The Wayward Bus (1957)

Joan Collins: Alice Chicoy

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• Alice Chicoy : You're too good lookin' to be off by yourself without me.

  Johnny Chicoy : Just remember, nothing ever happens on a 50-mile bus ride to be jealous of. Miss me?

  Alice Chicoy : Yes. I married you to be with you. Because I couldn't take my eyes off of you. I still can't, Johnny. I'd die if you ever walked out on me.

  Johnny Chicoy : Matter of fact, you wouldn't die. You'd go lookin' for somebody else to pump gas and fill the cigar butts of yours with more money.

• Van Brunt : You're like me, Mrs. Chicoy. We hate flies.

  Alice Chicoy : Who doesn't?

  Van Brunt : [laughs]  Other flies, I guess.

• Alice Chicoy : You think I want my customers thinkin' I've got a bunch of goons waitin' on 'em?

  [Alice Grabbing Norma's picture and resume away from her] 

  Alice Chicoy : Norma Tracbow. Bust 34; waist 22. What am I running here, a girlie show or something?

  Norma , the counter girl : Give me that picture back or else.

  Alice Chicoy : Don't you threaten me, Miss Movie Queen, and just do your work and quit pretending your somebody you're not.

  Norma , the counter girl : You've got to stop making fun of me.

  Alice Chicoy : Just do one hour of work is all I ask. Just one hour.

  Norma , the counter girl : Don't you push me, Mrs. Chicoy. I'm going. Ever since I came to work for you, you've been picking on me because you're jealous. Not because of work but because you're jealous.

  Alice Chicoy : Jealous? Of you?

  Norma , the counter girl : Of me and every other young girl who came to work here. And frankly, Mrs. Chicoy, I can't blame you for being jealous one little bit..

• Alice Chicoy : [On the phone]  Say, when are you comin' back anyway?

  Johnny Chicoy : Well, that's what I was calling about. There was a landslide and the road is closed and I was... we was just...

  Alice Chicoy : [Angrily]  Now I get it.

  Johnny Chicoy : What do you mean?

  Alice Chicoy : I mean all of a sudden the road is closed and you've got no place to go except back to mama.

  Johnny Chicoy : Honey, that ain't it.

  Alice Chicoy : You gotta come back anyways so you make it sound like a pretty good deal. You're sorry, I'm sorry, and all those dames are sorry, and Norma's sorry.

  Johnny Chicoy : I called you because I wanted to see ya and I was glad I was gonna see ya. And if you wasn't so drunk, you'd know that was the truth.

  Alice Chicoy : Poor Johnny. Trying to get away and couldn't make it. Now you can't even cry on a blonde's shoulder.

• Camille Oakes : [On the bus]  Mind if I sit here?

  Alice Chicoy : Go ahead.

  Camille Oakes : It's none of my business but do you mind if I told you what I did to a guy I was in love with once? I put a chair over his head real hard to keep him from some dame at a party.

  Alice Chicoy : I'll bet you never tried that again.

  Camille Oakes : Don't know. I never saw him after that. He's married. Happily married. Now I make a living. Believe me, breaking a chair over a guy's head can sure work miracles. The kind of miracles that can louse up your whole life.

• Johnny Chicoy : [On the phone]  Look, I hadn't oughta left like that. I was too rough on you. I'm sorry, honey.

  Alice Chicoy : Well, you know, Johnny. Sometimes we do things out of love that doesn't seem like love at all. You know what I mean? It's all right. I love you even when you act like a stinker. Even when I act like a stinker and that takes some doing. So you just turn the old bus around and come back double quick.

• Morse : I thought you might need a good shoulder to cry on.

  Alice Chicoy : He said he was comin' back.

  Morse : Aw, you two are no good for each other anyways.

  Alice Chicoy : A lot you know about it.

  Morse : Let him sweat it out. He'll be back one day actin' sorry..

  Alice Chicoy : I don't want him sorry. That's not the way I want him. I'm the one that's sorry. And get off that bed. Get out!

  Morse : Don't get me wrong, Alice. I like Johnny. Just stopped by for coffee and donuts.

  Alice Chicoy : Like fun you did.