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The origin of this phrase (AFAIK) lies in the 1949 juvenile delinquent movie Knock on Any Door, starring Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton, the conscience-striken lawyer, and John Derek as Pretty Boy Romano, the young punk. As a thug in a street gang and eventually as a career criminal, Romano lived by the motto,"I wanna live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse!"
While representing Romano during his murder trial, Morton decides that given the terrible conditions in the slums, it was inevitable that Romano would turn to a life of crime. "Knock on any door," Morton argues to the jury, "and you'll find another potential Pretty Boy Romano."
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Actually, the phrase comes from the book "Knock on Any Door," written by Willard Motley. Motley's novel was originally published in 1947.
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∙ 11y agoI know it's a lyric of a Johnny Flynn song, "Drum" and a comment on YouTube of this song said the line is from James Dean
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