Out of the mouths of reel librarians… Laugh, cry, sigh, enjoy!
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969):
This is a library. Not a fun fair!
Isla Cameron as Miss McKenzie (school librarian)
Love Story (1970):
You have your own library, preppy.
Ali MacGraw as Jenny Cavalleri (student library assistant)
Pump Up the Volume (1990):
Now you’re in trouble. You owe 25 cents.
Samantha Mathis as Nora Diniro (student library assistant)
The Mummy (1998):
Look, I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or a gun fighter… But I am proud of what I am. I… am a librarian!
Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan (Egyptologist librarian)
[then falls over drunk]
The Philadelphia Story (1940):
What does thee wish?
Hilda Plowright as Quaker Librarian (public librarian)
Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002):
If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist!
Alethea McGrath as Jocasta Nu (archives librarian)
Party Girl (1995):
He’s not a dick, he’s a patron.
Sasha von Scherler as Judy Lindendorf (public librarian)
Sources used:
- Love Story. Dir. Arthur Hiller. Perf. Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland. Paramount, 1970.
- The Mummy. Dir. Stephen Sommers. Perf. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo. Universal, 1999.
- Party Girl. Dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Perf. Parker Posey, Sasha von Scherler, Guillermo Diaz, Liev Schreiber. First Look, 1995.
- The Philadelphia Story. Dir. George Cukor. Perf. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young. MGM, 1940.
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Dir. Ronald Neame. Perf. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. 20th Century Fox, 1969.
- Pump Up the Volume. Dir. Allan Moyle. Perf. Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Jeff Chamberlain. New Line Cinema, 1992.
- Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson. 20th Century Fox, 2002.
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