Well, I do think it was carrying realism too far when the man put a firecracker off under my chair. That was rather a low trick.
9 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:53:30 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Not gangsters. Just a mob. You know, two's company, four's a mob.
- Quite a retrenchment. A DeMille mob scene ought to have about four thousand, shouldn't it?
- Sometimes four good actors can outshine four thousand.
- Yeah, but they can't make as much noise.
- That depends on their ammunition. You four made plenty tonight.
- Well, we're all a little shell-shocked after rehearsing under firecrackers all week.
- But wasn't that in the spirit of the Low Jinks Festival at the Bohemian Club?
- It's quite a sight, actors making fun of themselves.
- Oh, no, impossible. Actors never make fun of themselves.
- Well, I've seen it with my own eyes. I'll take you all up sometime and show you.
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