Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

Joan Evans: Mary Kate Yarbrough

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Quotes 

• Mr. Yarbrough : How was Dick? How did he act?

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Nervous.

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : I'm going to unload my things and then run into town for a little unfeminine fresh air.

• Una Yancy : I have come to a decision. If we're all we've got, there's something wrong.

  Whitney Young : You're so right.

  Whitney Young , Una Yancy : [singing]  Enough is enough, We're sick of this stuff, We're tellin' you Bub, That this is the rub

  Whitney Young , Una Yancy , Mary Kate Yarbrough : We've gotta go out and get ourselves a guy! It's time we all went out on an amorous bender, Went out and got loaded up with the opposite gender...

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : Without Dick? It's different for you.

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : [after being jilted at the alter by Dick]  He said, "Don't you feel as if you're missing something? Wouldn't you like to travel, see things, and live a little?"

  Mr. Yarbrough : What did you answer?

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Well, I said, "Dear, I want to do anything you want to do."

  Mr. Yarbrough : Well, that's certainly the right answer.

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : I don't want anybody to do me a favor and marry me because I'm helpless and spineless and a dope!

  Dick Hallson : I never said you were a dope.

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Well, I was. Only, I'm not going to be any more.

• Whitney Young : Is that Dick?

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Until I get through with him, that's Dick.

  [Whitney laughs] 

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : What's so funny?

  Whitney Young : Nothing, Tiger woman. Nothing at all.

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : He told her how wonderful she was and how sorry he was even such a boob.

• Whitney Young : You're both a couple of goodies.

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Well, come with us if we're such goodies.

  Una Yancy : Oh, please, Whit.

• Mary Kate Yarbrough : It's awful when nothing comes of something.