Night Without Sleep (1952)

Eddie Forbes: You smell like a cooch dancer!

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Jed Towers: Are you the girl in 809?
Nell Forbes: Why, yes. Who's this?
Jed Towers: I'm the guy in 821. Across the court. Can I ask you a question?
Nell Forbes: I don't know. I suppose so. Are you sure you want me?
Jed Towers: Yeah. You're the one I want, alright. Are you doing anything you couldn't be doing better with somebody else?
Nell Forbes: I guess I'll have to hang up!
Jed Towers: Why? You cant get hurt on the telephone.
Nell Forbes: Who are you?
Jed Towers: I told you. The man across the way. A lonely soul.
Nell Forbes: You sound peculiar.
Jed Towers: I'm not peculiar. I'm just frustrated. I got a bottle of rye. And as I waas saying, what are you doing?
Nell Forbes: What's your name?
Jed Towers: Billy.
Nell Forbes: Oh...
Jed Towers: What's the matter? Don't you like Billy?

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Jed Towers: [Making small-talk with the hotel bartender] Seventy eight percent of the pilots in Skyway Airlines are married. Ya' see, you get married, you become a statistic.
Joe the Bartender: Yeah... Stay single, and you wind up talkin' to bartenders.

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This was Anne Bancroft's first film. It was also Marilyn Monroe's 18th film and an attempt to prove to critics that she could act.
The title credits music is re-used from Panic in the Streets.
Donna Corcoran is the only member of the cast still alive today.
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