Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Debbie Reynolds: Kathy Selden
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Quotes
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Kathy Selden : Now look, Miss Lamont, Don and I...
Lina Lamont : Don? Don't you *dare* call him Don! I was calling him Don before you were born! I mean... You-you were kissing him!
Don Lockwood : *I* was kissing *her*! I happen to be in love with her.
Lina Lamont : That's ridiculous. Everybody knows you're in love with me.
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Don Lockwood : What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?
Kathy Selden : I'm an actress...
Don Lockwood : Oh...
Kathy : ...on the stage.
Don Lockwood : Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.
Kathy Selden : I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...
Don Lockwood : Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear. You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course.
Kathy Selden : Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession.
Don Lockwood : [scoffing] Dignified profession.
Kathy : What do you have to be so conceited about? You're nothing but a shadow on film... just a shadow. You're not flesh and blood.
Don Lockwood : Oh, no?
[moves amorously towards her]
Kathy : Stop!
Don Lockwood : What can I do to you, I'm only a shadow.
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Kathy Selden : [picks up a cake] Here's one thing I learned from the movies!
[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]
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Don Lockwood : I'm no actor. I never was. Just a lot of dumb show. I know that now.
Cosmo Brown : Well, at least you're taking it lying down.
Don Lockwood : No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as idiotic as me on that screen tonight?
Kathy Selden : Yeah, how about Lina?
Don Lockwood : All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. Anyway, I'm through, fellas.
Kathy Selden : Don, you're not through!
Cosmo Brown : Why of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!
Kathy Selden : Block hats!
Cosmo Brown : Sell pencils!
Kathy Selden : Dig ditches!
Cosmo Brown : Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.
[singing]
Cosmo Brown : La-da-de-dum-dum-dum, Fit as a fiddle and ready for love...
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Kathy Selden : You keep away from me! Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me!
Don Lockwood : [chanting] Fear not, sweet lady! I will not molest you. I am but a humble jester, and you? You are to far above me!
[he gets out of the car and closes the door on his coat tails]
Don Lockwood : Farewell, Ethel Barrymore! I must tear myself from your side!
[Don tears his coat. Kathy guffaws as Don walks away]
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Don Lockwood : I just had to tell you how good you were.
Kathy Selden : Excuse me.
Don Lockwood : No, no, don't go.
[pointing to cake she came out of at beginning of scene]
Don Lockwood : Now that I know where you live I'd like to see you home.
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Kathy Selden : Good night, Don. Take care of that throat. You're a big singing star now, remember? This California dew is just a little heavier than usual tonight.
Don Lockwood : Really? From where l stand, the sun is shining all over the place.
[singing]
Don Lockwood : I'm singin ' in the rain, Just singin ' in the rain, What a glorious feelin', I'm happy again... .
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Don Lockwood : Which of my pictures have you seen?
Kathy Selden : I don't remember. I saw one once.
Don Lockwood : You saw one once?
Kathy Selden : Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.
Don Lockwood : Thank you.
Kathy Selden : Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know
[demonstrates]
Kathy Selden : like that.
Don Lockwood : You mean like what I do?
Kathy Selden : Well, yes!
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Kathy Selden : Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?
Don Lockwood : You mean lofty star with humble player?
Kathy Selden : Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?
Don Lockwood : Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.
Kathy Selden : Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...
Don Lockwood : You read the fan magazines?
Kathy Selden : I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.
Don Lockwood : Really?
Kathy Selden : Well... I buy four or five a month.
Don Lockwood : Four or five...
Kathy Selden : But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...
Don Lockwood : Did you say *all* our pictures?
Kathy Selden : I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.
Don Lockwood : You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".
Kathy Selden : I said some awful things that night, didn't I?
Don Lockwood : No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.
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Kathy Selden : [laughing about the sound of "The Duelling Cavalier" going out of synchronization] I was just thinking, I think I liked her best when the sound went off and she said
[imitating Lina shaking her head]
Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."
Cosmo Brown : [imitating the actor opposite her] "No, no, no."
Kathy Selden : "Yes, yes, yes."
Cosmo Brown : "No, no..."
