The Naked Kiss (1964)

Constance Towers: Kelly

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• Buff : [Referring to the offer to work at Candy's club as a prostitute, which Kelly seeks to talk her out of]  Friend said I could make 300 dollars a week.

  Kelly : All right, go ahead. You know what's different about the first night? Nothing. Nothing... except it lasts forever, that's all. You'll be sleeping on the skin of a nightmare for the rest of your life. Oh, you're a beautiful girl, Buff. Young... Oh, they'll outbid each other for you. You'll get clothes, compliments, cash... And you'll meet men *you* live on... and men who live on you. And those are the only men you'll meet. And, after a steady grind of making EVERY john feel at home, you'll become a block of ice. If you do happen to melt a little, you'll get slipped a tip behind Candy's back. You'll be every man's wife-in-law, and no man's wife. Why, your world with Candy will become so warped that you'll hate all men. And you'll hate yourself! Because you'll become a social problem, a medical problem, a MENTAL problem!... And a despicable failure as a woman.

• Capt. Griff : [Interested in the champagne that Kelly is selling]  "Angel Foam"... Never heard of it.

  Kelly : It's an exclusive line I'm introducing in this state.

  Capt. Griff : Domestic, or... imported?

  Kelly : Angel Foam goes down like liquid gold, and it comes up like slow dynamite... For the man of taste.

• Kelly : I saw a broken down piece of machinery. Nothing but the buck, the bed and the bottle for the rest of my life. That's what I saw.

• Kelly : We call it a naked kiss; the sign of a pervert!

• Kelly : When I came to this town; first day I came - I was a prostitute .. next morning; I quit! ..

  J.L. Grant : I love you, Kelly: will you marry me?

• Miss Josephine : [Ohh]  He's a hard worker: He's no playboy, Miss Kelly! His very name is a synonym for charity. He's got the biggest heart in the world. Why, he built our hospital: he built the orthopaedic medical centre: funded by all himself - it's open to all handicapped children; no racial or religious barriers.

  Kelly : Handicapped children?

  Miss Josephine : It's a haven of hope for those angels; so little, so helpless and so .. crippled.

  [fade to black] 

  Mac, Head Nurse : [Change of scene]  Nurse .. one more operation and child will have straightened feet.