Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf

The 1939 screenplay carries a shared credit: Noel Langley (1911–1980) wrote the script that formed the basis of the film, and it was then revised by the writing team of Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf — revisions Langley disliked enough that he stripped many of them back out when producer Arthur Freed returned the script to him. At least ten writers passed over the material without credit, among them George Cukor, King Vidor and Irving Brecher. Because the credit is shared and the drafts were heavily reworked, the surviving credit does not establish which of the three actually wrote this particular line — it establishes only that the line is theirs collectively, and not the actor's or the character's.