AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by actor Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn silent era, John Gilbert even shouted "Goddamn you!" to the enemy during battle in "The Big Parade" (1925). The Production Code was ratified on March 31, 1930, and was effective for motion pictures whose filming began afterward. Thus, talkies that used "damn" include "Glorifying the American Girl" (1929), "Flight" (1929), "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929), "Hell's Angels" (1930), "The Big Trail" (1930), "The Dawn Patrol" (1930), "The Green Goddess" (1930) and "Dracula" (1931). Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for using the word "damn", in fact the MPPDA board passed an amendment to