Bing Crosby credited as playing...
Frank Elgin
- Bernie Dodd: Does your wife really want you to play this part?
- Frank Elgin: Yeah, she's all for it.
- Bernie Dodd: I was just wondering. The day I met her, she seemed a little difficult about terms and rather domineering, I thought.
- Frank Elgin: She wasn't always like that.
- Bernie Dodd: Oh I know, I know. They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths.
- Frank Elgin: I faced a crisis up there in Boston, and I got away with it. Just about anybody can face a crisis. It's that everyday living that's rough. I'm not sure I can lick it, but I think I got a chance.
- Frank Elgin: Instead of selling a patent of medicine or something like that, I was selling a philosophy. You know, a sort of a sunshine salesman.
- Bernie Dodd: What is this? I come up here with the best intentions in the world and suddenly I find I'm victimizing you.
- Frank Elgin: Can I get a word in?
- Bernie Dodd: What did I bring you? A basket of snakes?
- Bernie Dodd: Frank? Having trouble at home?
- Frank Elgin: No, nothing like that. What's the matter? Don't you believe me?
- Bernie Dodd: Everyone has trouble at home. The only ones who deny it are those that have too much of it.
- Frank Elgin: If the show doesn't pan out, I certainly don't want to come in to New York in a turkey.
- Jackie: All right, all right, simmer down. It's my turn to holler.
- [singing]
- Jackie: Love and learn, Love and learn, It's a breeze, Then a burn, You retreat, Then return, You may have climbed the tree of knowledge, But when you love you really learn, Love and learn, Learn a lot, It's the be-and-end all, Then its not, It's a dream, It's a plot, It's something out of seventh heaven, Or something misbegot, Each morning when I count my blessings, They tally up to none, I've arrived at this
- Frank Elgin: The state of bliss is somewhat overdone
- Jackie: Well, go Daddy, go.
- Frank Elgin: Live and learn, weep and sing, Till the final day of reckoning
- Jackie: What about this guy?
- Frank Elgin: But when arms start to cling, With the thrills kisses bring, What you have learned is, Is you haven't learned a thing
- Jackie: Take me home, Dad...
- Jackie: Hey, aren't you Frank Elgin?
- Frank Elgin: I used to be. Not a word or I'll tell them you're Harpo Marx.
- Frank Elgin: This is something I've got to work out for myself, with you or without you. Whether the show is a hit or a flop is beside the point. I've got to find myself, whether it's in one room or five.
- Frank Elgin: There's only one thing more obvious than two people looking longingly at each other - and that's two people avoiding it.
- Frank Elgin: I gave you ten of the roughest years anybody ever spent outside of a concentration camp. It could be more of the same.
- [starts to leave, turns around]
- Frank Elgin: That was quite a little speech, wasn't it? I guess I'm still giving a performance. This time there's a slight difference. At least I know it's a performance.