Lover Come Back (1961)

Doris Day: Carol Templeton

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• Jerry Webster : Okay, so I've sewn a few wild oats.

  Carol Templeton : A few? You could qualify for a farm loan!

• Jerry Webster : [Jerry's boss - and friend - Pete - is making him ring Carol Templeton to apologise - and hopefully have her withdraw her complaint to the Advertising Council]  Carol Templeton, please, Jerry Webster calling.

  [Speaking to the operator] 

  Jerry Webster : Ramsey & Son.

  Peter 'Pete' Ramsey : Assure her of our high moral character

  Carol Templeton : [Split-screen, à la Pillow Talk]  Yes, Mr. Webster?

  Jerry Webster : Mr. Ramsey, here, tells me that you spoke to him, and I'd like to,ask you a favour; will you kindly keep,your big, fat nose out of my business?

  [Pete starts getting furious, yelling in a strangled voice 'no, no,' at Jerry, who ignores him] 

  Jerry Webster : If the competition's too tough, get out of the advertising profession.

  [Pete's got his hands in his face] 

  Carol Templeton : YOU aren't even IN the advertising profession, and if I weren't a lady, I'd tell you what profession you ARE in.

  Jerry Webster : Tell me, anyway

  Carol Templeton : [Thinking she's got the upper-hand, tries to talk 'down' to Jerry]  Well, let me put it this way; I don't use sex to land an account.

  Jerry Webster : When do you use it

  Carol Templeton : I don't.

  Jerry Webster : My condolences to your husband

  Carol Templeton : [Carol's eyes narrow, and she's seething with anger as she speaks]  I'm NOT married.

  Jerry Webster : That figures.

  Carol Templeton : What, what do you mean, 'that figures'?

  Jerry Webster : Well, a husband would be competition. There's only room for one man in the family.

  Carol Templeton : [Carol's steaming, and trying to stay calm]  Oooh! Let me tell,you,something, Mr. Webster; I wish I were a man, right now,

  Jerry Webster : [Goading Carol]  Keep trying, I think you'll make it.

  [Carole looks at the phone's receiver, and hangs it up, forcefully] 

• Carol Templeton : Yesterday at the beat you kissed me and I was thrilled!

  Jerry Webster : A kiss? What does that prove? It's like finding out you can light a stove. It still doesn't make you a cook.

• Carol Templeton : Doctor, there's so much I can learn from you.

  Jerry Webster : As my father, the philosopher, used to say, "Knock at my door and I shall take you in."

  Carol Templeton : Dr. Tyler, I'm knocking.

  Jerry Webster : Miss Templeton, I'm taking you in.

• Carol Templeton : Mmm. This isn't bad, either. But what color's that floor?

  Leonard : Lilac.

  Carol Templeton : Lilac? Leonard, who has a lilac floor in their kitchen?

  Leonard : I have.

  Carol Templeton : Oh. Well, Leonard, everyone isn't as artistic as you are. We have to sell this wax to ordinary, everyday people.

  Leonard : Ugh, them.

• Jerry Webster : You're going up there to have my baby. My son, and I'm...

  Carol Templeton : It's my baby and I'll have what I like. And I've decided I'm having a girl.

  Jerry Webster : Have whatever you like. I love you both. Now will you marry me?

• Carol Templeton : You listen to me, no alcoholic beverage, no drug known to science, no torture yet devised could induce me to stay married to you!

• Jerry Webster : I've only seen him a dozen or so times.

  Carol Templeton : Well, what's your opinion?

  Jerry Webster : I prefer to reserve judgment till I see him sober.

  Carol Templeton : Oh! Doesn't that tell you what he is?

  Jerry Webster : Miss Templeton, as my uncle, the missionary, used to say, "If thou canst not speak well of a man, speak not at all."

  Carol Templeton : You make me feel ashamed of myself.

• Carol Templeton : Think he'll like it?

  Millie, Carol's Secretary : Well if he doesn't, he's been taking the wrong kind of chemicals.

• Carol Templeton : [Carol realizes the problem with the product is its packaging, and has to convince Leonard and Millie how important it is to stay late and finish working on it]  Believe me, the agency that lands this account is the one that shows Mr. Miller the most attractive can.

  [Carol picks up a can of wax and the next scene is a line of dancing 'rabbit-girls' derierres] 

• Millie, Carol's Secretary : That means liquor, wild parties, getting the sponsor girls, right?

  Carol Templeton : Right.

  Millie, Carol's Secretary : Good. I'd like to volunteer for front line duty.

