Two for the Seesaw (1962)

Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Pick up the phone if you're so strong.
Jerry Ryan: Do you want me to?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Sure I want you to. I don't know where I stand. I could scream my head off and nobody comes. Who can I count on besides me?
Jerry Ryan: Me!
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Yeah. Lean on you and I'll fall in that big hole, someplace in Nevada!

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Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Listen, Jerry, I'm the one in a trap. You move in with me, I'll... I'll nudja you into marrying me, I know I will. And then what'll I have? I don't wanna have to spend the rest of my life begging. It's not good enough for me, Jerry. Not any more. I want somebody who'll feel about me... what you said about her before. What do you say we give each other the gate, huh?
Jerry Ryan: For my sake? So I can go back?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: No. Whether you go or stay. To tell you the God's honest truth, Jerry, I didn't take one free breath since that hemorrhage. I wanna get outta here so I can breathe.

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Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Is it OK enough to?
Jerry Ryan: Is what OK enough to?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Your leg?
Jerry Ryan: It may have affected my head!

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The original Broadway production of "Two for the Seesaw" by William Gibson opened at the Booth Theater in New York on January 16, 1958, ran for 750 performances and was nominated for the 1958 Tony Award for the Best Play.
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman were both set to do this film but when Taylor became ill during the early filming of Cleopatra, Newman was able to do The Hustler instead.
Based on the Broadway play, which starred Anne Bancroft and Henry Fonda.
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