Easter Parade

Quotes

Opening Line:
Don (singing): "Happy Easter, Happy Easter.
Me oh my there's a lot to buy, there's shopping I must do.
Happy Easter to you."

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Don (to Nadine): "It only happens when I dance with you,
that trip to heaven til the dance is through.
With no-one else do the heavens seem quite so near,
why does it happen dear, only with you."

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Nadine (on being presented with a new dog): "Oh Johnny, what a darling! I know just the dress to wear him with."

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Don: "Can you drown a brunette in this?"
Mike (the barman): "How tall is she?"
Don: "Five foot six"
Mike (after topping up the glass): "Try that."

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Don: "I bet you know a lot about women."
Mike: "I should, I've been single all my life."

• • •Mike: "I can boil down trouble to two classifications....women and their mothers!"

Mike (asking Johnny what he wants to drink): "What'll it be, blonde or brunette?"

Don: "Miss Brown, what idiot ever told you you were a dancer?"
Hannah: "You did!"

Hannah: "You could get anybody to dance with you, you could get the very best."
Don: "I don't want the very best, I want you."

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Don (in response to Hannah's admiring comments about Nadine in the Easter parade): "See her nose? One year from now you're going to put it out of joint... Next Easter when we walk down this avenue you're going to cause more excitement than an earthquake."

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Don: "There is no more Hannah Brown. From now on you're Juanita."

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Don: "A girl dancer has to be exotic. She has to be...a peach!"
Hannah: "I suppose I'm a lemon."

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Don: "Keep sending the flowers, it's good business."

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Johnny (singing): "I'm just a fella, a fella with an umbrella. Looking for a girl who saved her love for a rainy day."

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Johnny (to Hannah): "Do you know that scientists say people fall in love quickest during a rainstorm? I can prove that, because that's when I fell in love with you."

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Hannah (to Johnny): "He (Don) doesn't even know I'm alive half the time. When he sweeps me off my feet it's during a dance number. When he sends me flowers it's because it's good for business. When he's taken me in his arms there's never been less than seven hundred people watching. Oh it's not his fault, it's mine! I... When they were passing out the wishes I... I wished for him."

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Hannah (to Don): "I thought we had a date tonight, not a rehearsal! I should have known better than to expect you to act like a human being. You're nothing but a pair of dancing shoes! I'm getting tired of being a prop around here, when I'm with you I don't even feel like a girl. You're not even a human being, you're nothing but a pair of dancing shoes!"
Don: "You said that!"
Hannah: "I don't care. Besides I bought a new dress."
Don: "It's very pretty."
Hannah: "How do you know, you haven't even looked at me."
Don: "Oh, that's not true, I..."
Hannah: "Oh isn't it? All right then tell me (closing her eyes), what color are my eyes? You won't be able to answer that because you have never paid enough attention to it."
(He silences her with a kiss, afterwards she opens her eyes and...)
Don: "They're brown."

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Don (after Hannah has sung "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" to him): "Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?"

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Don (singing): "I'm steppin' out with my baby. Can't go wrong 'cause I'm in right. It's for sure not for maybe that I'm all dressed up tonight..."

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Don and Hannah (singing): "We're a couple of swells, we stop at the best hotels. But we prefer the country far away from the city smells. We're a couple of sports, the pride of the tennis courts. In June, July, and August we look cute when we're dressed in shorts."

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Nadine's Maid (reporting back to her on Don and Hannah's show): "And there she was, all dirtied up and with a man's clothes on, and when they danced together they laughed at her. It was just awful!"

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Mike (reading poem to Hannah): "For ev'ry rose that withers and dies, another blooms in it's stead. A new love waits to open it's eyes, after the old love is dead."

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Hannah (singing): "Better luck next time, that could never be. Because there ain't gonna be no next time for me."

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Johnny (on the phone): "Hello, Nadine? Nadine, get out all the hounds. We're going for a walk."

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Hannah (singing to Don): "Never saw you look quite so pretty before. Never saw you dressed quite so handsome, what's more. I could hardly wait to keep our date, this lovely Easter morning. And my heart beat fast as I came through the door. For, in your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest fella in the Easter Parade..."

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Trivia Answer #1: Fred Astaire was called out of early retirement (thank goodness) to replace Gene Kelly who had broken his ankle. For the answer to the other re-casting (no pun intended <g>) see the Photo Gallery page.

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