The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Fred MacMurray: Dr. Corey T. McBain

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Quotes 

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : I'm going to operate, and for the first time in my life I hope the patient dies on the table.

• Dr. Jones : Don't you worry one moment about that bouncing boy. He'll grow up to be President one of these day.

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : [scowling]  I'm a Republican.

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : The infant's chest seems perfect.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Please don't say "infant." Seems so un-affectionate, as though she had no continelity.

  [sic, a clear flub of her line, possibly meant personality] 

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Please call her Joanna.

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : Miss Madden, might I suggest that you choose a different name for, uh, Joanna. She, uh, happens to be a male.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : What? A boy? But that can't be. He, I mean, she, I mean, he was wearing all pink. He just can't be a boy. Everybody knows that girls wear pink and boys wear blue - don't you know that?

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : Miss Madden, many years ago, medical science discovered a much better way of segregating boys and girls than by the color of their clothing.

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : I was called here to examine a two-year-old child.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Here she is. My own precious darling Joanna.

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : This? This is an infant of about 8 or 9 months.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh, yes, yes, that was a slight mistake about the age. She's so smart that I always think of her as being much older.

• Buddy : Are you English?

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : No, Nebraska. Why?

  Buddy : You keep understating everything.

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : And 17 generations of rabbits is 365,422 rabbits.

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : I always thought reporters wore their hats on the back of their heads

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh, that's just in the movies.

• Dr. Corey T. McBain : I wanted something too, once - something I couldn't have.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : A baby?

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : No, not a baby -- rabbits. Three hundred and sixty-five thousand, four hundred and twenty-two rabbits.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : You're on the dock, Bluebeard. What number am I?

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : Two.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I must be the last. We were just married this morning. There'd hardly be time for a third.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Nobody who likes rabbits could be very vicious.

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : Oh, I'm not, but... well, you just don't marry people on the same day you examine their babies.