In Joseph L.Mankiewicz's 1950 film All About Eve, a huffy Thelma Ritter rebuffs a slight from some character who belittles her career as a vaudevillian: "I closed the first half for eleven years, and you know it!" Virtually no one alive understands this line any more. It means that the character once enjoyed the second [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:56AM on February 14, 2013