Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Fred Astaire: Fred Astaire ('Here's to the Ladies'), Raffles ('This Heart of Mine'), Tai Long ('Limehouse Blues'), Gentleman ('The Babbit and the Bromide')
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Quotes
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Fred Astaire : I'm sorry, I can't quite place you. What line of business are you in?
Gene Kelly : Well, I dance.
Fred Astaire : Oh, at home, for the folks? Picnics and that kind of thing?
Gene Kelly : Oh, no, no. In public.
Fred Astaire : On street corners?
Gene Kelly : Oh, no. On the screen. Motion pictures! You do go to pictures that have dancing in them, don't you?
Fred Astaire : I try to see them all.
Gene Kelly : Did you see a picture called "Cover Girl"?
Fred Astaire : Yes.
Gene Kelly : Well, who did all the dancing in that?
Fred Astaire : You're not Rita Hayworth?
Gene Kelly : No I'm not... Ginger.
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Fred Astaire : Hello.
Gene Kelly : How are you?
Fred Astaire : How's that folks?
Gene Kelly : What's new?
Fred Astaire : I'm great.
Gene Kelly : That's good.
Fred Astaire : Ha-ha!
Gene Kelly : Knock wood.
Fred Astaire : Well, well.
Gene Kelly : That's life.
Fred Astaire : What do you know?
Gene Kelly : How's the wife?
Fred Astaire : Gotta run.
Gene Kelly : Oh, my.
Fred Astaire : Ta-ta.
Gene Kelly : Olive oil.
Gene Kelly , Fred Astaire : Bye, bye.
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Fred Astaire : What can I say about Ziegfeld? Well, I can only tell that as long as there's a dance, a song, a musical show, and it's good, somewhere around or in it is Ziegfeld.
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Fred Astaire : Ziggy was a specialist at glorifying girls. That's one of the most important things about the Follies, you know. So,
[singing]
Fred Astaire : Here's to the beautiful ladies, Here's to those wonderful girls, Adele's and Molly's, Lucille's and Polly's, You'll find them all in the Ziegfeld Follies...
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Fred Astaire : [sings] This is the mixture to start the picture / So bring on those beautiful girls.
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Fred Astaire : The Ziegfeld Follies was itself a story of an era. It was gay, bright, beautiful. That's how Ziggy wanted it.
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Fred Astaire : [singing] This heart of mine was doing very well, The world was fine as far as i could tell, And then quite suddenly I saw you, and I dreamed of gay amours...
