Don Lockwood and Kathy Selden

Time for another one of my Favorite Onscreen Couples post! : )

Don Lockwood and Kathy Selden
(Promotional picture I know.... I couldn't find a screencap where they were both looking at the camera!)

Don: Which of my pictures have you seen?
Kathy: I don't remember. I saw one once.
Don: You saw one once?
Kathy: Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
Don: Thank you.
Kathy: Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know.... *demonstrates* Like that.
Don: You mean like what I do?
Kathy: Well, yes!

Film: Singin' in the Rain
Novel? No.
Time Period: Early 1920's
Status: In love. (Hopefully going to be married, but you can't tell by the end of the movie...)
How They Met: Don, persued by crazy fans, makes a dashing getaway and jumps into Kathy's car, scaring her.  : )
 
Don: What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?
Kathy: I'm an actress...
Don: Oh...
Kathy: ...on the stage.
Don: Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.
  Kathy: Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?
Don: You mean lofty star with humble player?
Kathy: Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?
Don: Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.
Kathy: Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...
Don: Oh, you read the fan magazines!
Kathy: I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.
Don: Really?
Kathy: Well... I buy four or five a month.
Don: Four or five...
Kathy: But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...
Don: Did you say all our pictures?
Kathy: I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.
Don: You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".
Kathy: I said some awful things that night, didn't I?
Don: No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.



This is a movie I'd recommend if you like musicals. (Well, all except one scene where Don dances with another girl. We usually just fast-forward through the entire 'Broadway Melody' song.)

~Eowyn~

Announcing...

So guess what?! I've been thinking of some of my favorite movies recently and wondering why they're my favorite. Duh! Because of the characters! Most importantly, because of the relationship between the hero and heroine. : )

Anyway, I've decided to do a blog post series on a few of my favorite onscreen couples. Well, more than a few. (I think this is going to be a long series.... lol!) I'm probably not going to do them all at once or even one after the other - even I could get tired of that! I don't know how long it's going to be... it really depends on when I stop remembering couples. : )

Please know that these are in NO particular order - I can't say that any one novel or movie is "my favorite" above all the others, so how can I possibly chose one couple?

Also, the couples are only from movies I'd recommend. (Well, let's hope that I wouldn't chose a couple that I say is one of my favorites, then tell you not to watch the movie!)

So, without further ado, my first couple...

Sir Percy Blakeney and Marguerite St Just

Marguerite: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Sir Percy.
Sir Percy: This beholder is enchanted.

Film: The Scarlet Pimpernel (specifically the 1982 version, which is, in my opinion, the best)
Novel? Yes. (Based on both the book of the same title and El Dorado)
Time period: Reign of terror, France, 1793
Status: Married
How they met: When Marguerite's brother, Armand, was in a "sticky situation," Sir Percy saved him and got Marguerite's thanks. She invited him to a party at their house. The rest, they say, is history.


Sir Percy: If I were to tell you I adore you, would you have me do so stintingly...?
Marguerite: Adore me?
Sir Percy: *takes her aside* Or would you have me declare it as I feel it – with all my heart?
Marguerite: But you can't be serious. You know nothing about me!
Sir Percy: Exactly so, which is why I yearn to know everything. You must tell me all about yourself, in every detail – but, oh, so slowly, so very slowly, so that it takes a very, very long time.
Marguerite: Well, I don't know if you're mad or-
Sir Percy: Desperately in love? Tis all the same.

Marguerite: Sometimes you're so elusive. Are you an actor, too, playing out some part in a strange charade?
Sir Percy: I've told you before, m'dear – the one thing you must never doubt is my sincerity.
Marguerite: I know behind that mask lies the true Percy Blakeney. That's a man I yearn to know.
Sir Percy: And so you shall, m'dear. All in good time.
Marguerite: How long is that?
Sir Percy: Marry me... and you have the rest of your life to find out.

Ooh, that was fun. : ) I'm going to enjoy this....

Would you guys like any more information on my couples? This is the first time I've done anything like this.

~Eowyn~

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