Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

Esther Williams: Whitney Young

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Quotes 

• Whitney Young : You said the one thing in your life was Dick.

• Una Yancy : I have come to a decision. If we're all we've got, there's something wrong.

  Whitney Young : You're so right.

  Whitney Young , Una Yancy : [singing]  Enough is enough, We're sick of this stuff, We're tellin' you Bub, That this is the rub

  Whitney Young , Una Yancy , Mary Kate Yarbrough : We've gotta go out and get ourselves a guy! It's time we all went out on an amorous bender, Went out and got loaded up with the opposite gender...

• Whitney Young : The trouble is men can go anywhere, they can do anything they want.

  Una Yancy : [gesturing to Whitney, Mary Kate, and herself]  Well, sailors candy anything! Oh, manager, can you tell us the name of a very nice cocktail place - the kind where women are admitted, but, grudgingly.

  Tearoom Manager : The Mahogany Room at the Blakely. It was a men's bar till last month, when a new management took over and ruined it.

• Whitney Young : Look, why beat around the bush, you're alone and I'm alone and we have to have dinner, so, why not together?

• Una Yancy : What are you doing here? Getting away from it all?

  Whitney Young : Well, in a manner of speaking. What are you doing here?

  Una Yancy : It all got away from me. So, I'm looking for it.

  Whitney Young : What's it's name?

  Una Yancy : Archie O'Conovan, United States Navy.

• Una Yancy : Oh, I like the way he did that. Smooth.

  Whitney Young : It shows he has tact.

• Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : By the way, what's your name?

  Whitney Young : Smith. Mary Smith.

  Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : Isn't that funny? My name is Smith too. John Smith.

• Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : Why don't we go somewhere else, somewhere quiet and cosy where we can *really* relax, huh? Of course, you don't have to if you don't want to; but, after all, you are a sailor, aren't you?

  Whitney Young : Well, yes, but...

  Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : Of course, if you're nervous...

  Whitney Young : Who's nervous?

  Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : I'm not.

• Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : I suppose you have all sorts of ways of getting around things.

  Whitney Young : Oh, nothing. It just takes a little talent.

• Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : [looking at Whitney]  I can't say you strike me as a woman's woman.

  Whitney Young : I've never struck myself that way either.

  Una Yancy : It's funny. Why is it that there are lots of men's men; but, hardly any women's women? And if there were, would this be good thing or not?

• Thatcher Kinston : Your Commander Stauton, she's worried about you. Afraid you've gone sour lately.

  Whitney Young : On myself, maybe, not on the WAVES.

  Thatcher Kinston : Couldn't be a man, could it? Not in this hen coop.

  Whitney Young : Did you ever see a hen coop without a rooster?

• Whitney Young : Is that Dick?

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Until I get through with him, that's Dick.

  [Whitney laughs] 

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : What's so funny?

  Whitney Young : Nothing, Tiger woman. Nothing at all.

• Whitney Young : All you got was one postcard from Archie and he said he thought he was going to France.

  Una Yancy : Listen, my Archie don't think for nothin'.

• Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : I just like to do my own hunting, that's all.

  Whitney Young : But, wouldn't a hunter be pleased if a rabbit walked right up to him and said here I am?

  Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott : Shows you don't know anything about hunting. Half of the fun is staking out something for yourself!

• Whitney Young : [to Paul]  You're the one who makes me do things like this.

• Whitney Young : You're both a couple of goodies.

  Mary Kate Yarbrough : Well, come with us if we're such goodies.

  Una Yancy : Oh, please, Whit.