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Film Quotes by Millard Mitchell

9 quotes
A Foreign Affair
Year: 1948

Director:
Billy Wilder
Phoebe Frost: Really, Colonel Plummer... you should have your brakes relined!
Col. Rufus J. Plummer: [as she leaves, he scratches his nose with the middle finger, apparently flipping her off. it WAS Billy Wilder, after all]
-- Millard Mitchell (as Col. Rufus J. Plummer) in A Foreign Affair (1948)
Singin' in the Rain
Year: 1952

Director:
Stanley Donen*Gene Kelly
Don Lockwood: Now listen, R.F., the owner of the Coconut Grove may do what Lina tells him to, but you're the head of this studio.
R.F. Simpson: That's right, I'm the head of this studio. She's hired! But don't let Lina know she's on the lot.
-- Millard Mitchell (as R.F. Simpson) in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A Foreign Affair
Year: 1948

Director:
Billy Wilder
Col. Rufus J. Plummer: Morale! Maybe someday we can send a little committee of our own investigating morale in Washington D.C.
-- Millard Mitchell (as Col. Rufus J. Plummer) in A Foreign Affair (1948)
The Naked Spur
Year: 1953

Director:
Anthony Mann
Jesse Tate: [Betrayed by Ben] I deserve it. Do business with the Devil and you get it every time.
-- Millard Mitchell (as Jesse Tate) in The Naked Spur (1953)
The Naked Spur
Year: 1953

Director:
Anthony Mann
Jesse Tate: [Expressing initial reluctance to accompany Kemp] Trail's as plain to you as it is to me!
-- Millard Mitchell (as Jesse Tate) in The Naked Spur (1953)
The Naked Spur
Year: 1953

Director:
Anthony Mann
Jesse Tate: [Referring to Vandergroat] He's not a man; he's a sack of money!
-- Millard Mitchell (as Jesse Tate) in The Naked Spur (1953)
Twelve O'Clock High
Year: 1949

Director:
Henry King
Maj. Gen. Ben Pritchard: I believe that to a certain degree, a man makes his own luck.
-- Millard Mitchell (as Maj. Gen. Pat Pritchard) in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Naked Spur
Year: 1953

Director:
Anthony Mann
Ben Vandergroat: Here you are. Breakfast in bed.
Howard Kemp: What's this?
Jesse Tate: You better eat it *before* we tell you.
-- Millard Mitchell (as Jesse Tate) in The Naked Spur (1953)
The Naked Spur
Year: 1953

Director:
Anthony Mann
Ben Vandergroat: Nuthin' like a good woman to stir the pot!
Jesse Tate: Nuthin' like a good woman!
Jesse Tate: Guess you got the years to know better than any of us, Jesse. Did you ever marry one of 'em?
Jesse Tate: Never had to with my good looks!
[Laughter]
-- Millard Mitchell (as Jesse Tate) in The Naked Spur (1953)