The Major and the Minor (1942)
Ray Milland: Major Philip Kirby
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Quotes
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Major Kirby : Call me Uncle Philip. Do you have a nightie with you?
Susan Applegate : Yes, Uncle Philip.
Major Kirby : Well, then, suppose you go in there and get changed.
Susan Applegate : You really think so?
Major Kirby : Why, sure! And just sing out if you have any trouble with your buttons.
Susan Applegate : Oh, I haven't had any button trouble in a long, long time.
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Major Kirby : Anything wrong? Stomach again? How do you feel Su-Su?
Susan Applegate : So-so.
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Major Kirby : Listen, Su-Su, you like boys don't you?
Susan Applegate : What boys?
Major Kirby : Nice boys. Can you dance?
Susan Applegate : A little.
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Major Kirby : That's why we say a girl like you is attractive.
Susan Applegate : Am I?
Major Kirby : Oh, yes! Yes. You have very nice eyes and good straight legs and theirs a sort of glow to your hair. I was watching you in the mess hall this afternoon.
Susan Applegate : Were you?
Major Kirby : Yes. That little red head of yours is like a dandelion in a big meadow of uniforms. Well, frankly, I felt like cutting classes and taking the afternoon off and showing you around myself.
Susan Applegate : Honest?
Major Kirby : I'll tell you something else, too. One day you're going to be a very charming young lady.
Susan Applegate : When?
Major Kirby : Six or seven years.
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[last lines]
Susan Applegate : You know, I have my own theory about the fall of France.
[places her finger on Maj. Kirby's lips]
Susan Applegate : Now, this is Sedan. And there was the big Maginot Line and the small Maginot line. And the German army swung through The Netherlands and Belgium. And a panzer division smacked right through here.
[kiss]
Major Kirby : Su-Su!
Susan Applegate : Come, Philip!
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Major Kirby : Su-Su, this is a treat that doesn't come to one girl in a million.
Susan Applegate : Does it have to come to me?
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Major Kirby : Oh, if Miss Parrot could only see me now!
Susan Applegate : Miss who?
Major Kirby : Miss Jean Parrot, my dancing teacher. I was 12 and she was 40. I had a terrific crush on her.
Susan Applegate : That's an awkward situation.
Major Kirby : Ah, the poetry in Miss Parrot's feet demonstrating the tango.
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Major Kirby : Milk, root beer, ginger ale?
Susan Applegate : Ginger ale!
Major Kirby : Ginger ale!
Susan Applegate : It looks more like Champagne.
Major Kirby : To you, Su-Su. To all my crushes.
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Major Kirby : You know Su-Su, you're a very peculiar child.
Susan Applegate : You bet I am.
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Major Kirby : Why don't they send me to Trinidad or the Canal Zone or Iceland? Anywhere.
Pamela Hill : Well, why not worry about that when and if there is a war?
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Major Kirby : During the first shift I happened to see her with one of the boys at the cannon and, frankly, I was worried.
Pamela Hill : For whom? The boy?
Major Kirby : For her, of course. You can't suddenly throw a young girl among 300 cadets.
Pamela Hill : In the merry month of May.
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Major Kirby : Pamela, I think you ought to talk to her. You know...
Pamela Hill : Facts of life?
Major Kirby : Yes.
Pamela Hill : No, thank you, darling.