• Jerry Webster : [Still posing as Linus Tyler]  You know, it's a funny thing about you two. You claim he's oversexed, and he claims you're...

  Carol Templeton : I'm what?

  Jerry Webster : I'd rather not tell ya.

  Carol Templeton : Well, I'm not undersexed.

  Jerry Webster : I'm sure you're not.

• Jerry Webster : Mrs. Jerry Webster.

  Carol Templeton : Don't you ever call me a name like that again.

• Carol Templeton : Mr. Brackett. There are two ways to handle a cold. You can fight it, or you can give in and go to bed with it. I intend to fight it.

• Carol Templeton : Gentlemen, if we're through admiring Mr. Webster's trophies, I'd like to ask Miss Davis to tell us about that wild party he threw last night.

  Rebel Davis : You mean, the revival meetin'?

  Northcross, Ad Council Chairman : Mr. Webster held a revival?

  Carol Templeton : Revival is right! Everyone there had to be revived.

• Magnuson, Ad Council Member : Miss Davis, do you know where Mr. Webster is?

  Rebel Davis : Why yes. He's at the Red Cross donatin' his blood.

  Carol Templeton : Oh, well, that does it. They wouldn't take his blood - it's 86 proof. And, why would he be there at this particular moment.

  Rebel Davis : Why, that's where he's meetin' with his Boy Scout troop.

• Carol Templeton : The top of the Chrysler Building is not Inspiration Point.

  Rebel Davis : Why, it is to Mr. Webster. It looks down on Madison Avenue.

• Carol Templeton : I'd like my body sent back to the agency.

• Jerry Webster : [Posing as Dr. Linus Tyler]  Will you swear never to repeat what I'm about to tell you?

  Carol Templeton : I swear.

  Jerry Webster : Central Intelligence refers to my cousin as the "human satellite."

  Carol Templeton : You mean?

  Jerry Webster : Yes. He was launched from Cape Canaveral four days ago. Every 97 minutes Maurice passes over this supper club.

  [Carol looks up with her mouth open in awe] 

• Carol Templeton : They strip.

  Jerry Webster : [Posing as Dr. Linus Tyler]  Say, I think that's the word he used.

• Jerry Webster : [Still posing as Linus Tyler]  I was so dizzy from that cigarette he gave me.

  Carol Templeton : What kind of cigarette?

  Jerry Webster : I don't know. It didn't have any printing on it.

  Carol Templeton : Oh, Linus! Oh, that depraved monster. Ohhhhh!

  [Angry] 

• Carol Templeton : [Speaking to Webster who is posing as Dr. Linus Tyler]  Linus, I know a place where Webster wouldn't find you.

  Jerry Webster : Really? Where?

  Carol Templeton : Right here. In that guest room.

  Jerry Webster : In your apartment? Alone with you? All night?

• Carol Templeton : Oh, Linus. We're adults.

  Jerry Webster : [Posing as Dr. Linus Tyler]  Yes, but...

  Carol Templeton : Now, look at it calmly and sensibly. You won't be disturbed. Right?

  Jerry Webster : Right.

  Carol Templeton : You can concentrate on what you want to do.

  Jerry Webster : Well, that's true.

  Carol Templeton : Well then, for what you had in mind, isn't this the best place?

  Jerry Webster : [With a big sheepish smile on his face]  Yes, I guess it is.

• Carol Templeton : Oh, I'm your wife. Ooooohh, This is horrible. I'm Ruined. Ruined.

• Jerry Webster : Now, honey. You're starting our marriage off with a fight.

  Carol Templeton : Oh no, I'm not. I'm starting it off with an annulment.

• Jerry Webster : Forgot you? I sent you hundreds of letters. I wrote one every day for eight months.

  Carol Templeton : And the ninth month, when I needed you most, not a word.

  Jerry Webster : I didn't know what was happening. You sent back every letter unopened.

  Carol Templeton : If you loved me, you'd have kept on writing.

• Carol Templeton : I always wanted a church wedding.

  Jerry Webster : The next baby, we'll have a church wedding.

• Carol Templeton : Do you think you'd enjoy watching a girl undress?

  Jerry Webster : I don't know. But I'm willing to give it a try.

• Jerry Webster : So I sewed a few wild oats...

  Carol Templeton : A few? You could qualify for a Farm Loan!

• Jerry Webster : Y'know, it just doesn't seem right in letting a woman pay for everything.

  Carol Templeton : Well, you're not exactly an ordinary man.