Jayne Mansfield: Rita Marlowe
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Quotes
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Rita Marlowe : George, how come you never tried to kiss me before?
George Schmidlap : I never could get close enough.
[turns his head to the camera and raises his eyebrows up and down]
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Rita Marlowe : Don't talk dirty on TV, it's a family medium!
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Rita Marlowe : I picked him up, I can pick him down.
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Rita Marlowe : Don't leave me out, I have to be important in my own incorporated.
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Rita Marlowe : How can I remember? I'm all excited because you're loving me up! Ooh. Mm, mm.
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Violet : [Both talking about trying to get over the men they love] Then I went to a psychiatrist.
Rita Marlowe : I was gonna to do that, too, except in Hollywood they're so busy with producers you can't even get an appointment.
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Rita Marlowe : Where did you learn to use your lips the way you do?
Rock Hunter : I don't know. Might be hereditary. My mother is an accomplished musician. Tuba, trombone, bassoon, oboe. Brass and woodwinds.
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[last lines]
Rock Hunter : We've learned that success - is just the art of being happy. And being happy is - well, being happy is just...
Rock Hunter , Rita Marlowe , Henry Rufus , Violet , Jenny Wells , April Hunter , Irving La Salle Jr. : The very living end.
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Rita Marlowe : So what's the mystery? I'm just a perfectly normal American girl. Ooh!
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Rita Marlowe : I'm just going to New York with my secretary to rest in seclusion. Ooh! Seclusion? Is that right?
Violet : That's right, you want to be alone.
Rita Marlowe : Seclusion sounds so dirty.
Violet : Well, it isn't.
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Rita Marlowe : He wasn't too loaded to turn up at Ciro's with another bleached blonde. Another blonde. After all I did for him! What was Bobo when I met him? A Cucamonga grape-picker! Even his feet were blue!
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Rock Hunter : I did want to talk to you about getting your endorsement.
Rita Marlowe : Now, don't start talking dirty.
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Rita Marlowe : I picked him up, I can pick him down!
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Rita Marlowe : When I get through with him, his hair will be so loose, he'll be in the road company of "The King And I"!
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Rita Marlowe : Doll just looked at me and suddenly my heart went pop. Ooh! You know, like a girdle does when you walk fast. Except I wouldn't know because I never wear one.
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Rita Marlowe : She never had some dopey director making her retake and retake her kissing scenes. Why, at the end of a day's work at the studio, I don't have a decent pucker left!
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Rock Hunter : Something snapped.
Rita Marlowe : Something snapped? You snapped, and you're not a bad snapper, Dolly. I know. I've probably been snapped at more than any girl in history,
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Rita Marlowe : Would I pick on someone who wasn't the greatest? Ooh!
Rock Hunter : Oh, I wouldn't think so, not with those measurements, but you did.
Rita Marlowe : Don't sell yourself short, Dolly. You know your way around a kiss.
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Rita Marlowe : So when it comes to kissing, I know. Hmm-mm. But you're not so bad, Snapper.
Rock Hunter : Well, thank you very much, Miss Marlowe.
Rita Marlowe : Probably your first time in the big leagues too, hmm?
Rock Hunter : Yes, I guess up to now I've just been a bush leaguer.
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Rita Marlowe : Dolly Doll, don't run away from Mama.
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Rita Marlowe : This is Rita Marlowe, star of stage, screen and now live television. Ooh! Because this is my first live television appearance, the sponsor has agreed to relinquish his commercial time. There will be no mention of Stay-Put Lipstick, nor Stay-Put Lipstick's wonderful Stay-Put Lipstick colors, such as Stay-Put Lipstick Red, Stay-Put Lipstick Pink, Stay-Put Lipstick Flame, Stay-Put Lipstick Crimson, Stay-Put Lipstick Magenta, Stay-Put Lipstick Devil Red. These are wonderful lipsticks I personally use for my *oh*-so-kissable lips - Ooh! - that you will not be hearing about.
