Robert Seigel of ATC just interviewed Eva Marie Saint and her husband Jeffrey Harden about the death of their friend Ernest Lehman. Lehman was a screenwriter, probably best known to the public for “North by Northwest.” I loved that movie; still do. The scenes on Mt. Rushmore were amazing, but the one that’s almost always shown is Cary Grant running through a wheat/corn/whatever field with a cropduster after him. The dialogue was great. Sample:
Eve Kendall: I’m a big girl.
Roger Thornhill: Yeah, and in all the right places, too.
or:
Roger Thornhill: How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
Eve Kendall: Lucky, I guess.
NYT obituary.
Hollywood Reporter obituary.