From Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958):
[Scottie has been balancing a cane on his fingertip. It falls and he bends forward to retrieve it.]Barbara Bel Geddes, who played Midge, died this week at the age of 82.
Scottie: Ouch! Ouch.
Midge: I thought you said no more aches or pains.
Scottie: It's this darned corset. It binds.
Midge: No three-way stretch? How very un-chic.
Scottie: Ah, you know those police department doctors. No sense of style. Well, anyway, tomorrow'll be the day.
Midge: Why? What's tomorrow?
Scottie: Tomorrow--the corset comes off tomorrow. I'll be able to scratch myself like anybody else tomorrow. I'll throw this miserable thing [the cane] out the window. I'll be a free--a free man. Midge, do you suppose many men wear corsets?
Midge: Mmm, more than you think.
Scottie: Really? Well, do you know that from personal experience, or--
Midge: Please.
Link to the New York Times obituary.
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