Lovely to Look At (1952)

Howard Keel: Tony Naylor

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• Tony Naylor : We're trying to finance our show. I'd like to take you folks in as partners. Now, please don't rush but who'd like to be the first to write a check?

  Jerry Ralby : Of course, we've just given you the highlights.

  Al Marsh : And we got some terrific lowlights. Like the part when I play a 36 inch man dropped from a flying saucer, I zoom through the...

  Tony Naylor : It's dynamite!

• Tony Naylor : Look, we figure that the sash and girdle business is no spot for show people.

• Tony Naylor : No wonder business is bad. Women come to these places to be made alluring! Look at that sketch. It wouldn't lure a sailor his first day off the boat!

• Tony Naylor : Paris isn't bricks and steel and mortar. Paris is a beautiful woman! The perfect hostess. She dines you, wines you, entertains you. She sees to it that you meet someone wonderful. And then after you fall in love, she discreetly leaves you alone.

• Tony Naylor : [singing]  You're devastating and so far above me, To think of mating I never could dare...

• Tony Naylor : She owns a small piece of our piece of your piece.

• Bubbles Cassidy : You've got a lot of nerve. What do you think I am? A bodyguard or something?

  Tony Naylor : But, Bubbles, baby...

  Bubbles Cassidy : Don't you baby Bubbles me!

• Tony Naylor : Don't you see? The girl's designing the dresses. The dresses will get us dough for the show. Looking after her means looking after your investment.

  Bubbles Cassidy : I like her designs; but, I'm not so sure about yours!

• Tony Naylor : Now, look, don't you think I should take her home, make sure she gets there?

  Bubbles Cassidy : Let Al take her home! He's in the taxi, waiting for her.

  Tony Naylor : He's in no shape to be trusted.

  Bubbles Cassidy : I see, so Al's gonna take me home?

  Tony Naylor : Nah, I wouldn't let him. You're gonna take him home.

  Bubbles Cassidy : I got a better I idea. I'll take her home and you take him home.

  Tony Naylor : That is a good idea. We'll try it next time.

• Al Marsh : How many choruses are there to this thing anyway?

  Tony Naylor : Seventy-six.

  Al Marsh : Oh, that's the spirit!

• Tony Naylor : [Looking at the dress shop catalog]  Now, there's a little number calculated to drive a man clean out of his mind. Who dreamed that one up?

  Stephanie : I did. That was designed for the Baroness de Risor, our oldest customer.

  Tony Naylor : And when she dies, you're out of business, huh?

• Tony Naylor : [When his girlfriend arrives unexpectedly from America]  This is, uh, Miss Stephanie, uh, Bubbles Cassidy. She, uh, owns a small piece of, uh, our piece, of... your piece.