Les Girls (1957)

Gene Kelly: Barry Nichols

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• Joy Henderson : Would you like a glass of water?

  Barry Nichols : Why, do you want to soak your feet?

• Joy Henderson : Barry, remember what the doctor told you!

  Barry Nichols : The doctor told me not to dance. I'm not gonna dance.

• Barry Nichols : Look, I'm not a potato! I'm a man you're supposed to be in love with.

  Angèle Ducros : I wish you were a potato! I'm hungry.

• Barry Nichols : Well, you're now one of Les Girls.

  Angèle Ducros : Oh, merci! Merci!

  Angèle Ducros : Oh là là.

• Barry Nichols : When l hired Mimi, she crossed the stage like - like her rear end was made out of old Venetian glass.

• Barry Nichols : Have you any idea how much time l put in day and night teaching her how to dance?

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Especially nights.

  Barry Nichols : lf l need jokes, l'll hire a comedian.

• Barry Nichols : [singing]  I simply adore; And every day more; Les Girls, Les Girls, Les Girls; Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls!

• Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Don't you ever knock before you walk into a room?

  Barry Nichols : What for? You got secrets?

• Angèle Ducros : Haven't you seen the way she watches you?

  Barry Nichols : Yeah, she watches me for a chance to sneak out for a snort.

• Angèle Ducros : Does anything happen to you when l touch you, Barry?

  Barry Nichols : You set off a fire alarm.

• Barry Nichols : She hates me!

  Angèle Ducros : She loves you.

• Barry Nichols : You really think she's gone on me?

• Angèle Ducros : Oh, l can't talk when you kiss me.

  Barry Nichols : Well, l can't kiss you when you talk.

• Barry Nichols , Lady Sybil Wren : [singing]  I've got to say, In everyday, You're just too, too...

• Barry Nichols : You know, old man, if this is meant to be a bribe - l'm definitely interested.

• Lady Sybil Wren : l don't mind being compared to a hoot owl. They're rather sweet. But, well, you don't really think of me as ''cold-blooded,'' do you? I mean, all Americans think the English are.

  Barry Nichols : Oh, no, no. The English - now, take the Latins, they light up like a paper fire. You're more like hard coal.

  Lady Sybil Wren : Heavy and lumpy. Thanks.

  Barry Nichols : No, no, no. Hard coal is slow to burn, but once it starts - there's quite a blaze.

  Lady Sybil Wren : And for a long time.

• Lady Sybil Wren : You won't believe me, but l didn't like you when l first met you.

  Barry Nichols : And now?

  Lady Sybil Wren : Now you make me feel little and helpless and tiny and frail. All the absurd things that l know l'm not.

• Barry Nichols : [singing]  You're just too luscious, too very, very sweet!

  Lady Sybil Wren : Oh, you're just too sexy when you turn on the heat!

• Barry Nichols : It's the story of my life. Even when l was a kid, if l brought a sick puppy home, it bit me.

• Barry Nichols : lt wouldn't hurt you two girls to stay home once in a while. Stay home once in a while and read a book, because, well, in this business you need a lot of rest.

  Lady Sybil Wren : Dear old Dad forgets that his little girls have blossomed into womanhood.

• Barry Nichols : [singing]  I'm flippin' for a chick that I just can't forget, It turns out she's a blonde. I like 'em jet brunette, So why am I so gone about that gal?

• Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Barry, what do you want to talk about?

  Barry Nichols : Books, vegetables, cauliflower, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, l don't care!

• Barry Nichols : There. Was I all right?

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : You were a perfect little gentleman. I promise not to tell. I know what your reputation means to you.

• Barry Nichols : lt takes a rat to think like a rat. Gentlemen, l give you: Les Girls.

• Barry Nichols : Where'd you get that dress?

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : l bought it for your party.

  Barry Nichols : How do you like that?

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : l wanted to look especially nice for you.

  Barry Nichols : It's beautiful. Beautiful.

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : Yeah.

  Barry Nichols : What is it? ls it silk?

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : No. Peau d'ange.

  Barry Nichols : Peau d'ange. Angel skin. lt sure feels like it.

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : lt cost a fortune.

  Barry Nichols : Not much back to it.

  Joanne 'Joy' Henderson : With this kind of a dress, you know, you're paying for what they leave out.

• [last lines] 

  Barry Nichols : Here we go again.

• Barry Nichols : [singing]  Her figure is a poem when she starts to dance...