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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) More at IMDbPro »

Richard Nugent: Ready boot, let's scoot!

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Richard Nugent: Hi! Mellow greetings, yookie dookie!

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Margaret: You know I'd die for you, only sometimes it's so hard living with you.

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Susan: You're going to make me an old maid.
Margaret: Only until you're 18.

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Matt Beemish: I'm the court psychiatrist.
Richard Nugent: Come back in an hour. I'll be crazy by then.

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Margaret Turner: Susan's growing pains are rapidly becoming a major disease.

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Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.
Susan Turner: What man?
Richard Nugent: Man with the power.
Susan Turner: What power?
Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.
Susan Turner: Hoodoo?
Richard Nugent: You do.
Susan Turner: Do what?
Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...

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Matt Beemish: I couldn't help overhearing. I had my ear to the door.

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Agnes Prescott: Now there's a guy who never goes out of a girl's mind. He just stays there... like a heavy meal.

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Judge Margaret Turner: You could talk the devil into going to church!

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Richard (Dick) Nugent: How'd you get in here?
Matt Beemish: Well, the door was closed, so I opened it and came right in.

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Matt Beemish: But I've got a plan.
Richard Nugent: I've had enough of your plans and your whole family.

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Richard Nugent: Thank you, Your Honor, may I go?
Judge Margaret Turner: You've just got here, don't you like our court?

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Susan: Well, my attitude is that one female judge in the family is enough.
Richard Nugent: Did you say that your name was Turner?
Susan: That's right! My sister is Judge Margaret Turner.
Richard Nugent: Nice to have met the family, bye.

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Matt Beemish: As Menninger clearly points out, traumatic events...
Richard Nugent: [interrupting] The only traumatic event she needs is a good smack in the jaw!
Matt Beemish: She's my niece... but you're absolutely right.

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Richard Nugent: [Jerry is sitting in his car in front of the Turner house] Jerry, what are you doing out here? Why don't you go inside?
Jerry White: I'm not welcome. I'm a square in Susan's social circle.
Richard Nugent: Nonsense, I'm sure Susan doesn't know you're out here.
Jerry White: She put me here.
Richard Nugent: Oh.

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Joey: [Susan arrives at their table in a rage] Is this your daughter, Judge?
Richard Nugent: [shocked that he'd insinuate Margaret is old enough to have a teenage daughter] It's her sister!
Joey: Funny, you look enough alike to be mother and daughter!
Margaret: [annoyed] Sisters look alike too.
Agnes Prescott: I hate my sister.

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Waiter at Tick Tock Club: [to Nugent after he has been yelled at, insulted, slapped, had champagne tossed in his face and been stuck with the check] Can I get you anything else, sir?
Richard Nugent: For instance?

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Susan: Have you ever married?
Richard Nugent: No.
Susan: Have you ever been in love?
Richard Nugent: Yes I have. Tell me what kind of paper does this school run?
Susan: Oh, all the students read it.
Richard Nugent: I'll bet they do.

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Susan: Did you have many ordeals before you became a success?
Richard Nugent: No, I...
Susan: You can talk to me. I want you to think of me, not as a newspaper woman, but as a friend.
Richard Nugent: Well, in that case, I'll tell you. I did suffer. When I was 10, my mother and father had a double suicide pack, they made it. I was sent to an orphanage. Some days they didn't beat me. Then one night I escaped, I ran away to New York. I used to steal.
Susan: What did you steal?
Richard Nugent: Beg your pardon?
Susan: What did you steal?
Richard Nugent: Crusts of bread... and things. One time I stole a valise. There were paints and paintbrushes inside. So I began to paint. Then they got me. I was sent to a reform school, but I escaped again.
Susan: Go on.
Richard Nugent: Back to new York. A weathly society lady saw my work, fell in love with me and sent me to art school. The rest is history.
Susan: How Wonderful. How terribly wonderful.

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Richard Nugent: Could we do this some other time? I've got a date.
Susan: Then you're not married?
Richard Nugent: No.
Susan: I knew you weren't. You just couldn't be.
Richard Nugent: Oh I've had some offers.

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Susan: Have you ever thought of me as a model?
Margaret: I can't honestly say that I have. Why?
Susan: Dickie wants me to pose for him.
Margaret: Oh, isn't that nice... DICKIE?

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