Show Boat (1951)

Howard Keel: Gaylord Ravenal

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• Gaylord Ravenal : [borrowing Magnolia's jewels so that he can pawn them]  Don't worry darling, it's only temporary. I'll get them back for you.

  Magnolia : Everything can be temporary - -except us.

• Gaylord Ravenal : [looking down on the Show Boat on the Mississippi River]  There's a lot of water down there, eh, boy?

  Black Country Boy : Yes, sah. Where ye all come?

  Gaylord Ravenal : Some place as goin', son.

  Black Country Boy : Tears, huh?

  [Gaylord laughs] 

• Gaylord Ravenal : Why do you want to be an actress?

  Magnolia : Why? Well, I mean, well, the ordinary person wouldn't understand. I mean, that is, a person outside the profession.

  Gaylord Ravenal : No? Well, you want to be an actress because it makes everything become true - every exciting thing you ever heard about, even if its make believe. Isn't that it?

  Magnolia : Yes, that is it. How did you know?

  Gaylord Ravenal : For instance, right now, you'd like to be Romeo and Juliet.

• Magnolia : How are your others?

  Gaylord Ravenal : Huh? What's that, honey?

  Magnolia : Your other bets! Yesterday's and last night's and all those "one last round before we break it up" bets! Were they just as good?

• Gaylord Ravenal : [singing]  Couldn't you?

  Magnolia : Couldn't I?

  Gaylord Ravenal , Magnolia : Couldn't we?

  Gaylord Ravenal : Make believe our lips are blending, In a phantom kiss, or two, or three...

• Gaylord Ravenal : Captain and Mrs. Hawks, allow me. Ravenal. Gaylord Revenal, of the Tennessee Ravenals.

• Cap'n Andy Hawks : You've met my wife, I believe.

  Gaylord Ravenal : A repeated pleasure, Mrs. Hawks.

  Cap'n Andy Hawks : And my daughter, Magnolia.

  Gaylord Ravenal : Only in make believe.

• Gaylord Ravenal : It's dead waste to stay cooped up here in this penny ante existence. Nolie's meant for the life and happiness of the world.

• Gaylord Ravenal : I don't want your pretties, angel. I don't need them.

• Gaylord Ravenal : Now, you wait. I'm a lucky boy. Having you is proof enough, isn't it? I'll get another stake, and we'll be walking on tall air again.

• Julie : Maybe you're sorry because you're some kind of rat!

  Gaylord Ravenal : All right, all right, so I'm a rat. Now, go to bed.

  Julie : Oh, no. Please, mister. I was talking about myself maybe. Lots of rats come off show boats. On-stage, under stage, sneaking off, kicked off. Kicked off. Taking things with them, taking nothing. Me, mister, I was on one once too.

• Croupier : How did they call you Kim?

  Gaylord Ravenal : It's a geographical name.

  Croupier : Geographical?

  Gaylord Ravenal : The stork dropped me plop in the middle of the river.

  Croupier : Right in the middle of the river?

  Gaylord Ravenal : Uh-huh. Right between Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri.

  Croupier : Oh, I see. K-l-M. Oh, that's very pretty. And did your - your mommy fish you out?

  Gaylord Ravenal : No. My grandpa did. He swims more better.