[a thought strikes him]
Cosmo Brown : Wait a minute. Wait a minute, I am just about to be brilliant.
[pulling her to her feet]
Cosmo Brown : Come here, Kathy. Come here. Now, sing.
Kathy Selden : Huh?
Cosmo Brown : I said sing.
[prompting her]
Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'.
Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin'.
Cosmo Brown : [putting her behind him] Now, Don, keep your eyes riveted on me.
Kathy Selden : [he lip-syncs to her singing] We've talked the whole night through/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Cosmo Brown : Watch my mouth.
Kathy Selden : Good mornin', good mornin'/It's great to stay up late/Good mornin', good mornin' to you.
Cosmo Brown : Well? Convincing?
Don Lockwood : [missing the point] Enchanting. What?
Cosmo Brown : Don't you get it? Use Kathy's voice. Lina just moves her mouth, and Kathy's voice comes over singing and talking for her.
Kathy Selden : That's wonderful.
Don Lockwood : No. No, I couldn't let you do it, Kathy.
Kathy Selden : Why not?
Don Lockwood : Because you wouldn't be seen. You'd be throwing away your own career.
Kathy Selden : It has nothing to do with my career. It's only for this one picture. The important thing now is to save "The Duelling Cavalier", save Lockwood and Lamont.
Cosmo Brown : Yeah.
Don Lockwood : Well... well, all right, if it's only for this one picture. But... do you think it'll get by?
Kathy Selden : Of course it will.
Cosmo Brown : Sure. And it's simple to work the numbers. Why, all you gotta do is dance around Lina and teach her how to take a bow.
Don Lockwood : All right, we'll go to R.F. and spring it on him in the morning.
Kathy Selden : [kissing him] Don, you're a genius.
Cosmo Brown : Hmm. I'm glad you thought of it.
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[last lines]
Don Lockwood : Ladies and gentlemen, stop that girl, that girl running up the aisle. Stop her! That's the girl whose voice you heard and loved tonight. She's the real star of the picture. Kathy Selden!
[theater audience applauds and cheers]
Don Lockwood : Kathy!
[singing]
Don Lockwood : You are, My lucky star, I saw you, From afar, Two lovely eyes, At me they were gleaming, Beaming
Kathy Selden : I was starstruck
Don Lockwood : You're all, My lucky charms
Kathy Selden : I'm lucky, In your arms
Don Lockwood : You've opened heaven 's portal, Here on earth for this poor mortal
Chorus : You are, My lucky star
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Don Lockwood : You mean l'm not an actor? Pantomime on the screen isn't acting?
Kathy Selden : Of course not. Acting means great parts, wonderful lines, words. Shakespeare! lbsen!
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Kathy Selden : [sings cheerfully] Here we are! Sunset and Camden!
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Don Lockwood : I do hope you're going to favor us with something special tonight.
Kathy Selden : Please!
Don Lockwood : Say, Hamlet's soliloquy, or the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet."
Kathy Selden : Mr. Lockwood!
Don Lockwood : Don't be shy. You'd make about the prettiest Juliet I've ever seen. Really.
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Kathy Selden : Now that you have the proper setting, can you say it?
Don Lockwood : l'll try.
[singing]
Don Lockwood : Life was a song, You came along, I've laid awake, The whole night through, If I but dared, To think you cared, This is what, I'd say to you, You were meant for me, And I was meant for you...
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Cosmo Brown : Hot dog!
Kathy Selden : Hallelujah!
Don Lockwood : Whoopie! Fellas, I feel this is my lucky day. March 23rd.
Cosmo Brown : Oh, no, your lucky day's the 24th.
Don Lockwood : What do you mean the 24th?
Cosmo Brown : lt's 1:30 already. lt's mornin'!
Kathy Selden : Yes! And what a *lovely* mornin'.
[singing]
Kathy Selden : Good mornin'
Cosmo Brown : Good mornin'
Don Lockwood : We've talked the whole night through
Kathy Selden : Good mornin',
Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown : Good mornin' to you
Don Lockwood , Cosmo Brown , Kathy Selden : Good mornin', Good mornin', It's great to stay up late, Good mornin', Good mornin' to you...
