What movie did the quote "Tennis anyone?" originate from?

Hi Perpetualmover?

What movie did the quote "Tennis anyone?" originate from?

The quote ?Tennis Anyone??  is from the movie Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.


Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat 
Universal Pictures 
Directed by Bo Welch. 
Starring: Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin
and Sean Hayes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312528/


 
The cat says  "Tennis Anyone?" to Sally (Dakota Fanning) and Conrad
(Spencer Breslin). They are upset at The Cat (Mike Myers) for
destroying their house.
 
"Tennis Anyone?"  -- Sally (Dakota Fanning) and Conrad (Spencer
Breslin) are upset at The Cat (Mike Myers) for destroying their house.
http://www.citimall.com/movie/seuss/


You may view the exact clip where the cat says ?Tennis Anyone?? at
this direct link.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/clips/1808411847/1808525058/?http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/launch?lid=wmv-300-p.1242031-120045,rnv-56-p.1242026-120045,rnv-100-p.1242027-120045,rnv-300-p.1242028-120045,wmv-100-p.1242030-120045,wmv-56-p.1242029-120045&p=movies&f=1808411847&.spid=1808525058&.dist=Universal%20Pictures&type=c

Or use this tiny URL
http://tinyurl.com/2sc2m

Or choose the link for Clip 9 - 'Tennis Anyone?' here
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/d/catinhat.php


The clip is available at this link as well
http://www.empiremovies.com/movies/2003/the_cat_in_the_hat.shtml


You may pre-order the video at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001AW0AC/qid=1077901179/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-3737828-5692939?v=glance&s=video



Search criteria:
"Tennis anyone?" movie quote OR quotation
"Tennis anyone?" cat in the hat

I hope you find this helpful! If anything is unclear with my answer,
please ask for clarification.

Best regards,
Bobbie7-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by perpetualmover-ga on 27 Feb 2004 09:24 PST

I am not sure that this is the origional movie that this came up
in...are there any movies pre-dating the cat in the hat that had this
quote?

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 27 Feb 2004 09:53 PST

Thank you for your clarification.

I'll do additional research and see what I can discover.

--Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 27 Feb 2004 10:18 PST

Dear Perpetualmover,

A Quote From Humphrey Bogart

?Anyone for tennis? as a catchphrase typifies the kind of drawing-room
comedies in which someone stepped in through the French windows,
lightly swinging a racket; surprisingly (given his later tough-guy
image) it was once much associated with Humphrey Bogart, although it
may have originated with George Bernard Shaw. (Misalliance, 1914, has
the question, 'Anybody on for a game of tennis?'.?

Source: Ask Oxford
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/bogart/

?Bogart was in 21 Broadway productions between 1922 - 1935 . He played
callow juveniles, or the romantic second lead in drawing room
comedies. The legend persists that he was the first actor to say
"Tennis, anyone?" on stage. ?

Source: Ask Oxford
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/bogart/

Many thanks Voila-ga and Bryan for pointing me in the right direction.


"Anyone for tennis?" 
?For many years it was rumoured that Humphrey Bogart's first words as
an actor were "Tennis anyone?" although he denied it. In 1910 George
Bernard Shaw's play "Misalliance" contained the line "Anybody on for a
game of tennis?". The origins of this catchphrase are a little
obscure.?

Source: The 20th Century Museum
http://www.dover-web.co.uk/20thcentury/catchphrases.asp


In "Misalliance" by George Bernard Shaw

JOHNNY says
[intercepting his father?s reply by coming out of the swing and taking the floor]
Leave it at that. That?s good sense. Anybody on for a game of tennis?
http://www.toad.net/~centerstage/ns_misalliance.pdf


"Anyone for tennis?" is believed to have come from George Bernard
Shaw's Misalliance in 1914.

Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/204699.stm

I hope this is what you?re looking for.

Sincerely,
Bobbie7

Sorry, Bobbie

Perpetualmover is almost correct.

The original expression was 'Anyone for Tennis?' and this was
commonplace during the Thirties, if not earlier.

It was such a standard entrance remark in the theatre and it soon
became a cliche, and a joke.

I don't know the origin, though.

Bryan

Trust that this helps ...

Anyone for tennis? as a catchphrase typifies the kind of drawing-room
comedies in which someone stepped in through the French windows,
lightly swinging a racket; surprisingly (given his later tough-guy
image) it was once much associated with Humphrey Bogart, although it
may have originated with George Bernard Shaw. (Misalliance, 1914, has
the question, 'Anybody on for a game of tennis?'.

Search strategy: "Anyone for tennis?"

http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/bogart/?view=uk

Dear Bryan,

Thanks for your help!

It appears that we posted the same information within a minute of each other. .)

Regards,
Bobbie

Bryan,

Hi, we meet again in a different thread. Do you play tennis? I used
to. Well, I still do, though at a much lower level that in years past.

Trivia note #1: The rock group Cream (included Eric Clapton before he
went solo) recored a song called "Anyone for Tennis," written by
Clapton and Martin Sharp.

Trivia note #2: For many years, a popular bumper sticker in the USA
was "NE1410S." (Say it aloud. If you can't get it, see the above song
title.  <s>)

dtc

Oops, sorry for the typo. "Recored" in trivia note #1 should read "recorded."Ë

Agh--and where did that "Ë" come from at the end of my last line? If
any of you followed the recent "Old lenses on new Canon digital
camera?" thread, you'll know that this posting software has been
giving me some weird characters after the last thing I type. Usually
it's my initials that I type last. This time, since I was simply
correcting a typo, I didn't add my initials at the end, and I got a
character that I didn't type just after my last period. 'Tis a
puzzlement!  :-)i

Hi, Again, dtc

I did used to play tennis but, like everything else I do or did ... Not very well.

However, I am sure that I am the champ when it comes to making typos ...

I'm always writing 'thnaks' ... there should be a word for that.

Regards

Bryan

Thanks for your help gentlemen.  I hope that the info at least gets me
partial credit on my wager:)