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Year: 1944

Director:
George Sidney

Bathing Beauty

Professor Hendricks: Are we keeping you awake, Mr. Elliot?
Steve Elliot: Barely.

-- Red Skelton (as Steve Elliot) in Bathing Beauty (1944)

Year: 1942

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Whistling in Dixie

Ellamae Downs: You can call me Ellie.
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: If I call you, it'll be collect.

-- Red Skelton (as Wally 'The Fox' Benton) in Whistling in Dixie (1942)

Year: 1943

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Whistling in Brooklyn

Chester: [upside down] Help! Help! hey, all the blood pressure's to my head!
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: Well, there's plenty of room for it!

-- Red Skelton (as Wally 'The Fox' Benton) in Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)

Year: 1941

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Whistling in the Dark

Sylvester: [Impatient with Wally's stubbornness] Let me persuade him. I won't leave any marks.
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: Listen, I'm more stubborn when I'm unconscious.
Sylvester: Yeah, well, how can you tell when you're unconscious?
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: [With false bravado] Oh, I got ways. I got ways.

-- Red Skelton (as Wally Benton) in Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Year: 1943

Du Barry Was a Lady

May Daly: I see you want to buy me.
Louis Blore: Gosh no, Miss Daly, I want to marry you!

-- Red Skelton (as Louis Blore / King Louis XV) in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Year: 1942

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Whistling in Dixie

Sheriff Claude Stagg: [Amid rising water] Someone help me up! I don't want to drown like a rat!
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: Well, you oughta know how!

-- Red Skelton (as Wally 'The Fox' Benton) in Whistling in Dixie (1942)

Year: 1941

Director:
S. Sylvan Simon

Whistling in the Dark

[to an over-sized housekeeper]
Wally 'The Fox' Benton: Aren't you wrestling somewhere tonight?

-- Red Skelton (as Wally Benton) in Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Film Quotes by Red Skelton