Yves Montand credited as playing...
Jean-Marc Clément
- Jean-Marc Clement: How do people in show business look?
- Amanda Dell: They don't. I mean, a girl can walk around backstage with nothing on except her good will and nobody'll even turn his head. The same girl, fully dressed, walks down an aisle of clerks in an office - pinched black and blue. What's the matter with you people, anyway?
- Amanda Dell: The least you could have done is tell me who you are!
- Jean-Marc Clement: I did tell you.
- Amanda Dell: How did you expect me to believe it?
- Jean-Marc Clement: Because it was true.
- Amanda Dell: That's no excuse!
- Jean-Marc Clement: You must be pretty tired. How many times did you go through that dance today?
- Amanda Dell: Oh, I lost count. Matter of fact, sometimes I even trot home afterwards. You sleep better. You ever trot?
- Jean-Marc Clement: I'm just thinking.
- Amanda Dell: About what?
- Jean-Marc Clement: About how happy you are.
- Amanda Dell: Me? Happy?
- Jean-Marc Clement: Mmm-hmm. You seem able to forget yourself. That's the way you dance, and you walk in the street that way, too. You seem at home wherever you are. It must be a great feeling.
- Jean-Marc Clement: You don't hold your liquor very well.
- Alexander Coffman: It's not leaking out any place.
- Jean-Marc Clement: You don't have to worry about the bracelet, though. Just put Vaseline on your wrist every night. Don't skimp. A thick layer of Vaseline.
- Lily Nyles: Vaseline? Why?
- Jean-Marc Clement: It'll keep your wrist from peeling.
- [Milton Berle approaches Jean-Marc, acting feminine, comedically]
- Jean-Marc Clement: And fourteen million Americans call you "Uncle?"
- George Welch: I've known for a long time that something like this was bound to happen. All those women you take out in public, this is the result.
- Jean-Marc Clement: I'm not anxious to take them out in public, George. They won't stay indoors.
- Jean-Marc Clement: Please, will you call me a taxi?
- Street Sweeper: Sure. You're a taxi. The guy who calls the taxis will be back in ten minutes. I only park the cars.
- Jean-Marc Clement: I want to see the manager.
- Street Sweeper: Come back in three months. Maybe he'll be out by then - with good behavior.
- Jean-Marc Clement: Oh, are you a college girl?
- Amanda Dell: No. Night school. I'm getting my high school diploma.
- Jean-Marc Clement: What do you want to do with that for?
- Amanda Dell: I got tired of being ignorant. I never knew what people were referring to.
- Jean-Marc Clement: I hope you'll help me. I've never been on stage before.
- Amanda Dell: I knew. You can always tell an outsider.
- Jean-Marc Clement: How?
- Amanda Dell: Mostly the way they look at girls in rehearsal clothes.
- Jean-Marc Clement: You're damn right, it's no good. I didn't count on looking that ridiculous. He's got all the jokes and I'm going cock-a-doodle-do.
- George Welch: Well, you take his jokes and let him go cock-a-doodle-do. How about firing him?
- Jean-Marc Clement: No. No. That would upset her.
- George Welch: You'll never impress her by being a rooster - unless she's a chicken.
- Gene Kelly: You must express yourself. The way an actor does.
- Jean-Marc Clement: An actor?
- Gene Kelly: Yes! You see, a dancer expresses with his body what an actor does with words. It's not just the feet.
- Bing Crosby: [singing] If they're told to me all covered with sighs, The wildest of lies seems true.
- [talking]
- Bing Crosby: You see, you run it all together like that. Keep it movin'.
- Jean-Marc Clement: Over?
- Bing Crosby: Over, the whole thing.
- Jean-Marc Clement: Breathe?
- Bing Crosby: Oh, well you and I will know you're out of breathe. But, she'll think it's very sexy.
- Milton Berle: I have a gag that I always do. It's dynamite. It's the best thing that I've ever done.
- Jean-Marc Clement: Is this material original?
- Milton Berle: Original?
- Jean-Marc Clement: Mm-hmm.
- Milton Berle: Forget it, we'll try something else.
- Jean-Marc Clement: There is a job here, for an honest man.
- Alexander Coffman: Thank you, sir. l wasn't addressing your money that time. l'll see you in the morning!
- Jean-Marc Clement: And...
- [hands diamond bracelet over as a gift]
- Jean-Marc Clement: for your wife, to forgive me for keeping you so late. Don't tell me l'm buying your approval. l am, but one can only give what one has, and l give you that. Get in early. There will be a lot to do.