Bathing Beauty (1944)

Red Skelton: Steve Elliot

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Quotes 

• Professor Hendricks : Are we keeping you awake, Mr. Elliot?

  Steve Elliot : Barely.

• Steve Elliot : [on the phone]  You've got to connect me. She's my husband. I mean, I'm her wife.

• Steve Elliot : [kisses Caroline]  Gee, it's fun to be people.

• Steve Elliot : I'll never write another boogie-woogie tune as long as I live. With you as my inspiration, I can write important music like symphonies and tone poems or sonatas.

• Carlos Ramirez : She was at the travel window buying a ticket.

  Steve Elliot : Well, ticket for what? You know where she was going?

  Carlos Ramirez : I don't remember. Something like, a cow.

  Steve Elliot : Cow? Don't tell me she went to Moscow?

  Carlos Ramirez : No.

  Steve Elliot : Istanbul?

  Carlos Ramirez : No. Is there some such place as Jersey?

  Steve Elliot : Well, there's New Jersey. That's were Victoria College is. She's gone back to her old job.

• Steve Elliot : How many demerits for kissing a teacher?

  Caroline Brooks : Enough to expel you, you wolf!

• Steve Elliot : Where's George?

  Harry James : Out with a posse looking for you.

• Jean Allenwood : [singing]  Don't you get a tingle, Whenever our voices mingle?

  Steve Elliot : You've heard that Sinatra fellow

  Jean Allenwood : I swoon when he gets mellow

  Steve Elliot : Well, anything he can do I can do, Accompanied slightly by you

  Jean Allenwood : I'll take the high note, And you take the low note, And we'll make sweet music together...

• Mme. Zarka : Well, come in, Mr. Elliott.

  Steve Elliot : No, I don't think I'd better.

  Mme. Zarka : Will you please come in? We have no time to play the hide-and-the-seek, Mr. Elliott. Come in!

  [Mr. Elliot enters in a pink tutu] 

  Mme. Zarka : Well, well, well, look who's here. Mr. Apollo.

  [slapping each named body part] 

  Mme. Zarka : Stomach in. Chest out. Shoulders back. Head up.

• Steve Elliot : I'm dressed like a dame to escape a Dane.

• Steve Elliot : I'm gonna knock that petunia-presser right on his trapeoliums.

• Bunny : [racing in with two other sorority sisters]  Steven Elliott, your hour has come. You've been chosen to join the order of the wise and worthy witches of Alpha Nu. Okay, kids! Give him the business.

  [others start paddling Steve's behind] 

  Steve Elliot : Now, wait a minute. What? Oh! Oh, why don't you girls pick on somebody your size?

  [knock at the door] 

  Bunny : Gosh, who's that?

  Steve Elliot : I don't know, but, I think it's one of your teachers.

  Bunny : Jeepers! How'll we get out of here?

  Steve Elliot : I don't know. You're witches, figure it out for yourself.

• George Adams : [referring to Caroline]  Wait a minute, Steve. How does she look in a bathing suit?

  Steve Elliot : How does she look in a bathing suit?

  [looks into the camera] 

  Steve Elliot : Is he kidding?