Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
S.Z. Sakall: Felix Bassenak
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Quotes
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Felix Bassenak : Everything is hunky-dunky!
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Felix Bassenak : Catastroph!
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Felix Bassenak : Sam?
Sam : Yes, sir?
Felix Bassenak : Catastrophe, what is it?
Sam : It's from the Greek. It means "a misfortune, a cataclysm or a serious calamity."
Felix Bassenak : It is good?
Sam : No, sir. That's bad.
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Felix Bassenak : That coat! What's the meaning?
Elizabeth Lane : Don't worry, I'm paying for it myself. It'll take my next six months' salary. Nice, isn't it?
Felix Bassenak : Six months' work for a coat?
Elizabeth Lane : All my life I promised myself a mink coat. You know, Felix, it's very important to keep promises, especially to yourself.
Felix Bassenak : Do you have to promise so expensively?
Elizabeth Lane : But I need it!
Felix Bassenak : You need it? Nobody needs a mink coat but a mink.
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Judge Crowthers : I suppose you'll give the bride away, Uncle Felix?
Felix Bassenak : Me? I don't give nobody away. Always I keep my mouth shut.
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Felix Bassenak : Watch now. I show you how to flip-flop the flop-flips.
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Felix Bassenak : I had a silk hat when I was in Budapest. It made me feel so fine, but then I got fired with a silk hat.
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Alexander Yardley : [Elizabeth's baby needs medical attention] I don't want anything to happen to that baby. It will ruin my circulation.
Felix Bassenak : It won't do the baby no good, neither.
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Elizabeth Lane : Oh, Felix, this is awful. We have a new baby - it's a boy.
Felix Bassenak : It's life. Sometimes you get girls, sometimes boys.
