Put Some Sass in Your Step with These Daring Dames

July 19, 2010

Feeling like you need an extra surge of power? Try these awesome classic movies.

-Stage Door (1937) with Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn
“We started off on the wrong foot. Let's stay that way.”

-Now, Voyager (1942) with Betty Davis
Dr. Jasquith: I thought you said you came here to have a nervous breakdown.
Charlotte: About that, I've decided not to have one.

-I’m No Angel (1933) with Mae West
"Come up and see me sometime - any time!"

-The Lady Eve (1941) with Barbara Stanwyck
“I need him like the ax needs the turkey.”

-Desk Set (1957) with Katharine Hepburn
Ruthie Saylor: Are you sure you want this mistletoe right over the door?
Sylvia Blair: Certainly! Then if anything good drifts in we can grab him!

-All About Eve (1950) with Betty Davis
“Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”

-His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell
“Listen to me, you great big bubble-headed baboon!”

-Indiscreet (1958) with Ingrid Bergman
“I like a man with a glass in his hand.”

-Sunset Boulevard (1950) with Barbara Stanwyck
“I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small.”

-The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell
“She's got those eyes that run up and down a man like a searchlight.”

-Compiled by the Reel Sassy Critic, July 2010