Easy to Wed (1946)
Van Johnson: Bill Stevens Chandler
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Quotes
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : You're too modest. Why, you're a woman of great depths, depths that have never been plumbed.
Gladys Benton : [referring to her boyfriend] No, Warren's not much of a plumber.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : [referring to the sham wedding just performed] How much do I owe you?
Mr. H.O. Dibson - Justice of the Peace : Well, anything you think it's worth.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : [Handing the Justice money] There's two dollars.
[Gladys looks outraged, then disgusted]
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Now, here's the plan. The Allenburys are in Mexico City. I'll take a plane down there, register at the same hotel, meet the girl. Perhaps she comes to my room.
Warren Haggerty : What?
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Just for a cocktail, of course. All perfectly innocent to her, to me, to everybody at the hotel - except to our private detective who wires my wife.
Warren Haggerty : You got a wife?
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Well, not of my own, but we'll hire some attractive girl to marry me.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I know all about he: spoiled, arrogant, engaged to a different guy every month. The crown princess of Café Society. That's her reputation. And she thinks it's worth 2 million? When I get through, she'll take 2 cents - in Japanese money.
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Spike Dolan : That Allenbury girl is as pretty as a picture and I accentuate - the positive.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Yeah and that's the little picture we're gonna frame.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Not bad.
Warren Haggerty : Not bad at all.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Nice legs.
Warren Haggerty : You keep her legs out of it.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : They come with her, don't they?
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Gladys Benton : [to Warren] I've taken plenty from you but this is the end. Marrying me off to another guy, to this blond baboon.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Baboons are very smart. They can do anything a man can do.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I thought I was rather clever.
Connie Allenbury : Yes, I thought you thought so.
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J.B. Allenbury : Yes, Muscovys have their points, but give me a Canadian honker. I know, my boy. I have a hunting lodge up in Canada and...
Connie Allenbury : Father, shall we say duck?
J.B. Allenbury : Duck.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Duck.
Connie Allenbury : Duck.
Headwaiter : Duck.
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Connie Allenbury : You're very much at home on the dance floor, aren't you?
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : When I have a partner like you, yes. You're as light as thistledown.
Connie Allenbury : Deceiving things, thistles. They're really quite prickly.
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Connie Allenbury : Mrs. Burns Norvell and her daughter, Barbara.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : How do you do?
Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Babs, to you.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : The operator in the bedroom has much nicer voice.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I do hope you have daiquiri cocktails. They're my *favorite*.
Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I only have champagne cocktails.
Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Oh, well, that's my *new* favorite.
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Connie Allenbury : Live and learn, says I, Connie, my pet. Next time, don't bet on men.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Don't apologize for suspecting people, Connie. Keep right on. Ring every coin you meet. There are lots of wooden nickels in circulation.
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Connie Allenbury : I'm a very remarkable girl.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I'm beginning to think you're right.
Connie Allenbury : There are many sides to my nature, young man. Depths you little dream of.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I'll make a study.
Connie Allenbury : Do.
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Gladys Benton : Pour me another glass of bubbly.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Quote, "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble," unquote. Macbeth.
Gladys Benton : My grandfather's name was MacSweeney.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Oh, what's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Gladys Benton : That's my grandmother.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Who?
Gladys Benton : Rose. Rose MacSweeney.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Oh, well, let's drink to the old girl.
Gladys Benton : Let's just drink, period.
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William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Come, my fair Ophelia. Let us down the sweet draught of Bacchus.
Gladys Benton : What's that?
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : That's Shakespeare for "bottoms up."
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Warren Haggerty : What do you think I was gonna pay you $50,000 for, to make love to my girl?
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : If the necessity arose, yes.
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Gladys Benton : I don't wanna play Ophelia. I wanna play Hamlet.
William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Why?
Gladys Benton : Because Hamlet wears tights and I'm terrific in tights. Did you ever see me in tights? I'm pretty.