On the Town (1949)

Ann Miller: Claire Huddesen

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Quotes 

• Claire Huddesen : I was just doing a bit of research.

  Brunhilde Esterhazy : Dr. Kinsey, I presume.

• Claire Huddesen : You oughta feel proud that three sailors from the United States Navy got off the ship for one day, and what did they do? Were they thirsty for hard liquor? No. They were thirsty for culture. Were they running after girls? No. They came running to the museum to see your dinosaur. For months out at sea they were dreaming about your dinosaur.

• Ozzie : [after Claire took photo of him beside prehistoric man statue]  Er, what are you doing tonight?

  Claire Huddesen : Now just a minute! I want you to know that my interest in you is purely scientific. I'm just a cold-blooded scientist. And I'm writing an anthropological study for this musuem. It's called : "The Modern Man... And What It Is"

• Claire Huddesen : How'd you feel if someone broke your dinosaur?

  Ozzie : Never had one. We were too poor.

• Claire Huddesen : [singing]  Some guys care a lot for me. But my excitement they can't fan. Because I still await my primitive mate. We have a date... since the world began, my prehistoric man...!

  [dancing with Ozzie] 

• Claire Huddesen : You see, there are all too few modern males who can measure up to the prehistoric.

  [singing] 

  Claire Huddesen : Modern man is not for me, The movie star and Dapper Dan, Give me the healthy Joe from ages ago, A prehistoric man, What has Gable got for me, Or Mrs. Johnson's blond boy, Van, I want a happy ape, With no English drape...

• Claire Huddesen : What a lucky girl I am. I've simply got to get your measurements.

  Ozzie : Oh, I'm Junior Miss, size 11, very high-waisted.

  Claire Huddesen : Gorgeous!

  Ozzie : Hmm.

  [takes the tape measure from Claire] 

  Ozzie : Now, it's my turn.

  [starts measuring Claire] 

  Claire Huddesen : Oh. Oh! Stop. How dare you!

  Ozzie : Oh, I was only playin', lady. Whatcha doin' tonight?

• Claire Huddesen : You look exactly like this Pithecanthropus Erectus.

• Claire Huddesen : And now the head. The sub-super-dolichocephalic head. Oh, sailor, I love you for having that!

  Ozzie : Gee, all my life I wanted someone to love me for my sakidophalic head.

• Claire Huddesen : [singing]  Bearskin, bearskin, He just sat around, In nothing but bearskin, I really love bare skin...

• Claire Huddesen : [singing]  Jitters, jitters, He never had jitters, No repression, He just believed, In free self-expression, I love self-expression...

• Claire Huddesen : [singing]  He never knew what made him tick, He never paid it seems, For telling his dreams, Poor prehistoric Dick...

• Ozzie : Ladies and gentlemen, we're off on a lark. I've got one suggestion before we embark. There are lots of nice things to do in the dark. But let's not go rowing in Central Park. Woo! Woo! Woo!

  [singing] 

  Ozzie : We're going on the town

  Chip , Ozzie : New York! We're riding on a rocket, Woo! Woo! Woo!

  Chip , Ozzie , Gabey : We're gonna really sock it! Because tonight's the night

  Chip , Ozzie , Gabey , Brunhilde Esterhazy , Claire Huddesen , Ivy Smith : We're goin' on a toot, We're goin' to raise a riot, The Brooklyn Bridge, we'll buy it, And hit the heights tonight, Get high as kites tonight...

• Claire Huddesen : All right, specimen. Let's go primitive.

  [heads for the dance floor with Ozzie] 

• Brunhilde Esterhazy : I reckon you're stuck with us.

  Chip : Yeah! We're your pals, pal.

  [singing] 

  Chip : Oh, when you feel downhearted, You must remember this, Things never are, As bad as they could be, When friends have all departed, There's one you'll never miss, I'll be right with you, You can count on me

  Ozzie , Lucy Schmeeler , Claire Huddesen , Brunhilde Esterhazy : Yeah! You can count on me, You can count on me

  Chip : As the adding machine once said, "You can count on me"

  Ozzie , Lucy Schmeeler , Claire Huddesen , Brunhilde Esterhazy , Gabey : Oh...

• Chip : Gee, real champagne?

  Gabey : Yeah! Not cream soda, not celery tonic; but, real champagne.

  Ozzie : Oh, this is great. I've never had champagne before.

  Claire Huddesen : Ozzie, if you say the bubbles tickle your nose, I'll drown you!