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Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, and Red Skelton in Watch the Birdie (1950)

Arlene Dahl: Lucia Corlane

Watch the Birdie

Arlene Dahl credited as playing...

Lucia Corlane

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  • Rusty Cammeron: [awakes, sees Lucia] My camera, where's my camera?
  • Lucia Corlane: Oh, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we lost that.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh no, why, you should have saved the camera and let me drown. That thing cost $1,200.
  • Lucia Corlane: Oh I'm sorry, it's all my fault.
  • Rusty Cammeron: All my life, I've been doing things I couldn't afford, but it's the first time I ever got any pleasure out of it.
  • Lucia Corlane: Hello, Mr. Cammeron.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Gee, it's good to see you, when I'm not all wet - I mean, when you're drier than I'm wetter. Say, I'd like for you to meet my pop.
  • Lucia Corlane: Oh, I'd love to.
  • Rusty Cammeron: You would?
  • Lucia Corlane: Yes.
  • Lucia Corlane: Your father's a darling.
  • Rusty Cammeron: I'm his only son. You look so wonderful it's silly to ask, how are you?
  • Lucia Corlane: I'm very well; I'm also a customer.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh, well I'm rather disappointed.
  • Lucia Corlane: You mean you don't want to sell anything?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, no. When I look at you, I don't think of business; that is, well, if I had a store, I would give you anything and - Well, I do have a store and - Here.
  • [goes behind the counter and takes a camera down from the shelf]
  • Rusty Cammeron: Take that as a souvenir, I was going to throw it away anyhow.
  • Lucia Corlane: Thank you, but I couldn't. I would like to buy a gift for a friend, say something around $200.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, this camera with the carrying case and some film will run around $200.
  • Lucia Corlane: Fine, I'll take them.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Mm-hm, pardon me.
  • [Rusty turns his head, sneezes]
  • Lucia Corlane: What are you taking for that cold?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Make me an offer - I mean nothing, it's nothing at all. It's slight.
  • Lucia Corlane: Well, as soon as you've finished wrapping this, I'm taking you right down to my doctor.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, I'd rather not. You see, he might cure me, and then I'd never see you again. Why don't we go to my doctor, he's not too good, heh.
  • Lucia Corlane: Bundle up, and I'll drive you right down.
  • Rusty Cammeron: I'll wrap this for you.
  • Rusty Cammeron: [reading an article on Lucia Corlane, who will be attending a groundbreaking ceremony] No wonder you're the head of a construction company, you're a walking example of good construction.
  • Lucia Corlane: Hello.
  • Rusty Cammeron: [Rusty puts the newspaper down] Gee, Miss Corlane.
  • Lucia Corlane: I'm glad you're in, because we have some business to discuss.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Business?
  • Lucia Corlane: Of course. Aren't you a photographer?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Photograph you, Miss Corlane? I have nothing else to do the rest of my life.
  • Lucia Corlane: That's very flattering, but what I had in mind was a real estate project, Lucky Vista.
  • Rusty Cammeron: I know, here! If all bosses looked like you, labor and management could really get together.
  • Lucia Corlane: What I need is a pictorial record of the construction as it progresses. I just might want to prove that everything is being done right.
  • Rusty Cammeron: You don't expect any trouble, do you?
  • Lucia Corlane: I can't take any chances. You see, my father started this project just before he died, it was his life's dream.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, I know you'll do it.
  • Lucia Corlane: I have to, for my own sake, too. Every penny I inherited is in Lucky Vista. If anything happened to it, the money Dad left me, my home, everything - I'd lose it quicker than you lost that $1,200 camera.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, don't you worry, nothing's going to happen. Say, why don't we discuss this business at lunch? I'm an awful good cook.
  • Lucia Corlane: All right, we'll call it a businessman's lunch.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Good, right this way, Miss Corlane.
  • Rusty Cammeron: [Rusty and Lucia enter the clinic] Uh, you're going to wait for me, aren't you?
  • Lucia Corlane: I told you, I have to get back to the office.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh... well... supposing I have an attack on the way home?
  • Lucia Corlane: You just thought of that, didn't you?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Mm-hmm.
  • Lucia Corlane: Now remember, do exactly as the doctor tells you.
  • Rusty Cammeron: I'll do everything I'm told.
  • Lucia Corlane: [Rusty opens the door for Lucia, who is about to leave] Bye.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Bye.
  • Mrs. Shanway: it is my privilege to turn the first spadeful of earth of the second unit of Lucky Vista.
  • [the crowd applauds as Mrs. Shanway hands the silver shovel to Miss Lucky Vista]
