The More the Merrier (1943)
Joel McCrea: Joe Carter
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Quotes
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Benjamin Dingle : What's your name?
Joe Carter : Carter.
Benjamin Dingle : Bill Carter?
Joe Carter : Joe Carter.
Benjamin Dingle : I used to know a fellow named Bill Carter.
Joe Carter : Wasn't me.
Benjamin Dingle : Don't you suppose I know that?
Joe Carter : What'd you ask for, then?
Benjamin Dingle : I guess I know what Bill Carter looked like.
Joe Carter : Not like me.
Benjamin Dingle : Oh, then, you know Bill Carter.
Joe Carter : No, I don't, but he sounds like a great guy.
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Benjamin Dingle : Say, what brought you here, Mr. Carter?
Joe Carter : Railroad.
Benjamin Dingle : No, I mean, what's your job?
Joe Carter : I'm a mechanic. I work in a baby carriage factory.
Benjamin Dingle : Where?
Joe Carter : California.
Benjamin Dingle : San Francisco?
Joe Carter : Burbank.
Benjamin Dingle : Baby carriage factory, eh?
Joe Carter : Yep. Tokyo Baby Carriage Corporation - plain and fancy baby carriages for carrying babies to Tokyo.
Benjamin Dingle : Oh. Maybe you think this is none of my business.
Joe Carter : Maybe I do.
Benjamin Dingle : Probably your name isn't even Bill Carter.
Joe Carter : Probably not. It's probably Joe Carter.
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Joe Carter : What do you do?
Benjamin Dingle : I'm a well-to-do, retired millionaire. How 'bout you?
Joe Carter : Same.
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Connie Milligan : You - look messy. Don't you ever brush your hair?
Joe Carter : I suppose Mr. Pendergast combs his hair every hour, on the hour.
Connie Milligan : Mr. Pendergast has no hair!
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[Carter and Dingle are reading a "Dick Tracy" comic strip]
Connie Milligan : Is that the best you can do with your time?
Joe Carter : Mmm. Got to keep up with what's going on.
Benjamin Dingle : I missed two Sundays with "Superman" once, and I've never felt right since.
Connie Milligan : Seems to me you might read something more beneficial.
Joe Carter : Like what?
Connie Milligan : Like the editorials, for instance, or the columns. All well-informed people read the columnists.
Benjamin Dingle : Such as Mr. Pendergast, I suppose.
Connie Milligan : You're right, I suppose. Mr. Pendergast always reads the columnists.
Joe Carter : Are they funny?
Benjamin Dingle : Sometimes, but no pictures.
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Diner Counterman : Here's your fifty-cent blue plate.
Connie Milligan : [Looking at the food, starts crying]
Joe Carter : What kind of fish is this?
Diner Counterman : Catfish.
Connie Milligan : [Crying]
Diner Counterman : Here's your nice boiled rice.
Joe Carter : What's the matter, honey?
Connie Milligan : [Crying] I never thought when they threw rice at me it would be boiled.
Joe Carter : Look, we better hurry up and eat our lunch and get out of here. Let's go.
Diner Counterman : Is there something wrong, mister?
Joe Carter : No, everything's just dandy.
Diner Counterman : Well then why is the young lady crying?
Joe Carter : Because she's so happy.
Diner Counterman : [Smiles] Oh, for goodness sake. Newlyweds.
Joe Carter : What's wrong with newlyweds?
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Joe Carter : Another thing, don't take in any more roomers.
Connie Milligan : Why?
Joe Carter : Why? You can pick up a lot of riffraff that way, that's why.
Connie Milligan : Well, I was only tryin' to be patriotic.
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Joe Carter : What's the matter, Milligan?
Benjamin Dingle : Dingle. Now, listen Bill.
Joe Carter : Joe.
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Connie Milligan : What are you gawking at?
Joe Carter : You. You look nice.
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Connie Milligan : Who taught you to Rhumba? Some girl, I bet. Is she nice?
Joe Carter : Not half so nice as you.
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Joe Carter : Hello, Milligan.
Benjamin Dingle : I'm Dingle.
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Joe Carter : I hope I haven't upset your routine here?
Connie Milligan : Just - stick to the schedule, that's all I ask.
Benjamin Dingle : Rather nice having a high type, clean cut, nice young fellow at table. Better than nobody.
Connie Milligan : I'm used to nobody.
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Benjamin Dingle : You ought to have some high times here, Joe. Young fellas don't come a dime a dozen in Washington. Eight girls to every fellow.
Joe Carter : Yeah, well, I haven't got time for that. I'm only gonna be in Washington, only a week.
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Connie Milligan : Where are you going to, where you came from?
Joe Carter : Where they send me.
Connie Milligan : Who's they?
Joe Carter : The government.
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Connie Milligan : He just happens to be the assistant regional coordinator of OPL, that's all.
Joe Carter : Is that good or bad?
Connie Milligan : Eighty-six hundred dollars a year.
Benjamin Dingle : That's good.
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Morton Rodakiewicz : [Watching Joe looking out the window through binoculars] Hey, what are you lookin' at?
Joe Carter : The Capitol Dome.
Morton Rodakiewicz : You better not be lookin' outta those spy glasses.
Joe Carter : Scram.
Morton Rodakiewicz : You can get in awful serious trouble doin' that.
Joe Carter : Knock off, will ya.
Morton Rodakiewicz : Everybodies given their spy glasses to the Navy. I read it in a paper. Why don't you give your spy glasses to the Navy too?
Joe Carter : Because - I'm a Jap!
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Miss Chasen : Hello Betty.
Miss Allen : Oh, hello. Miss Milligan. - Mr. Carter - Miss Harper. Miss Chasen. Miss Bilby. Miss Ewing. Miss. Dalton.
Miss Bilby : This is Miss Finch. Miss Dalton. Miss Geeskin. And Miss Harper. - Mr. Carter.
Joe Carter : How do you do?
Miss Chasen : Miss Allen. Miss Geeskin. Miss Finch. - Mr. Carter.
Connie Milligan : I'm Miss Milligan.