Shall We Dance (1937)

Ginger Rogers: Linda Keene

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• Linda Keene : What are the grounds for divorce in this state?

  Clerk : Marriage.

• Newsboy : [shouting]  Petrov and Keene: secret marriage!

  Peter P. Peters : We're the only two people in New York who don't think we're married.

  Linda Keene : Think? I know we're not.

  Peter P. Peters : I'm beginning to have my doubts.

• Peter P. Peters aka Petrov : Isn't it wonderful being here tonight like this, still on the same boat together.

  Linda Keene : Oh, I seldom change boats mid ocean.

• Linda Keene : I'm just a bowl in a gold of fish!

  Arthur Miller : You mean a fish in a bowl of gold.

  Linda Keene : That's what I said, a bowl in a goldfish!

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all said we'd never get together. Darling, let's take a bow. For ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh, now?

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar. Ford and his Lizzie, kept the laughers busy. That's how people are.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They told Marconi, wireless was a phony. It's the same old cry.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  You like Havana and I like Havahna. You eat banana and I eat banahna. Havana, Havahna, banana, banahna. Let's call the whole thing off.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the world was round.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  You say laughter and I say lawfter. You say after and I say awfter. Laughter, lawfter, after, awfter. Let's call the whole thing off.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  The odds were a hundred to one against me. The world thought the heights were too high to climb. But people from Missouri never incensed me. Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned, for from history I had learned, how many, many times the worm had turned.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed at Rockefeller Center. Now they're fighting to get in.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They laughed at me wanting you, said it would be, 'Hello, goodbye.' But oh, you came through. Now they're eating humble pie.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  But oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must part. And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all said we never would be happy. They laughed at us and how. But ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh now?

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother, when they said that man could fly.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  They laughed at me wanting you, said I was reaching for the moon. But oh, you came through. Now they'll have to change their tune.

• Linda Keene : [singing]  So, if you like oysters and I like ersters, I'll take oysters and give up ersters. For we know we need each other, so we better call the calling off off. Let's call the whole thing off.