A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Eleanor Parker: Christabel Sloane
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Quotes
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Patsy Clifford : I'd swoon in his arms, and strike up a conversation later.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : This can only be business.
Patsy Clifford : Well, then, give it to him, dope. Stop being legal aid and be lovely.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Rich or handsome, you won't find me running after any man.
Patsy Clifford : Oh, If every single girl felt like that, the race would've died out years ago.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : I'm afraid I wouldn't be very much good as a gold-digger. Anyway, he'll probably turn out to be 85 with one foot in the grave.
Patsy Clifford : Good! Then he won't last as long.
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Patsy Clifford : If he's over 50, he'll need a secretary to manage his money and... if he's under 50 and good looking... ch, ch.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Patsy, what are you trying to do to my principles? They're all I have left.
Patsy Clifford : Put 'em in mothballs.
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I know the name for you, Moonshine.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Moonshine? Do you think it fits me?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Like a glove. Yellow moon. Blond hair. You see, the word lunar is the Latin word for moon. Hence the word, lunacy. Uh, no offense.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : No offense.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, please. It's the only nice thing I own. Have a heart.
Repo Man : If I did, I'd be out of business.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, I, I feel like such a heel. I mean, about spending your honeymoon with you.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : It couldn't be helped. I don't suppose it's too unusual for people to drive into the ocean. That's life.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, this is insane.
Dr. Roland Cook : That's my racket. Let me do the thinking.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : To think that a piece of this cold earth flew off and created such a list of warm things like poetry...
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, trying to play on petty feminine jealousy, huh? Whadda we do?
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Peter Ulysses Lockwood : And I knew doc was wrong about... well, I mean, you would never commit suicide, would you?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Not unless you don't get to the point.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, a little blackmail? And a leading him on so that you can get your girl back?
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh, you know, the Indians have lyrics too.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Yes. I used them on my program last year for Lionel's Lozenges.
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Dr. Roland Cook : No. You play ball with me, and I won't tell him that you're a fortune hunter.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Well, I explained all that.
Dr. Roland Cook : And now you're forgetting all that. We tell him nothing.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : You mean you're not going to tell him about his two million?
Dr. Roland Cook : Not until we're good 'n ready.
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Dr. Roland Cook : Even in school, I was much brighter too.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Than who?
Dr. Roland Cook : Peter.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Oh.
Dr. Roland Cook : Had a better mind, was a think quinker.
[sic]
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Doctor, you're drunk.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Going back to her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Miss Chandler, to marry her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I suppose so... No! No!
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Good. They say all's fair, isn't it? In love and war, I mean? My stealing you from her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane , Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Miss Chandler.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh well, these things happen.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : [while they're necking passionately] Pete!
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Hmmm?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : How can you make love to me and still be in love with her?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Who?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Miss Chandler.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh...
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : How can you?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : I don't know.
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Dr. Roland Cook : You've got a feeling of rejection. So have I. Can't have my girl. Can't have my clinic. Poor people got a right to go crazy just like anybody else.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Doctor, there should be more men like you.
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Bar waiter : Excuse me, folks. That's the only bottle of tequila we have left. May I pour a drink from it?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Who for?
Bar waiter : [Gestures toward Peter near the fireplace] For the gentleman back there.
Dr. Roland Cook : The answer is 'No!' He's got his girl and he's got my girl and he may have two million dollars, but he may not have our tequila.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : What's he ever done for us?
Bar waiter : I understand. Thank you.
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Peter?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Hmmm?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : Are you doing this because the doctor asked you to, or because you want to?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Both.
[he kisses her passionately again]
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Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : I, I'm all confused. I can't be frank...
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : No.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : ...and tell you that I'm crazy about you but not crazy.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Of course not.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : What would be my place with the other woman?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : What other woman?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : In your life.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : Oh.
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : You're confused too, aren't you?
Peter Ulysses Lockwood : [nods his head and they kiss passionately] Uh, huh.
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Dr. Roland Cook : [referring to Peter] Are you afraid to take the bull by the horns?
Christabel 'Christy' Sloane : If you don't mind, he's already picked out his... his cow.
[fiddles with and drops a picture of June]