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! trifle stale, and so it happens that "Oh, My Dear!" lacks some of the freshness and sparkle of "Oh, Boy!" and "Oh, Lady! Lady!!" Guy Bolton's book is rather more frankly than usual of the scrap variety; P. G. Wodehouse's rhymes are not so startlingly felicitous; and Louis A. Hirsch's music, though pleasant to take, has a somewhat familiar flavor. The story concerns the stock mild-and middle - aged married man who hasn't kicked over the traces since he sneaked off "to a Burton Holmes Travelogue in 1916," and who gets himself into the stock complications by inducing someone to