Easy to Wed (1946)

Van Johnson: Bill Stevens Chandler

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• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : You're too modest. Why, you're a woman of great depths, depths that have never been plumbed.

  Gladys Benton : [referring to her boyfriend]  No, Warren's not much of a plumber.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : [referring to the sham wedding just performed]  How much do I owe you?

  Mr. H.O. Dibson - Justice of the Peace : Well, anything you think it's worth.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : [Handing the Justice money]  There's two dollars.

  [Gladys looks outraged, then disgusted] 

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Now, here's the plan. The Allenburys are in Mexico City. I'll take a plane down there, register at the same hotel, meet the girl. Perhaps she comes to my room.

  Warren Haggerty : What?

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Just for a cocktail, of course. All perfectly innocent to her, to me, to everybody at the hotel - except to our private detective who wires my wife.

  Warren Haggerty : You got a wife?

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Well, not of my own, but we'll hire some attractive girl to marry me.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I know all about he: spoiled, arrogant, engaged to a different guy every month. The crown princess of Café Society. That's her reputation. And she thinks it's worth 2 million? When I get through, she'll take 2 cents - in Japanese money.

• Spike Dolan : That Allenbury girl is as pretty as a picture and I accentuate - the positive.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Yeah and that's the little picture we're gonna frame.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Not bad.

  Warren Haggerty : Not bad at all.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Nice legs.

  Warren Haggerty : You keep her legs out of it.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : They come with her, don't they?

• Gladys Benton : [to Warren]  I've taken plenty from you but this is the end. Marrying me off to another guy, to this blond baboon.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Baboons are very smart. They can do anything a man can do.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I thought I was rather clever.

  Connie Allenbury : Yes, I thought you thought so.

• J.B. Allenbury : Yes, Muscovys have their points, but give me a Canadian honker. I know, my boy. I have a hunting lodge up in Canada and...

  Connie Allenbury : Father, shall we say duck?

  J.B. Allenbury : Duck.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Duck.

  Connie Allenbury : Duck.

  Headwaiter : Duck.

• Connie Allenbury : You're very much at home on the dance floor, aren't you?

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : When I have a partner like you, yes. You're as light as thistledown.

  Connie Allenbury : Deceiving things, thistles. They're really quite prickly.

• Connie Allenbury : Mrs. Burns Norvell and her daughter, Barbara.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : How do you do?

  Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Babs, to you.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : The operator in the bedroom has much nicer voice.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I do hope you have daiquiri cocktails. They're my *favorite*.

  Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I only have champagne cocktails.

  Barbara 'Babs' Norvell : Oh, well, that's my *new* favorite.

• Connie Allenbury : Live and learn, says I, Connie, my pet. Next time, don't bet on men.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Don't apologize for suspecting people, Connie. Keep right on. Ring every coin you meet. There are lots of wooden nickels in circulation.

• Connie Allenbury : I'm a very remarkable girl.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I'm beginning to think you're right.

  Connie Allenbury : There are many sides to my nature, young man. Depths you little dream of.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : I'll make a study.

  Connie Allenbury : Do.

• Gladys Benton : Pour me another glass of bubbly.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Quote, "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble," unquote. Macbeth.

  Gladys Benton : My grandfather's name was MacSweeney.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Oh, what's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  Gladys Benton : That's my grandmother.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Who?

  Gladys Benton : Rose. Rose MacSweeney.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Oh, well, let's drink to the old girl.

  Gladys Benton : Let's just drink, period.

• William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Come, my fair Ophelia. Let us down the sweet draught of Bacchus.

  Gladys Benton : What's that?

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : That's Shakespeare for "bottoms up."

• Warren Haggerty : What do you think I was gonna pay you $50,000 for, to make love to my girl?

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : If the necessity arose, yes.

• Gladys Benton : I don't wanna play Ophelia. I wanna play Hamlet.

  William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler : Why?

  Gladys Benton : Because Hamlet wears tights and I'm terrific in tights. Did you ever see me in tights? I'm pretty.