Diligence pays off; credit to Billy Wilder and SRM:
The last line of this dialog between Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown at the end of SOME LIKE IT HOT.
Brown: l called Mama. She was so happy, she cried.
She wants you to have her wedding gown. It’s white lace.
Lemmon: Osgood, l can’t get married in your mother’s dress.
She and l, we are not built the same way.
Brown: – We can have it altered.
Lemmon: Osgood, I’m gonna level with you. We can’t get married at all.
Brown: Why not?
Lemmon: Well.
ln the first place, I’m not a natural blonde.
Brown: Doesn’t matter.
Lemmon: l smoke. l smoke all the time.
Brown: l don’t care.
Lemmon: l have a terrible past. For three years I’ve been living with a saxophone player.
Brown: l forgive you.
Lemmon: l can never have children.
Brown: We can adopt some.
Lemmon:- You don’t understand, Osgood.
– I’m a man.
Brown: Well,
nobody’s perfect.