Best Silver Screen Smoker

It's like she believes she's sucking in a little bit of magical youth with every puff.

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Bette Davis, hands down!

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ooo Also, Anne Bancroft.

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thanks, rath, that story made me feel all warm and fuzzy! i didn't think i could like betty bacall any more than i already do but you managed to make me like her more!!

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Jerry takes a deep and meaningful drag on his cigarette, crosses to the window and says...

"Shall we just have a cigarette on it?"

Charlotte moves toward Jerry, takes the cigarette he has lit for her, inhales deeply and says (with tears in her eyes):

"If we work hard to protect that little strip of territory between us....(etc, etc)"

Jerry, eyes filled with tears, exhales and asks:

"But will you be happy, Charlotte?"

Charlotte, fighting back tears and acrid cigarette smoke:

"Oh Jerry, Let's not ask for the moon.....we have the stars"


This movie was one of the best examples of the use of cigarettes as a third character. The character here being sex, of course.

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HE: Do you smoke after sex?

SHE: I don't know -- I never looked.

rock hudson.













think about it.

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I think Barbara Stanwyck gives Bette a run for her money; and, may beat her in the smoking department. CLASH BY NIGHT is a good example of Stanwyck's smoking skills.

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