Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Debbie Reynolds: Suzy Doolittle

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• Suzy Doolittle : Golly, other girls go out with boys!

  Mrs. Doolittle : You're not like other girls. You have a gift. Its time enough to think about boys when you're - 25 or 30.

  Suzy Doolittle : Twenty-five? I'll be dead by then.

• Suzy Doolittle : [singing]  Give a girl a break, Give a girl a break, Give a girl a break

• Mrs. Doolittle : Oh, Suzy, I've got to admit it, he's a lovely boy.

  Suzy Doolittle : A *man*, mother. A man!

  Mrs. Doolittle : Ohh, Suzy.

• Bob Dowdy : Suzy, you don't know how wonderful it is to meet someone like you. Someone I can, converse with.

  Suzy Doolittle : That's the way I feel too. Everything's so crazy nowadays, that there's so many things I'd like to ask you, things I couldn't talk to my mother about. Like, for instance, rocket ships and what if you get to like someone and the first thing you know, he might have to go off and, or, all sorts of things.

  Bob Dowdy : Yeah.

  [singing] 

  Bob Dowdy : The state of the world is such, That the world is in quite a state! But let's not worry too much, Let the rest of the world debate, Right now the thing to discuss, Is the wonderful status of us! The state of our union, Hearts in communion, Never will know any foreign entanglements, Outsiders will not rate, In our united state...