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Kiss Me Kate (1953)

James Whitmore: Slug

Kiss Me Kate

James Whitmore credited as playing...

Slug

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  • Slug: To flee or not to flee, that is the question.
  • Lippy: Yeah. We wouldst thou thinkst of leaving thou.
  • Slug: Yeah. Going away is such sweet sorrow.
  • Bianca: [after Fred Graham kisses her to shut her up] I was just saying "Thank you"!
  • Slug: How do you suppose she says "You're welcome"?
  • Lippy: Once a man signs an IOU, everything goes black.
  • Slug: Yeah, the doctors call it magnesia.
  • Lippy: We cure it.
  • Fred Graham: Who are you?
  • Lippy: Hey, fine-looking fellow.
  • Slug: Clean-cut.
  • Fred Graham: What are you doing backstage?
  • Lippy: What a figure!
  • Slug: What a profill.
  • Lippy: What diction!
  • Slug: Very elocutionary.
  • Lippy: I don't like my face.
  • Slug: Neither do I.
  • Slug: Heartiest felicitations. I made that up myself.
  • Petruchio: I see puzzlement upon thy good faces. Who are these two angelic sprites who bear my lady's train? They are distant relatives from Pisa.
  • Slug: [to Lippy] What's a sprite?
  • Lippy: Some kind of fairy.
  • Slug: He's depressed. His doll took a powder.
  • Lippy: It's a dirty shame.
  • Slug: Yeah.
  • Lippy: She's got breedin'. And culture.
  • Slug: She was a real classy broad.
  • Lippy: Well, cheer up. You still got your hair.
  • Lippy, Slug: [singing] Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow...

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