A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Fred MacMurray: Peter Ulysses Lockwood
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Quotes
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : It's just that I hate to leave here with you thinking the thoughts that you're thinking.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who can afford to go crazy at your prices?
Dr. Roland Cook : You know I plan to open a charity clinic someday.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh, sure, someday.
Dr. Roland Cook : Well, maybe you'd like to pledge a donation.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I'm helping people to happiness every day.
Dr. Roland Cook : Yes, I heard that blond telling you how wonderful you were.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Listen you, you... horse doctor. I tried to explain to you that the... oh, what's the use.
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Dr. Roland Cook : This whole thing has a decided air of vulgarity about it.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Vulgarity? What do you call those passes you keep making at June?
Dr. Roland Cook : You took her away from me in the first place. I'll keep trying right up to the altar.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I suppose you'll keep trying after you're just a friend of the family, dawdling my children on your knee.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [on the phone with Dr. Roland Cook] I'm stuck with a lunatic. You've gotta come back here and help me.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh, no, no, no, it's just a girl.
Dr. Roland Cook : Yes, I know. They taught us the difference in medical school.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Now, you be a good girl and get in this phone booth. Pretend you're a princess and you've been locked in a tower by the unhappy dragon.
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June Chandler : What'll people say? Roland's been announced as best man in all the newspapers.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh, tell 'em he had a nervous breakdown. Heh, psychiatrists do.
Benjamin Chandler : This is no joke. Too bad you didn't break your leg so you couldn't have gotten here.
June Chandler : Oh, daddy. You promised to be nice.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I know you've never been particularly fond of me, Mr. Chandler.
Benjamin Chandler : I can't conceal my disrespect for a grown man intent to work only six hours a week on a radio.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : You think you're traveling with a fellow who can only talk about prune juice?
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I don't like your attitude much.
Dr. Roland Cook : My attitude? Isn't it enough that you took June away from me while I was studying in Menninger's?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Well, you didn't study hard enough. That blond was a total stranger and nuttier than a fruitcake. Couldn't you tell that?
Dr. Roland Cook : Only if she were lying on a couch.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I know the name for you, Moonshine.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Moonshine? Do you think it fits me?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Like a glove. Yellow moon. Blond hair. You see, the word lunar is the Latin word for moon. Hence the word, lunacy. Uh, no offense.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : No offense.
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Dr. Whipple : Could be a loss of memory brought on by the shock of the wedding. Rather common with the abandoned woman.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Well, who abandoned her? I didn't.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [on the phone with Dr. Roland Cook] Well, she faints, she, she makes wild statements and then she seems normal for a while, and then she... oh, oh, the reporters just came in.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Myrtle, get rid of her, will ya? And be nice to her. She's a little, uh
[gestures with his hand and head]
Myrtle, Cleaning Woman : Since when is she an exception?
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [on phone conversation with Dr. Cook] Come back, will ya, and bring a straightjacket... I know you've got other patients. Well, I'm not going to bring her all the way to La Jolla.
Dr. Roland Cook : [on phone with Peter] I'll expect you in a couple of hours. Oh, and Peter, be very careful. A woman in her condition is not in control of her actions. If she jumps out of your car, you're legally responsible, so... don't let her get away from you. Goodbye!
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, I, I feel like such a heel. I mean, about spending your honeymoon with you.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : It couldn't be helped. I don't suppose it's too unusual for people to drive into the ocean. That's life.
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Dr. Roland Cook : This young woman - impressionable, overly sensitive. She's actually formed an emotional attachment from listening to you on the radio.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh, one of those mash things, huh?
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Dr. Roland Cook : [pulls down a wall chart of a female body] Now, just where did you kiss her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Wh... oh, oh, this is ridiculous.
Dr. Roland Cook : These are clinical questions. Now do you want me to help her or do you want me to go the police, as I should do?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : No... I probably kissed her several places.
Dr. Roland Cook : Mm, hmm. The uh, the nape of the neck, for instance?
[he points to the neck on the chart]
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I... I... I guess so.
Dr. Roland Cook : Couldn't be worse.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Couldn't be worse?
Dr. Roland Cook : In so doing, you caused excessive stimulation to her nerve box, as it is sometimes called.
[he points to the throat on the chart]
Dr. Roland Cook : I'll refrain from using the technical terms.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Thank you.
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Dr. Roland Cook : Then I doubt if you'd have a very happy bride on your hands if this poor creature threw herself off the dock while you sailed away.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Off the dock? All I did was have a few drinks of tequila.
Dr. Roland Cook : You've got a problem, Junior.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : And I knew doc was wrong about... well, I mean, you would never commit suicide, would you?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Not unless you don't get to the point.
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Dr. Roland Cook : You must realize that the female nervous system is a delicate mechanism.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I can see that.
Dr. Roland Cook : Did you kiss her fingertips?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Well, why? Did her hand fall off or something?
Dr. Roland Cook : I'm sorry; I've got to be systematic.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take a cook's tour around the human torso.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Sure. We'll always remain good friends. She was in love with my radio voice, not the real me. Hey! Then why did she say that she hates my program?
Dr. Roland Cook : Oh, uh conversion hysteria, probably.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : What's that?
Dr. Roland Cook : Nervous condition.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, you know, the Indians have lyrics too.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Yes. I used them on my program last year for Lionel's Lozenges.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I, uh, I want to apologize for my attitude. I realize that you're putting yourself out to do this.
Dr. Roland Cook : Yes, but I'm very happy to do it.
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Dr. Roland Cook : Did you have to take advantage of a woman in that condition?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : What do you mean?
Dr. Roland Cook : Your actions last night only served to worsen the original fixations.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Actions? Nothing happened last night.
Dr. Roland Cook : She told me everything.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : What is this, a rib or something?
Dr. Roland Cook : You brought me a mentally ill woman, and en route you aggravated her condition. Now I've got to file a state report on it.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Report? Look, I, I... had a few drinks of tequila. I might have done a couple of harmless things.
Dr. Roland Cook : Harmless? I'm afraid I've got to ask you a few personal questions. Sit down!
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Dr. Roland Cook : Do you want a suicide on your soul?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Suicide! No! That'd look great in the papers. I mean you can't do this to June. We're practically on our honeymoon.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Can all this harm come from a little necking?
Dr. Roland Cook : With a normal woman, no. But with one in her condition... I'm afraid that last night you seriously damaged her ganglia.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Her what?
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [on the telephone with June] But, June, I... but... but, June, I... but the car just wouldn't run... listen... June... nobody spoke English... I... but... I couldn't - there wasn't any telephone...
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Going back to her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Miss Chandler, to marry her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I suppose so... No! No!
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Good. They say all's fair, isn't it? In love and war, I mean? My stealing you from her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane , Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Miss Chandler.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh well, these things happen.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : [while they're necking passionately] Pete!
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Hmmm?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : How can you make love to me and still be in love with her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Miss Chandler.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh...
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : How can you?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I don't know.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I know how this must've looked to you, but doc can tell you what I was doing, can't you, doc?
June Chandler : He doesn't have to, darling. I learned the facts of life at boarding school.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Funny! I'm trying to get your memory back, and I'm losing mine.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Peter?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Hmmm?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Are you doing this because the doctor asked you to, or because you want to?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Both.
[he kisses her passionately again]
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : I, I'm all confused. I can't be frank...
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : No.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : ...and tell you that I'm crazy about you but not crazy.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Of course not.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : What would be my place with the other woman?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : What other woman?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : In your life.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : You're confused too, aren't you?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [nods his head and they kiss passionately] Uh, huh.