Movie Dialogue With Astrology

Watching "Streetcar Named Desire" on TV the other night, I noticed a mention of zodiac signs in the dialogue. Such rare occasions always grab my attention. Astrology is a popular interest, in spite of continued attempts by skeptics to discredit it. With this in mind, it's surprising that the subject doesn't come up more often in movie dialogue. Perhaps most screenwriters are skeptics.

Anyway, I've decided to keep track of any mentions I encounter from now on, in a list maintained here, on this post.

For starters there's a scene in "Carmen Jones", about which I wrote back in October 2007 - the relevant paragraph:

"I was pleased, for once, to see an astrological chart as a wall display in a scene in the movie. Talk of "bad luck in the cards" was included in the same scene. A character later threw a half-eaten peach across the room, it hit the first house on the chart - a bad omen indeed, as events unfolded - although a hit on eighth house might have been more astrologically correct. "

Next one:

In "Streetcar Named Desire" there's some dialogue between Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando, (playing Blanche and Stanley):

"Stanley! What sign were you born under? - What sign? Astrological sign. I bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful and dynamic. They dote on noise! They love to bang things around!"

Stanley tells her that he was born just five minutes after Christmas.

"Oh, Capricorn the goat," she says with a look on her face that tells how aptly the astrological sign describes Stanley Kowalski.

I'll add to the, as yet very small, list and re-post it whenever I come across more myself.

Any more from anyone else?~~~~~Do tell!

Jennifer (see her comment) has added this from "Harvey"

Mrs. Simmons,
what is your brother's name?

I'm sorry. Life is
not easy for any of us.

It's Dowd.
Elwood P. Dowd.


Elwood P. Dowd.
His age?

Forty-two
the th of last April.

He's Taurus,
Taurus the bull.

I'm Leo, and Myrtle's on the
cusp. You have him with you now?

Oh, yes. He's outside
waiting in a taxi cab.

Another update ~~ I've just remembered an old post of mine about "Gone With the Wind" and a zodiac connection. Not exactly what I'm looking for now, but close-ish.

Penelope added this: thank you, Penelope!

I don't have a copy to quote from but L.P Hartley's The Go-Between ('The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.') refers somewhere in the first chapters to the zodiac, potently enough for me to recall.

It seems that the "hero" of the tale was called Leo - a clue as to how any conversation about zodiac signs began?

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow....

Pen came back later to add more on this (thanks, Pen - sterling work!)
Curiosity piqued, I had to go and have the book fetched from the library stack. On

p. 3 Leo is describing his new diary for 1900:
"... round the year thus confidently heralded, the first year of the century, winged with hope, clustered th signs of the zodiac, each somehow contriving to suggest a plenitude of life and power, each glorious, though differing from the others in glory. ... I remembered ... their shapes and attitudes ... the magic with which they were then invested, and the tingling sense of coming fruition they conveyed ..."

Anonymous has contributed this - thanks Anon!

In the wonderful film, Bell, Book and Candle, Manhattan witches Kim Novak, Elsa Lancaster and Jack Lemmon spend a Christmas evening at the Zodiac Club. When Jimmy Stewart seeks to gain entrance to the club, he has to tell the doorman his birthdate.

ANY MORE - anyone? So far these are all old movies. Any more modern examples?