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Film Quotes by Shirley Jones

8 quotes
The Happy Ending
Year: 1969

Director:
Richard Brooks
Flo: Lucky my mother hated breast-feeding or I'd've been alcoholic before I could walk.
Carousel
Year: 1956

Director:
Henry King
Julie Jordan: [singing] And, what's the use of wonderin' / If the endin' will be sad? / He's your feller and you love him / There's nothin' more to say.
-- Shirley Jones (as Julie Jordan) in Carousel (1956)
Oklahoma!
Year: 1955

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Laurey: Curly! You're sittin' on the stove!
Curly: Yeouch!
[Jumps up, feels the stove]
Curly: Cold as a hunk of ice.
Laurey: Wish it would've burned a hole in your pants.
-- Shirley Jones (as Laurey) in Oklahoma! (1955)
Oklahoma!
Year: 1955

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Laurey: Oh, I thought you were somebody.
-- Shirley Jones (as Laurey) in Oklahoma! (1955)
Elmer Gantry
Year: 1960

Director:
Richard Brooks
Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!
-- Shirley Jones (as Lulu Bains) in Elmer Gantry (1960)
The Music Man
Year: 1962

Director:
Morton DaCosta
Marian Paroo: The librarian hasn't felt much like doing research lately, but she did plenty when you first came here.
Harold Hill: What about?
Marian Paroo: Professor Harold Hill. Gary Conservatory of Music, gold medal class of '05. Harold, there wasn't any Gary Conservatory of Music in '05.
Harold Hill: Why, there most certainly w...
Marian Paroo: Because the town wasn't even built until '06. I tore this page out of an Indiana Journal. I was going to use it against you, but now I give to you with all my heart.
-- Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man (1962)
The Music Man
Year: 1962

Director:
Morton DaCosta
[In song]
Marian Paroo: There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No I never heard it at all, Till There Was You.
-- Shirley Jones (as Marian Paroo) in The Music Man (1962)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Year: 1963

Director:
Vincente Minnelli
[last lines]
Eddie: It's Regent 4-8599
Tom Corbett: [Dials phone]
Eddie: [leaves apartment, rings Elizabeth's doorbell twice] You're phone's ringing.
Elizabeth Marten: What?
Eddie: Your telephone.
Elizabeth Marten: No it's not, Eddie.
[Phone rings]
Eddie: You better pick it up, it could be important, very important. Hurry.
Elizabeth Marten: Hello?