love (1958)

August 'Augie' Poole: Maybe I'd better get a regular job, and forget about art.
Isolde Poole: Never! Never to my dying day will I let you settle for anything less than you want to be.
Isolde Poole: If Van Gogh had been married to a woman like you, he'd still have both his ears.

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Isolde Poole: I bought a dress at Bonwits. A lovely watermelon shantung.
August 'Augie' Poole: Fine. Now you've got something fit to wear into Saks.

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August 'Augie' Poole: You know, Miss Novick, uh, it's hard to think of you as a man of science.
Estelle Novick: I run into that all the time.
August 'Augie' Poole: I'll bet.
Estelle Novick: Last year I was with a team of anthropologists, and we made a study of sexual patterns in New Guinea.
August 'Augie' Poole: Yeah, I guess there's a lot of that going on there, too.

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Johnny Carson replaced Tom Ewell in the original Broadway production.
Doris Day wrote that her manager/husband Martin Melcher was terribly concerned over the box-office failure of this film and It Happened to Jane. Their failures caused Day to drop out of the Top Ten Box Office Stars. Day and Melcher had words about him hustling her into almost any film for the money instead of waiting to find good scripts that would have produced better results.
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