They sold flowers, cleaned teeth, but in which movies? Film life isn't just lolling on golden beaches and rushing through darkened streets evading capture. In some films people actually work. American movies 1920 - 1990
In The Jerk (1979) Steve Martin advertised, "For $1 I'll guess your weight, your height or your sex."
"We make a living feeding bugs to dead people," is how John Glover explained his business in Ed and His Dead Mother (1993) Robin Williams bragged, "I'm God's janitor," in 1991's The Fisher King.
Using these movie lines about a character's job, name the film.
1. "I'm a chanteuse! That's why I call myself Cherie!" (Marilyn Monroe, 1956)
2. "I work on the 19th floor, ordinary policy department, premium accounting division, section W, desk number 861." (Jack Lemmon, 1960)
3. "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself." (Audrey Hepburn, 1964)
4. "I'm a puppeteer." (John Cusack, 1999)
5. "Delbert McClintock, Infestation Management." (John Goodman, 1990)
6. "I race cars, I play tennis, I fondle women, but I have weekends off and I'm my own boss." (Dudley Moore, 1981)
7. "I'm late for the robbery! They can't start without me. I'm the leader!" (Woody Allen, 1969)
8. "I'm only a poor corrupt official." (Claude Rains, 1942)
9. "I do half my work in limos. I write for People Magazine." (Jeff Goldblum, 1983)
10. "I may be a prostitute but I am not promiscuous!" (Barbra Streisand, 1970)
11. "Who'd you think I was anyway? A guy that walked into a good lookin' dame's living room and says 'Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands - you got one that's been around too long?'" (Fred MacMurray, 1944)
12. "I was a stand-up tomato! Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway!" (Dustin Hoffman, 1982)
13. "In this job you only meet married men. I suppose all the single ones have good teeth." (Ingrid Bergman, 1969)
14. "Do you suggest that I, president of Huxley College, go into a speakeasy without even giving me the address?" (Groucho Marx, 1932)