Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Millard Mitchell: R.F. Simpson

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• Cosmo Brown : Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony.

  R.F. Simpson : You're not out of job, we're putting you in as head of our new music department.

  Cosmo Brown : Oh, thanks, R.F.! At last I can stop suffering and write that symphony.

• R.F. Simpson : Don, it'll be a sensation! "Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!"

  Lina Lamont : [with a voice to peel paint]  Well of *course* we talk. Don't everybody?

• Lina Lamont : [after demanding Kathy Selden continue as her voice double and not be given bigger parts]  After all, I'm still more important to the studio than she is.

  R.F. Simpson : Lina, I wouldn't do that to her in a million years. Why, you'd be taking her career away from her. People just don't do things like that.

  Lina Lamont : People? I ain't "people"! I am a...

  [reads from newspaper] 

  Lina Lamont : "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament." It says so...

  [hands newspaper to R.F] 

  Lina Lamont : right there.

• [after Cosmo gives a good idea] 

  R.F. Simpson : Cosmo, remind me to give you a raise.

  [turns around] 

  Cosmo Brown : Oh, R.F.

  R.F. Simpson : Yes?

  Cosmo Brown : Give me a raise.

• [after the demonstration of a talking picture] 

  R.F. Simpson : What do you think of it, Dexter?

  Rosco : It'll never amount to a thing.

  Olga Mara : [with heavy, snotty accent]  Its vulgar!

  Cosmo Brown : That's what they said about the horseless carriage.

• R.F. Simpson : Lina, you were gorgeous!

  Cosmo Brown : Yeah, Lina, you looked pretty good for a girl.

• Rosco : [after seeing the film screw-up]  The sound, its out of synchronization!

  R.F. Simpson : [irritated]  Well tell them to fix it!

  Rosco : [while getting up]  Yes sir, fix it!

• Rosco : [after a take]  We're really rolling, Mr. Simpson.

  R.F. Simpson : Well, you can stop rolling at once.

  Rosco : What?

  R.F. Simpson : Don, Lina.

  Rosco : Ok, everybody save it!

  R.F. Simpson : Save it? Tell them to go home. We're shutting down for a few weeks.

  Rosco : What?

  R.F. Simpson : Well, don't just stand there. Tell them!

  Rosco : Everybody go until further notice! What is it?

• Don Lockwood : Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.

  R.F. Simpson : That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.

• Rosco : It's just a freak!

  R.F. Simpson : Yeah, what a freak. We should have such a freak at this studio.

• R.F. Simpson : Lina, did you send this stuff out?

  Lina Lamont : I gave an exclusive story to every paper in town.

• R.F. Simpson : I can't quite visualise it, I'd have to see it on film.

• Don Lockwood : What's the matter R.F.?

  R.F. Simpson : 'The Jazz Singer', that's whats the matter, 'The Jazz Singer'.

  Cosmo Brown : [singing]  Oh, my darling, little Mammy, Down in Alabamy...

• Rosco : Now, wait a second Mr. Simpson, talking pictures! You should wait...

  R.F. Simpson : Every studio is jumping on the bandwagon, Dexter. All the theaters are putting in sound equipment. We don't want to be left out of it.

  Don Lockwood : We don't know anything about this gadget.

  R.F. Simpson : What do you have to know? Its a picture. You do what you always did. Just add talking to it.