Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Milton Berle: Nifty Allen

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Quotes 

• Nifty Allen : [as he plummets down a snowy mountainside on skis, totally out of control]  Calling Doctor Kildare - prepare for surgery!

• Miss Carstairs : Pardon me, could you spare ten cents for the Skiers Aid Society?

  Nifty Allen : There you are.

  Miss Carstairs : Thanks. Say, you know I go for you.

  Nifty Allen : You do? Haven't you got a boyfriend?

  Miss Carstairs : I got 18 boyfriends!

  Nifty Allen : 18? All told?

  Miss Carstairs : No. One kept his mouth shut.

• Nifty Allen : Didn't you tell me you wanted to be a father?

  Ted Scott : Yeah, but I want to do it my way.

• Ted Scott : I didn't know her eyes were blue. I always figured they were kind of hazel.

  Phil Corey : Ah, get her off your mind, will ya. I've been dreamin' about her for days.

  Nifty Allen : She's the kind of girls I've been dreamin' about, but, you see the kind I get.

• Nifty Allen : Here Officer, Number 36. Where is it?

  Customs Officer : Right here.

  Nifty Allen : [expecting a child refugee, instead its a young woman]  Thirty-six? There's something wrong. That must be her chest measurements.

• Nifty Allen : Figure it out.

  Ted Scott : You figure it out!

• Nifty Allen : Now, what would you do in Sun Valley where the temperatures 106 below zero and the snow's up to your neck.

  Karen Benson : Snow? Is it like that?

  Nifty Allen : Everyday, except when it's a blizzard, then it's worse.

• Karen Benson : Ted doesn't like snow either, does he?

  Nifty Allen : Are you kiddin'? He has Eskimo blood. The way he shoots around on those turned-up bed slats, you'd think they were roller skates. Up and down the mountain. Woo-woo!

  Karen Benson : And Miss Dawn, she likes to ski too?

  Nifty Allen : Her? You couldn't get her near an electric icebox.

• Phil Corey : Boy, is she burnin'!

  Nifty Allen : What do you mean, burnin'? You could ski right down the ice on her back.

• Nifty Allen : Ah, honey, that was immense. You gotta teach me how to do that pretzel dance.

• Nifty Allen : Hey, suppose they have to stay in a ski hut all night? That's be terrible. Karen'd be compromised and I'm engaged to her. Think of my position.

  Vivian Dawn : I am thinking and it isn't of *your* position!

• Nifty Allen : We'll all have a Sauerbraten mit Spatzen, cheesecake und beer. How's that?

  Phil Corey : Sounds terrible. I'll have a steak.