Over-Exposed (1956)
Cleo Moore: Lila Crane
Photos
Quotes
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Lila Crane : [to her rival photo girl] I could make more money for Les snapping pictures than you could trapping furs in a checkroom.
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Lila Crane : I couldn't get anyone up there to look at my pictures even upside down. And they're good.
Russell Bassett : Yeah. They're very good.
Lila Crane : So.
Russell Bassett : So what you need is a hot news shot. Love crazed killer runs amok. Man attempts suicide leap from the empire State.
Lila Crane : Or me diving in the nude from Brooklyn Bridge.
Russell Bassett : Well that really would be a hot news shot. Let me know where you live. Something might turn up.
Lila Crane : I'm sure. You would. Don't call me, I'll call you.
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Lily Krenshka : Let go of me! I don't like being hustled by the fat hands of the law! I didn't do anything wrong.
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Lily Krenshka : One more bum rap for Lily Krenshka.
Max West : Since when has life been noted for its fairness.
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Max West : I could you use you for posing.
Lily Krenshka : What kind?
Max West : Not that kind. Bathing suit art. Strictly for tourists. Pays four dollars an hour.
Lily Krenshka : Just for wearing a bathing suit?
Max West : No. For lookin' as if you're never intendin' to swim in it. Try one of those on for size.
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Lily Krenshka : It's a pretty good racket for a dame.
Max West : It isn't a racket. It's hard work. It takes years of experience.
Lily Krenshka : And sex is no handicap.
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Max West : It can only see what you want it to see. It can even change that slum where you were raised by exposing it. Don't forget that - Lila.
Lily Krenshka : Lila?
Max West : Lila Crane. More elegant than Lily Krenshka. Lila Crane. It's a fine ring: Photos by Lila.
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Max West : Lily, did you ever hear of hellfire?
Lily Krenshka : Hear about it? I lived it!
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Russell Bassett : Come on.
Lila Crane : Where are you going?
Russell Bassett : You want to use a darkroom don't you?
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Lila Crane : I guess I better hunt up another place.
Russell Bassett : Well, there's my hotel.
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Jasan's Studio Photographer : You need a few pointers. I tell you what, come around tonight around closing time. I'll - show you the angles.
Lila Crane : Don't look now, mister, but your angles are showing!
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Renee : Some night, one of these guys you promise to meet is gonna give you a rough time. Oh, I'd like to see that.
Lila Crane : Why don't you promise to meet some of them? Or doesn't anybody ask?
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Russell Bassett : If you be a good girl I'll buy you breakfast in the morning.
Lila Crane : I'll be good.
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Les Bauer : You're fired, as of now.
Renee : Glad to! Another girl can't make a living with this - beetle around!
[exits]
Lila Crane : Did you hear what she called me? I'm sorry, Les.
Les Bauer : Oh, you don't think I blame you. Why, you've got nothing in common with that kind. Nothing whatsoever.
Lila Crane : Its just that there's so much jealousy when girls work together.
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Lila Crane : Arm higher. Head back. Open your eyes. Wet your lips. Hold it. Jump, Freddy.
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Roy Carver : People can get their throats cut for that sort of double-cross.
Lila Crane : Mine's still in tact.
Roy Carver : So, keep it that way.
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Coco Fields : You may work out. Naturally, you'll look entirely different when I get through selecting your wardrobe.
Lila Crane : I have an evening gown.
Coco Fields : Come back in an hour. I have no faith whatever in your taste.
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Lila Crane : Where there's money, there's Lila. Green becomes me.
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Coco Fields : What do you want?
Lila Crane : I'm Lila Crane.
Coco Fields : Oh, yes. You're the girl my backers have recommended to me. You're sure you know your business?
Lila Crane : I'm a good photographer, Mr. Fields. I do my own developing, retouching. I have special lens and I can shoot in color.
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Lila Crane : I was in the midst of doing an advertising layout for 'Dainty Girl Lingerie'.
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Lila Crane : I'm just a working girl like any other, you know.
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Lila Crane : Isn't all this wonderful. I'm going to be on Shirley Thomas' "Phone Call to a Personality" in 20 minutes. And it's the most important daytime show in New York. Shirley hates my incise; but, she's been angling for a TV evening spot from the Club Coco and she knows how I stand with Coco, so...
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Max West : What are you doing Lila?
Lila Crane : Freezing a hot potato.
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Russell Bassett : Can you cook?
Lila Crane : Maybe with a can opener.
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Lila Crane : [on the phone] I think it would be better if we met at a public place, don't you? Say, the 46th Street Automat?
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Roy Carver : Look, honey. Let's not trip over our ethics.
Lila Crane : Good night, Roy. The picture's not for sale.
Roy Carver : Have all those flash bulbs gone to your head? Do you know what that picture's worth?