Lovely to Look At (1952)
Gower Champion: Jerry Ralby
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Quotes
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Tony Naylor : We're trying to finance our show. I'd like to take you folks in as partners. Now, please don't rush but who'd like to be the first to write a check?
Jerry Ralby : Of course, we've just given you the highlights.
Al Marsh : And we got some terrific lowlights. Like the part when I play a 36 inch man dropped from a flying saucer, I zoom through the...
Tony Naylor : It's dynamite!
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Jerry Ralby : How do we get the dough to get over there to get the dough?
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Jerry Ralby : [singing] When you dance you're charming and you're gentle
Clarisse : If our lips should brush it's accidental
Jerry Ralby : You know my approach is strictly mental
Clarisse : Good heaven rest us, I'm not asbestos, A that's why I won't dance, why should I? I won't dance, how could I? I won't dance, merci beaucoup,
Jerry Ralby : You know that music leads the way to romance, So if I hold you in my arms...
Clarisse : I won't dance!
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Jerry Ralby : You're a very good dancer; but, you have no idea what dancing really means.
Clarisse : I do to! I've looked it up. Dancing is moving parts of or your entire body to rhythm to express an action or a - emotion.
Jerry Ralby : And that's all?
Clarisse : Is there more?
Jerry Ralby : There are many things about dancing you won't find in a dictionary.
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Jerry Ralby : To me, dancing is the loveliest way I know to meet a girl. It's the only way I can hold a girl in my arms in a crowded room and still have her all to myself.
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Jerry Ralby : Dancing is the whistle stop before romance.
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Jerry Ralby : All I ask is just one more chance. Just one more dance?
Clarisse : You practically have me on the floor already; so, why don't we do it the right way.
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Jerry Ralby : Honey, I'm the poorest / Example of a tourist / I bathe in gloom / At just the thought of Napoleon's tomb / For educational purpose I'd learn much more with you / If I toured a night club floor with you / Dance each dance from eight to four with you / What say Baby, what say Baby?
[new intro lyrics to "I Won't Dance" apparently written for this movie]