Memorable Comedy Movie Lines From the 1930s–1980sBy Jan Wahl—Lloyd Bridges is trying to stop a crash in the 1980 movie Airplane! It’s the kind of movie line that all of us can relate to, okay, not all of us, but me. Some movie lines just stay with us. In Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Cosmo Brown sums up Lina LaMont: “Can’t act, can’t dance, can’t sing … a triple threat.” But the most famous description ever comes from Oscar Levant: “Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood, and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.”