Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Jane Powell: Milly Pontipee

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Quotes 

• Adam : What do you call her?

  Milly : I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off.

  Adam : Hannah.

  Milly : Hannah.

  Adam : I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox.

• Milly : Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too.

  Adam : What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.

• Milly : Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

• Milly : Say something nice, Gideon.

  Gideon : Nice night for a coon hunt.

• Milly : Good morning my brothers. If you're looking for your outside clothes they're hanging up drying on the line. I came in before and got them. I couldn't get your inside clothes so I'll take them now.

  Benjamin : Our underwear?

  Milly : You're winter underwear that you're sleeping in. You might as well hand it over because you're not gonna get your clothes or food or nothing til you get all cleaned up and shaved.

  Benjamin : Where's Adam? We wanna talk to Adam.

  Milly : He's out plowing, he had his breakfast over a half an hour ago. I got hot muffins waiting, crisp bacon, steak, fryer potatoes, fresh ground coffee. Now do I get that winter underwear or do I have to come in there and take it off of you?

  Benjamin : Don't listen to her. She wouldn't dare.

  Milly : Oh wouldn't I?

• Adam : Smells good enough to eat.

  Milly : Tastes good too, so they tell me.

  Adam : Got any ketchup handy?

  Milly : My stew can stand on its own feet.

• Milly : [Desperate to stop the fistfight]  Don't just stand there, do something!

  Frank : [Casually]  What for? There's only three little ones!

• Milly : Which one is Ephraim and which is Daniel?

  Ephraim , Daniel : Me.

  Milly : Y'all live around here?

  Caleb : Not round, here.

• Milly : Raise your hat. What's the matter, Caleb?

  Caleb : My hair ain't combed.

• Milly : Don't you like girls?

  Gideon : We ain't never hardly ever seen one.

• Adam : This is my brother Caleb.

  Milly : How are you brother Caleb?

  Adam : This is Milly, my wife.

  Caleb : Your wife? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Hey Dan, he did it, he got married!

• Sam : When are you gonna marry me Milly?

  Milly : Oh, next week Sam.

  Tom : She's gonna marry me, ain't you Milly?

  Milly : What would your wife say Tom?

• Milly : [after the barn fight]  Frank?

  Frank : Kick in the pants.

• Adam : [after Milly has banished him and his brothers to the barn for kidnapping the girls]  Now you're takin' this too hard! Everything will work out fine. We'll get a preacher up here someway or another.

  Milly : [Shocked and irate]  You this that those girls would marry them now? You think it's so easy because I didn't court you or nothin', that that's all there is to it! I married you because I fell in love with you the moment I saw you, but I thought it was the same for you too.

  Adam : [Trying to be conciliatory]  Now, Milly...

  Milly : [Enraged and distraught]  You think a wife's just a cookin' thing! You've got no understandings, you've got no feelings! How could you do a thing like this? Just think of these poor girls sick with fright-!... And their families crazy with worry-!... I can't abide to look at you!

  [goes inside, slams the door]