  • Grantland D. Farns: Lucia, why don't you sell out so I can get some sleep?
  • Lucia Corlane: You better start taking sleeping tablets, because I'm going to finish this project myself.
  • Mrs. Shanway: In honored memory of that estimable, that foresighted, that public spirited individual, the late lamented Cornelius Schuyler Corlane, whose lifelong dream was the completion of this project.
  • [Miss Lucky Vists hands the shovel to Mrs. Shanway, who uses it to break the ground; the crowd applauds]
  • Mrs. Shanway: I hereby dedicate this ceremonial moment to Mr. Corlane's daughter, who will carry on the work: Miss Lucia Corlane!
  • Lucia Corlane: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. They told me that a girl couldn't carry on this project; that's all I needed to hear. We're having a big turkey raffle at 4:00, I hope you will all participate. Turkeys are courtesy of the Lenard-Vulty turkey ranch, oh and here they come now.
  • Lucia Corlane: Good evening, Rusty.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh, good evening. Say, it was nice of Mr. Farns to arrange to show the picture.
  • Lucia Corlane: You seem nervous.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, I'm in a lot of trouble.
  • Lucia Corlane: What kind of trouble?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well, when a fella calls on his girl - that is, a girl - for the first time, well, he knows 8:00 is the right time to get there. Well, here's his trouble: should the guy show up exactly at 8:00 to prove to the girl that he's reliable and steady, or should he show up maybe at 8:30 and show her that he's uh, more carefree and nonchalant?
  • Lucia Corlane: What time is it now, Rusty?
  • Rusty Cammeron: Half past 7:00.
  • Lucia Corlane: Shall we go in?
  • [Rusty and Lucia enter the parlor]
  • Rusty Cammeron: Here's the film.
  • [hands the box of chocolates to the projectionist by mistake]
  • Movie Projectionist: Okay, thanks.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh Miss Corlane -
  • [hands the film to the projectionist and takes the box of chocolates to Miss Corlane]
  • Rusty Cammeron: Oh, pardon me. Miss Corlane, I happen to have a box of candy for you.
  • Lucia Corlane: Oh, thank you very much.
  • [Rusty stumbles over the ottoman]
  • Lucia Corlane, Miss Lucky Vista: Oh!
  • Miss Lucky Vista: Is he all right?
  • Lucia Corlane: Are you hurt?
  • Rusty Cammeron: No, I'm okay; that's a silly place to put furniture, I'm sorry.
  • Miss Lucky Vista: [Miss Lucky Vista runs into Mr. Shanway's arms] Oh, why Mr. Shanway, why I had no idea you were so strong.
  • Mr. Hugh Shanway: I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't the prettiest girl I ever saw.
  • Miss Lucky Vista: You shouldn't say that, you're a married man.
  • Mr. Hugh Shanway: Let's forget about the old battle-ax.
  • Mrs. Shanway: Ohh! Ohh!
  • Lucia Corlane: Please turn it off.
  • [the film ends and the lights go on]
  • Mrs. Shanway: Hugh Shanway, you worm! You viper!
  • Mr. Hugh Shanway: But honey, it...
  • Mrs. Shanway: "Old battle-ax", huh? You know very well I'm only 29!
  • Mr. Hugh Shanway: Honey, use some sense, that film's all mixed up. You know you didn't talk like a turkey to those people.
  • Mrs. Shanway: You didn't talk like a married man to that skin tomato!
  • Mr. Hugh Shanway: Oh honey, that dialogue was from another scene.
  • Mrs. Shanway: And as for you trying to steal my husband, I ought to have you arrested for petty larceny!
  • Miss Lucky Vista: Well what is she -
  • [Mrs. Shanway pushes Miss Lucky Vista down into a chair and leaves]
  • Miss Lucky Vista: I don't know why she's so jealous of me, I'm not jealous of her!
  • Rusty Cammeron: [while driving a straddle carrier truck] Look, I make up my mind in a hurry, you're never gonna leave me. We'll get married as soon as we get out of this mess. Do you understand?
  • Lucia Corlane: Of course I do, anything you say, Clark - I- I mean Rusty.
  • Rusty Cammeron: Well then, slide over here and give me a kiss!
  • [Lucia puts her arm on Rusty's shoulder]
  • Rusty Cammeron: Gee, Grandpa and Clark Gable would be mighty proud of me.
  • [last lines]
  • Lucia Corlane: [Rusty and Lucia park the straddle carrier next to the police station] Officers, don't let these two men get away!
  • Policeman: Okay, miss!
  • Lucia Corlane: [Rusty and Lucia climb in through the police station window] Oh officer, I want those two men arrested; they're guilty, and we've got the film to prove it.
  • Police Captain: Now wait a minute, young lady.
  • Rusty Cammeron: If I hadn't have straightened out that soundtrack, we'd never known what happened.
  • Police Captain: What soundtrack are you talking about?
  • [the film fades out to the closing credits]
  • Rusty Cammeron: Pop, this is Miss Lucia Corlane.
  • Lucia Corlane: How do you do?
  • Pop Cammeron: I want to thank you for saving my boy's life.
  • Lucia Corlane: Oh, it wasn't that serious; besides, I felt responsible.
  • Pop Cammeron: Rusty tried to tell me how lovely you were, but unfortunately, he's not a poet.
  • Lucia Corlane: Thank you, Mr. Cammeron, you're very sweet.
  • Pop Cammeron: You must visit our store more often; I never realized how attractive it was until I saw you standing there. Well, goodbye for now, Miss Corlane.
  • Lucia Corlane: Goodbye.

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