On this Oscar day, you guys probably won’t have time to track down the flash cards compiled by Turner Classic Movies and Chronicle Books. The “Famous Pick-Up Lines” cards ($12.95) have 30 classics from filmdom. So here are a few you can try before tonight’s final acceptance speech. Some, no doubt, still work like a charm. Others, well, you decide:
Clark Gable to Jean Harlow in “Red Dust”: “Mind if I get drunk with you?”
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John Gilbert to Greta Garbo in “Flesh and the Devil”: “You know, when you blow out the match, it’s an invitation to kiss you.”
Robert Taylor to Lana Turner in “Johnny Eager”: “Oh, now don’t get ordinary on me. I get tired of ordinary dames. And I don’t want to get tired of you.”
Loretta Young to Lyle Talbot in “She Had to Say Yes”: “I hate being pawed.” His reply? “Ah, but then maybe you’ve never been pawed properly.”
Then again, some lines are truly timeless: Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in “A Day at the Races”: “Marry me, and I’ll never look at another horse.”
Ah, amore.