I Love Melvin (1953)

Donald O'Connor: Melvin Hoover

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Quotes 

• Judy : They want me to marry Harry Flack!

  Melvin : Judy, you can't! I-I love you, Judy!

  Judy : Shh... Melvin...

  Melvin : You're not gonna do it, are you?

  Judy : Well, you see...

  Melvin : Because if you do it, I'll be very frank about this, Judy. If you do it, I'll kill myself!

  Judy : Melvin! Stop it!

  Melvin : I mean it! Judy, you know how I feel! I'd do anything for you! I'd rob a bank, I'd take a rocket to the moon, anything! Just ask me!

  Judy : Put me on the cover! My picture, on the cover of the magazine!

  Melvin : Judy, I said I'd kill myself or take a rocket to the moon, but don't ask the impossible!

• Judy : Harry Flack is coming to dinner Monday night.

  Melvin : Oh. Well, that's simple. Poison him.

  Judy : He wants to talk to Pop! He's going to propose!

  Melvin : Propose! To your father?

• Melvin : [Extending his hand]  Oh, I'm Melvin Hoover, "Look."

  Mr. Schneider : Look at what?

• Melvin : I'm sorry. Did I hurt you?

  Judy : Melvin, you always leap at me. You don't have to leap at me. Look.

  [gives Melvin a long kiss] 

• Mergo : You got a cover idea? What is it?

  Melvin : A girl!

  Mergo : Oh joy! Now THERE is an earth-shaking notion! A girl on the cover of a magazine! They'll go mad, I tell you, mad!

  Melvin : But this girl's different!

  Mergo : What's she got, three eyes?

  [Picks up and drinks from a beaker] 

  Melvin : Oh no, no, you see...

  [yelling] 

  Melvin : Mr. Mergo that's hypo!

  Mergo : [Gasps]  That's what I call a lousy drink.

• Mergo : What are you grinning about?

  Melvin : Oh, nothing, just happy.

  Mergo : Well, don't let me catch you being happy around me!

• Mr. Schneider : Have some food!

  Melvin : No, thanks, not on an empty stomach.

• Judy , Melvin : [singing]  Much to my regret, My heart is just an apple cart that's waiting to be upset, For we have never met -...

• Melvin : Miss LaRoy, I'd like to take pictures of you sometime.

  Judy : Really?

  Harry Flack : Why?

  Melvin : Well, look at her. She has some very interesting possibilities.

  [Harry looks her over] 

  Melvin : I'm thinking in terms of a layout for the magazine. Maybe a two-page spread.

• Melvin : [singing]  Where, oh where, oh where did you learn to--how do you do twists? How do you do turns? You better take care or the carpet'll burn, Where, oh where, oh where, did you learn to dance?

• Melvin : I think we ought to broaden the scope of the layout.

  Judy : You mean more poses?

• Melvin : Be with you a minute, Mrs. Menafee. By the way, is that zoo stuff back?

  Miss Menafee : Yes and Mr. Mergo says get off your pelvic bone and rush it upstairs before you're fired.

• Judy : Melvin, you bit my ear!

  Melvin : Oh, I'm sorry. Let me see.

  Judy : Is it bleeding?

  Melvin : No, it's just scratched, that's all. Oh, this is one of my bad days. I don't even know how to kiss a girl,

  Judy : Ah, it wasn't so bad. You just picked the wrong spot.

• Melvin : [singing]  I wanna wander, I wanna wander here and yonder...

• Melvin : [singing]  I wanna wander, There's nothin' else of which I'm fonder...

• Melvin : How long does it take them to decide on a cover anyway? You look at a picture. Yes. No. Right? You look at another picture. Yes. No. Right?

  Miss Menafee : Right.

• Judy : [singing]  Call me Judy!

  Melvin : Judy, you deserve, an Anatomy Award.

  Judy : Huh?