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
Oh, My Dear! pass himself off as someone he isn't. Then the wife of the someone he isn't turns up, and we come to the stock situation in which a man and a woman who have been but casually acquainted are assigned to occupy the same chamber. This tangle is unraveled by a company including Frederic Graham, Roy Atwell, Joseph Allen, Ivy Sawyer, Joseph Santley, Georgia Caine and Juliette Day. "I Wonder Whether," "Our City of Dreams" and "You Never Know" are the best of the song numbers. In comparison, "Oh, My Dear!" suffers chiefly by being set beside its predecessors at the