Bachelor in Paradise (1961)

Lana Turner: Rosemary Howard

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• Adam J. Niles : [after they arrive at the house he's just rented in Paradise]  It would be pink.

  Rosemary Howard : That's not pink. That's "California coral".

  Adam J. Niles : Who thinks up all the names of colors in this country, Tennessee Williams?

• Adam J. Niles : Now, let me see. You'll be my landlady and secretary, and I'll be your tenant and your boss.

  Rosemary Howard : A very involved relationship.

  Adam J. Niles : Yeah. You raise my rent, I'll lower your salary.

  Rosemary Howard : You lower my salary and I'll raise my voice!

• Rosemary Howard : [At a Hawaiian-themed restaurant, watching while the bartender is garnishing an elaborate cocktail]  Is he a bartender or a landscape architect?

  Adam J. Niles : He's an artist! Would you care for a "Scorpion's Kiss"?

  Rosemary Howard : Oh, is that what they call 'em?

  Adam J. Niles : Mm hmm... And this is a "Bikini".

  Rosemary Howard : That's an odd name for a drink: "Bikini".

  Adam J. Niles : That's because there's not much to it, but it hits the right spots.

  Rosemary Howard : [starting to giggle]  Oh. Well, I've had two, and I don't feel a thing.

  Adam J. Niles : Oh, we better get you another one.

  Adam J. Niles : [Calling to the bartender]  Hey, innkeeper, another brace of Bikinis, please.

  Bartender : Sorry, sir, only two to a customer.

  Rosemary Howard : Oh, come on!

  Bartender : Sorry, ma'am. That's a very powerful drink. There's an old Tahitian saying: "Okka noku pama, talla peeno pulla okka".

  Rosemary Howard : Oh... Just what does that old Tahitian mean by that?

  Bartender : Who knows? I'm from San Francisco.

  Adam J. Niles : Loopholes everywhere!

• Adam J. Niles : What do you say we break out of here tonight and let me take you to dinner?

  Rosemary Howard : Thank you, but I have a business appointment.

  Adam J. Niles : Oh... What about tomorrow night? Lonely bachelors should stick together, don't you think?

  Rosemary Howard : Oh, definitely! And if I find one that I think you'd like, I'll let you know, Mr. Adams. Good bye!

• Rosemary Howard : There are two bedrooms, but only one is furnished.

  Adam J. Niles : One is all a bachelor needs if he works it right.

• Rosemary Howard : Mrs. Brown saw you and Dolores leaving together.

  Adam J. Niles : We could have used her at Pearl Harbor.

• Adam J. Niles : I'm a pussycat.

  Rosemary Howard : From the gossip around here, you're a Tomcat.

• Rosemary Howard : How would you like a full-time secretary?

  Adam J. Niles : What red-blooded American boy wouldn't?

• Rosemary Howard : Aristotle said the high-minded man is more interested in the truth, than what people believe.

  Thomas W. Jynson : Aristotle doesn't live in Paradise,

• Rosemary Howard : No woman really wants to make love platonically, just for fun.

• Rosemary Howard : I'm no longer an employee of Paradise Village Inc.

  Adam J. Niles : You quit!

  Rosemary Howard : I did. I won't work for any man after he fires me.

  Adam J. Niles : Well, I admire your spirit - among other things.

• Rosemary Howard : But most women in Paradise have husbands and children.

  Adam J. Niles : A lot of families get started that way.

• Rosemary Howard : If you're so disenchanted with the house Mr. Adams, I'll be happy to tear up the lease.

  Adam J. Niles : Oh, no. Don't do that. It's not a bad little cracker box, at all.

  Rosemary Howard : 100 Million Americans would love to live in this cracker box.

  Adam J. Niles : That would make it crowded, wouldn't?

• Rosemary Howard : Don't you worry about it, Mr. Adams. Ours is purely a business arrangement. You rented my house, not me.

• Adam J. Niles : What's the matter? Don't you think I'm worth half a chicken?

  Rosemary Howard : Well, frankly, I haven't thought of you in terms of chickens. In fact, I haven't thought of you, period. Good day.

• Adam J. Niles : Come on! You don't think I'd ask a girl to come up to her own house to see her own etchings.

  Rosemary Howard : Probably, if you thought you could get away with it.

• Adam J. Niles : We're conducting a cultural exchange. Daily discussions of life, love, and the pursuit. It seems to have had a bracing effect on the community.

  Rosemary Howard : I understand there's a quite run on girdles lately.

• Adam J. Niles : Well, hello. Come on in, Miss Howard. Or, would you feel safer if I came out?

  Rosemary Howard : Your discussion group will be here soon and there's safety in numbers.

  Adam J. Niles : Not if the numbers are 38-22-34.

• Rosemary Howard : Then there's still a chance that some poor girl may marry you?

  Adam J. Niles : A rich girl will have a better chance.

• Rosemary Howard : I'm not a woman to you. I'm a guinea pig.

• Rosemary Howard : A wise man once wrote that a man wants to be a woman's first love; but, women have a more subtle instinct. They want to be sure they're a man's last.

• Adam J. Niles : You quit?

  Rosemary Howard : I did. I won't work for any man after he fires me.

• Adam J. Niles : It's very attractive. Even the termites seem to like it.

  Rosemary Howard : That's pecky Cypress. It's quite the rage.

• Rosemary Howard : Have you been a bachelor all your life?

  Adam J. Niles : I was engaged once, at the age of seven, but what I thought were the pangs of love turned out to be measles.