The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

June Allyson: Martha Terryton

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Quotes 

• Greg Rawlings : Oh, an artist! Well.

  [looking at a charcoal drawing] 

  Greg Rawlings : Who is this dasher?

  Martha Terryton : That's Bruce Johnson, our manual training teacher.

  Greg Rawlings : No nudes?

  Martha Terryton : Certainly not!

• Martha Terryton : He's really a fine man. Quite intelligent. And he's so capable with his hands. You should see the home he designed for the white-breasted nuthatch.

• Martha Terryton : [unknowingly intoxicated]  You blew in my ear.

  Greg Rawlings : Yes, I did.

  Martha Terryton : Well, don't you think that its a little bit intimate?

  Greg Rawlings : Yes, I do.

  Martha Terryton : Oh, well, I'm glad you agreed with me. What was I saying?

  Greg Rawlings : Tendencies.

  Martha Terryton : Tendence? Oh, the tendencies. Viligance. Ever viligant. You did it again.

  Greg Rawlings : I couldn't resist. After all, I'm only flesh.

• Greg Rawlings : How about a short beer?

  Martha Terryton : I couldn't help overhearing your conversation with Mr. McGrath. You promised to go home. Certainly I have no intention on starting you out on another debauch.

  Greg Rawlings : On one short beer?

• Greg Rawlings : Look, honey, what you and I need is a long, cool bracer. Let's slip around the corner to the Oasis.

  Martha Terryton : What?

  Greg Rawlings : It's a cocktail bar with palm trees.

  Martha Terryton : Certainly not!

  Greg Rawlings : Oh, it has a pale moon. But, we could turn it off.

• John McGrath : Miss Terryton, before you condemn a man, isn't only fair to give him an impartial trial? Isn't it just common decency to hear his side of the story? Is that not - the American way?

  Martha Terryton : He didn't get me pie-eyed the American way! Huh!

• Martha Terryton : You know, if there's anything I can't abide, it's a mercenary woman.

• Greg Rawlings : Her name is Matilda Smith. She has soft hair, hard eyes, clear skin, good teeth, and long legs. I first saw her on April 15th, some years ago. It was a very romantic meeting. She paid my bar check. Three days later we were infatuated. We went to several interesting phases. Her name is now Mrs. David S. Oliver, widow of David S. Oliver, of Oahu, an island in the Hawaiian group. At the moment she is sitting on something in the neighborhood of 20 million pineapples and feels fine.

  Martha Terryton : I didn't mean to pry. How old was Danny when he lost his mother? Where was he born?

• John McGrath : Miss Terryton, is it possible that you've been drinking?

  Martha Terryton : Certainly not! But, a little. Some. I'm pie-eyed!

• Martha Terryton : He took me to a Grotto.

  John McGrath : A Grotto?

  Miss Doberly : Joe's.

  John McGrath : Oh.

  Martha Terryton : And he blew in my earrrrrrrrrrr.

  [starts crying] 

• Martha Terryton : Were you happy?

  Greg Rawlings : Oh, we had our ups and our downs. Our smiles and our tears.

  Martha Terryton : We all do.

  Greg Rawlings : But, it was fun. It was good! A few mad, wild years. A Tramp Steamer, a Chinese junk, now and then a dress up voyage in an Ocean Liner. Paris, Istanbul, the Grand Canal, Spokane.

  Martha Terryton : Oh my, what an exciting life you've had. The color and the romance!

  Greg Rawlings : Mrs. Rawlings had hair just like yours; but, she wore it down and curled at the end.

  Martha Terryton : You are a-lonesome, aren't you?

• Greg Rawlings : Oh, put your hair back up in that bun and stop yapping!

  Martha Terryton : Yapping?

  Greg Rawlings : Yes, yapping.

  Martha Terryton : Well! I should think you'd appreciate some advice. After all, I've had enough varied experience.

  Greg Rawlings : In what? Bird walks? You know what you are? A fussbudget.

  Martha Terryton : Well, really.

  Greg Rawlings : A frustrated, narrow-minded, Vermont bluenose.

  Martha Terryton : Stop!

  Greg Rawlings : Stop? I haven't even started yet. I'll bet you've never even been kissed, have you?

  [kiss] 

  Martha Terryton : Oh!

  Greg Rawlings : There. I thought not, you spinster.

• Martha Terryton : Once more, if I chose to wear my hair in a bun, I shall do so!

  Greg Rawlings : I don't care if you dye it green and cut it off!

• Greg Rawlings : Say, you have talent.

  Martha Terryton : Do I?

  Greg Rawlings : Uh-huh. Where'd you get it?

  Martha Terryton : My father.

  Greg Rawlings : Oh, I bet she was a beautiful woman.

  Martha Terryton : Who?

  Greg Rawlings : Your mother.

  [kiss] 

• Martha Terryton : Oh, it's going to be good. I'll make it good!

• John McGrath : Off the record, your bull was the best by far.

  Martha Terryton : Oh, thank you. I just tried to think as a child thinks.

• Martha Terryton : What you need is a cup of coffee.

  Greg Rawlings : Oh, you're so right. A cup of coffee, then home to my typewriter. I wonder if I could.

  Martha Terryton : Well, of course you can.

  Greg Rawlings : Oh, but you wouldn't have a cup with me?

  Martha Terryton : Oh, I... I'm afraid not.

  Greg Rawlings : That's always the way isn't it? One needs a helping hand, a grain of sympathy - one gets advice. Talk is cheap.