The Belle of New York (1952)

Vera-Ellen: Angela Bonfils

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• Angela Bonfils : There's nothing wrong with you.

  Charlie Hill : Yes there is, I'm in love.

  Angela Bonfils : Love?

  Charlie Hill : You probably don't know about love.

  Angela Bonfils : Well I certainly know it isn't about being numb, weak at the knees.

• Charlie Hill : Peanuts. I only wish they were diamonds.

  Angela Bonfils : That's silly, you can't eat diamonds.

  Charlie Hill : Diamonds buy a lot of peanuts.

  Angela Bonfils : I got a lot of peanuts.

• Charlie Hill : Can I have a magazine? I'll treasure this all my life, I'll sleep with it under my pillow.

  Angela Bonfils : It would do you more good if you read it.

• Mrs. Phineas Hill : The Belle of New York. A fine title for somebody in our type of work.

  Angela Bonfils : Oh, it's only their way of showing their love for our welfare house.

  Mrs. Phineas Hill : Amazing how they've grown to love our welfare house since you've grown.

  [Miss Wilkens bangs her bass drum] 

  Mrs. Phineas Hill : Miss Wilkins.

  Angela Bonfils : Well, the important thing is they do come here.

  Mrs. Phineas Hill : But that *look* in their eyes. Not exactly the right kind of look for men who are seeking guidance - you know what I mean?

• Mrs. Phineas Hill : Honestly, if it weren't for your parents who built this welfare house, I'd advise you to - choose some other type of career.

  Angela Bonfils : Oh, but, Mrs. Hill this has been my home, my life. And I've tried so hard to - to equip myself for this kind of work.

  Elsie Wilkins : If you ask me, it's your equipment that's causing all the...

  Mrs. Phineas Hill : Miss Wilkins!

• Angela Bonfils : The fact that you have chosen to spend your time here, in these surroundings, is proof that you have forsaken your former hangouts - those environments of sin and temptation. We are proud of the great number of you who have deserted the evil of wine, women and song.

• Mrs. Phineas Hill : Oh, it's not your fault, Angela. If you were only a little plainer. If you don't look so... so...

  Angela Bonfils : So?

  Mrs. Phineas Hill : Well, if you only would look a little more so-so than so.

  Angela Bonfils : Oh.

• Angela Bonfils : [singing]  Give old Lucifer a shove, You can light your way above, If you let a little love, In your life.

• Angela Bonfils : What are you trying to do?

  Charlie Hill : I wanna be saved by you and for you.

  Angela Bonfils : You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

  Charlie Hill : I am, I'm an awful sinner.

• Angela Bonfils : Love is - an emotion that's *alive*, exciting, vibrant. You feel like a - billowy cloud. And you walk on air.

• Angela Bonfils : [singing]  Wanna be naughty, Naughty but nice, See if I'm made of, Sugar and spice, To all convention, I call out: Gangway, I confess that I wanna care less...

• Angela Bonfils : How could I act like a - a frivolous woman?

  Elsie Wilkins : Well, you've got every part to play it with.

• Angela Bonfils : Where's my corset?

• Angela Bonfils : Oh! Elsie!

  Elsie Wilkins : Oh, look at - garters!

  Angela Bonfils : Garters! Oh, but do you think we can be this bad?

  Elsie Wilkins : Oh, you're not being bad. You're just being a little naughty.

• Angela Bonfils : Elsie, I'm frightened.

  Elsie Wilkins : Why?

  Angela Bonfils : I like it.

  Elsie Wilkins : Me too.

• Angela Bonfils : I ordered champagne, I wanted champagne, and I expected to get champagne.