Confidentially Connie (1953)

Van Johnson: Joe Bedloe

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• Joe Bedloe : [looking at the huge slab of meat]  Holy mackerel!

  Connie Bedloe : No, dear, holy cow!

• Joe Bedloe : What about the budget? You said for the rest of the week we'd be eating codfish balls.

  Connie Bedloe : Oh, I juggled the budget a bit.

  Joe Bedloe : How?

  Connie Bedloe : Gave up smoking. Good thing, too. I've been meaning to give it up for some time.

  Joe Bedloe : First I've heard of it.

  Connie Bedloe : Oh, sure! Pregnant women shouldn't smoke.

  Joe Bedloe : Oh, don't give me that. I've been up at Dr. Shoop's Waiting Room. It's like a forest fire up there.

• Connie Bedloe : [singing]  Little lamb chops, Little lamb chops, You are so very good, Little lamb chops, Little lamb chops, You are so very good, I love my little lamb chops, Little lamb chops, I love

  Connie Bedloe , Joe Bedloe : I love my little lamb chops. Little lamb chops, I love!

• Connie Bedloe : Joe, the neighbors.

  Joe Bedloe : Oh, let 'em look. It's time the men around here learn how to kiss their wives, anyhow.

• Connie Bedloe : Mrs. Richards across the street asked me the other day if you were a test pilot.

  Joe Bedloe : Well, what gave her that idea?

  Connie Bedloe : She said you kiss me in the morning like you weren't sure you were coming home at night.

• Joe Bedloe : Don't forget to take your pills, Connie.

  Connie Bedloe : I'll take them later.

  Joe Bedloe : Take them now where I can see you.

  Connie Bedloe : Slave driver!

• Opie Bedloe : You old coyote!

  Joe Bedloe : You crazy sidewinder!

  Opie Bedloe : You horny toad!

  Joe Bedloe : You ugly varmint!

• Joe Bedloe : Students, I've just finished reading your examination papers on Shakespeare and I congratulate you. Your lack of understanding is truly spectacular. Now, look, you guys, you seem to have the idea that Shakespeare is something dusty and ancient. Well, he's not. He's brand new. He's streamlined. He's just as true today as he was 400 years ago. We can all profit from Shakespeare. He's got something to say to all of us. To you and you and you.

• Joe Bedloe : I wouldn't exactly like to live with him again, but, I guess, it would be tolerable.

  Connie Bedloe : It might be tolerable living in a tank of barracudas too.

  Joe Bedloe : Now, Connie, don't you think you're painting him a little black?

  Connie Bedloe : I'm painting him black? I've never even laid eyes on the man. I'm just quoting you. It couldn't be that you've painted him a little black, could it?

  Joe Bedloe : No. He's a very difficult man, that father of mine, very difficult. But he's not black! A little gray maybe, but, not black.

• Joe Bedloe : I'm no apples polisher!

• Joe Bedloe : Every 30 years there's another generation of Americans. A whole new nation. 150 million new people. What's the guarantee that they're Americans? Why don't they just turn into 160 million people with powerful airplanes and big bombs and an itch to rule the world? I'll tell you why. Because they've got a heritage. They've got a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence and a tradition of fair play. And how do they know it? Because the teachers of America tell it to them. Not only tell it them, but sell it to them.

• Joe Bedloe : Connie, where are you?

  Connie Bedloe : Out here.

  Joe Bedloe : What are you doing?

  Connie Bedloe : What am I always doing? Fixing dinner.

• Joe Bedloe : You're a treacherous, devious, perfidious, double-dealing wench!

  Connie Bedloe : Yes, my Lord.

  Joe Bedloe : Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

  Connie Bedloe : Oh, yes, my Lord.

  Joe Bedloe : Well, in that case...

  [Joe kisses Connie] 

• Joe Bedloe : Isn't it wonderful, Connie.

  Connie Bedloe : What?

  Joe Bedloe : That our friends are going to have plenty of meat.

  Connie Bedloe : Oh, peachy!

• Connie Bedloe : Plenty of love and plenty of pride in my man.

  Joe Bedloe : Why? Because I'm such a good provider?

  Connie Bedloe : Oh, look darling. My father was a teacher. And his father before him. I knew I wasn't getting in for a life of ease when i married you.