Affectionately Yours (1941)
Dennis Morgan: Richard 'Rickey' Mayberry
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Quotes
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'Pappy' Cullen : Rickey, you gotta settle a bet.
'Rickey' Mayberry : What's on your mind, Pappy?
'Pappy' Cullen : The man standing over there says your next move is to Budapest, and I say you're going to Egypt. I win, don't I?
'Rickey' Mayberry : You both lose. I'm going to Moscow.
'Pappy' Cullen : You just came from Russia!
Irene Malcolm : [facetiously] He won't give up until he finds Ninotchka.
'Pappy' Cullen : [he and Ricky laugh hysterically] That's a good one!
Irene Malcolm : It's not that good!
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[repeated line]
'Rickey' Mayberry : I'd marry ya in a split second if I didn't have a wife.
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Irene Malcolm : [Rickey just announced he has to leave] Awfully sudden, wasn't it?
'Rickey' Mayberry : We're both in the same racket, Irene. When an editor tells you to go...
Irene Malcolm : I wish I was your editor, Rickey.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Do you, darling?
Irene Malcolm : You bet.
[speaking in a double entendre]
Irene Malcolm : I'd love to be able to tell you where to go.
'Rickey' Mayberry : That would be swell.
[he realizes what she meant, and gets a strange look on his face]
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Irene Malcolm : Going my way?
'Rickey' Mayberry : [suprised] What? What are you doing here?
Irene Malcolm : Listen, Prague was wonderful. Here you are going to Moscow, I'm going to New York, and we're both on the same plane.
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Sue Mayberry : Rickey! Rickey! Rickey!
Irene Malcolm : Uh-oh, a reception committee. You sure do get around.
'Rickey' Mayberry : It's my wife!
[pushes her out of view]
Irene Malcolm : Oh! The ever-loving split second.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Get back on the plane, will ya?
Irene Malcolm : This is where I didn't come in.
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Tom 'Tommy' : You're up to your old tricks, eh? Three calls so far today.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Who were they?
Tom 'Tommy' : All the same party. She said to tell you she was stopping at the Hanover Apartments, and to get in touch with her. Some dame named Irene Malcolm.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Tommy, are you really glad to see me?
Tom 'Tommy' : Well, sure I am.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Then do me a favor and call her up and try to date her up. I'll give you anything if you take her off my hands.
Tom 'Tommy' : You're a cinch. All you have to do is pay the expenses.
'Rickey' Mayberry : I'll do better than that. Someday, if a dizzy dame ever bothers you, you give me a buzz and I'll take you off the hook.
[enters his boss's office, Irene is sitting across the desk; she heard the entire conversation]
'Rickey' Mayberry : Checking in chief! I...
Irene Malcolm : Thanks! For fixing me up on a blind date!
'Chet' Phillips : [Rickey looks for some help] Don't look at me. I'm not gonna dig you out.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Irene, I was just kidding. I wouldn't for the world...
Irene Malcolm : [angry] I know just what you mean, darling. You wouldn't for the world!
'Chet' Phillips : Now, wait a minute. If you two are gonna hash anything over, do it on your own time. Let's pick up from where you had your brains shot out.
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Irene Malcolm : Did you have much fun in Moscow?
'Rickey' Mayberry : Quite kidding! You sent stories from there for a whole year. You know how dull it is.
Irene Malcolm : I know how dull it *was*. But, you weren't there then, Comrade Make It Tough.
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'Rickey' Mayberry : You know how inaccurate newspaper reports are.
Sue Mayberry : Yes. I know how inaccurate newspaper men are.
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Hi, Anderson! Miss me?
Miss Anderson : Why, Mr. Mayberry!
'Rickey' Mayberry : You look swell, chicky!
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Sue Mayberry : We're divorced Rickey.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Where does this tadpole come in?
Owen Wright : Now, wait a minute...
'Rickey' Mayberry : Alright, I'm wrong. Where does this polecat come in?
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Should have worn your rubbers!
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Owen Wright : I'll fight for the woman I love.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Oh, brother, that's real corn.
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'Rickey' Mayberry : You know what I think you are?
Owen Wright : Yes. A fried egg, a baboon, a polecat, a tadpole, and an anemic dish of tripe.
'Rickey' Mayberry : You can say that again in spades!
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Remember the time one of these bit me?
Sue Mayberry : Yes and the oyster died!
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'Rickey' Mayberry : What's the matter?
Sue Mayberry : You're penalized 15 yards for holding. And 5 yards for backfield in motion.
'Rickey' Mayberry : You're welcome.
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Alright, Irene, take the job and after you've given it the 10 best years of your life as I have, you'll find out what kind of a chiseling Editor you've been working for. But, they're not all chiselers, Phillips. And I can get a job with another newspaper.
Pasha : But, Rickey, please. I come here for job. I am his photographer. I am most marvelous.
'Rickey' Mayberry : I wouldn't let you work for the dirty rag.
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Rickey Mayberry, you're a dirty low-down sneak and I - it would make you feel better if you said it yourself.
Sue Mayberry : Rickey Mayberry, you're a dirty low-down sneak and that you should have resorted to the tactics of a despicable, despicable...
'Rickey' Mayberry : Cat?
Sue Mayberry : Guttersnipe!
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Cynthia : Yous had six telephone calls from a Miss Malcolm.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Did you tell her I was out of town?
Cynthia : I shore did. But, she says to tell you that she has a split-second to spare.
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Owen Wright : You abducted my fiancée. Have you ever heard of the kidnapping law?
'Rickey' Mayberry : You stole my wife. Have you ever heard of a punch in the nose!
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Tell me, is this your first venture into the field of a - experimental courting?
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Pasha : She is fine fella.
'Rickey' Mayberry : You're darn right.
Pasha : Why you no make the love business with her?
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'Rickey' Mayberry : Isn't she lovely?
Sue Mayberry : A matter of taste - bad taste.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Why don't you call the Be My Friend Club and get a dame for him.
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Owen Wright : We have a very gay social life too. Ladies meet several times a week.
'Rickey' Mayberry : Can preserves, I presume. You know, a jam session.