Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

Eve Arden: Lily Martin

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Quotes 

• Tracy Holland : I shall never forget, there were twenty four curtain calls.

  Lily Martin : Twenty two curtain calls, you said last time.

  Tracy Holland : Later, Mr Gould came back to my dressing room...

  Lily Martin : Mr Astor, wasn't it?

  Tracy Holland : ...and asked me to give a private performance of Hamlet at his estate. 'No, Mr Astor' I said. 'My art is for the world to see not for the few. I am not in the roll of the common men' - Henry IV Act 3 Scene I.

  Lily Martin : Tracy...

  Tracy Holland : It was then that I decided to sacrifice my personal interest and bring great theater to this western wilderness

  [the coach goes over a bump, Tracy bangs his head] 

  Tracy Holland : Careful up there!

  stagecoach driver : Sorry Mr Holland, we're in a rut.

  Lily Martin : He can say that again.

  Tracy Holland : Now let me see, where was I? Oh, yes. I must bestride the narrow world like a colossus - Julius Caesar Act I Scene 2.

  Lily Martin : Tracy...

  Tracy Holland : Well?

  Lily Martin : I've got news for you. It never happened.

  Tracy Holland : Madame, you dare to doubt my word? I who have played before the crowned heads of Europe? You attack my veracity?

  Lily Martin : Well, that's one way of putting it.

  Tracy Holland : Blow, blow thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as woman's ingratitude!