Holiday Inn (1942)

Bing Crosby: Jim Hardy

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Quotes 

• Linda Mason : My father was a lot like you, just a man with a family. Never amounted to much, didn't care. But as long as he was alive, we always had plenty to eat and clothes to keep us warm.

  Jim Hardy : Were you happy?

  Linda Mason : Yes.

  Jim Hardy : Then your father was a very successful man.

• Jim Hardy : [trying to describe Linda]  She was sort of a medium built, medium height. With a nice evening gown on with a belt in the back. She's sorta built like the girl I knew from the corner drugstore who used to play pinball. Conshwella Schlepkiss. I remember she was high man three weeks in a row.

• Linda Mason : You better go inside, it's cold and you don't have a coat...

  [gently pushes him] 

  Linda Mason : Go on.

  Jim Hardy : [kisses her, moves back]  Well I don't need a coat anymore.

• Ted Hanover : I like it here... with you and Linda.

  Jim Hardy : And we love having you. When are you leaving?

• Ted Hanover : Then I had a drink.

  Jim Hardy : A drink? Boy you were fractured!

• Jim Hardy : Lila's back in New York. I got a letter from her yesterday.

  Ted Hanover : What happened to her millionaire?

  Jim Hardy : Slight mistake there. He didn't own millions, he owed them.

  Ted Hanover : Poor girl. Always straying to greener pastures and finding spinach.

• Jim Hardy : What brings you here on this bright and uninviting day?

• Ted Hanover : [reading]  Come out and relax on a farm, music, dancing, home cooking. Open holidays only.

  [skeptical] 

  Ted Hanover : Open holiday's only? Say, how many of them are there?

  Jim Hardy : [excited]  About 15. That gives me 350 days to kick around in!

  Ted Hanover : [laughing]  You would think of that!

• Jim Hardy : Well what do you visualize, Ziggy?

• Jim Hardy : I don't need a coat, now!

• Jim Hardy : For that kinda of money you oughta be able to go by way o' Medicine Hat!

• Jim Hardy : Right now I've got the ledger in an iron lung.

• Jim Hardy : [Handing a cup of coffee to Ted]  Here, take a slug out of the mug.

• Jim Hardy : It's a great act, isn't it?

• Jim Hardy : [singing]  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know, where the treetops glisten, and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow.

• Jim Hardy : [singing]  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, with every Christmas card I write. May your days be merry and bright. And may all your Christmases be white.