It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Frank Faylen: Ernie

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• [first lines] 

  Mr. Emil Gower : [voice-over]  I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father.

  Giuseppe Martini : [voice-over]  Joseph, Jesus and Mary. Help my friend, Mr. Bailey.

  Ma Bailey : [voice-over]  Help my son, George, tonight.

  Bert : [voice-over]  He never thinks about himself, God, that's why he's in trouble.

  Ernie Bishop : [voice-over]  George is a good guy. Give him a break, God.

  Mary : [voice-over]  I love him, dear Lord. Watch over him tonight.

  Janie Bailey : [voice-over]  Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy.

  Zuzu Bailey : [voice-over]  Please bring Daddy back.

• Ernie Bishop : Just a minute! Quiet everybody! Quiet, quiet. Now get this, it's from London.

  Ma Bailey : Oh!

  Ernie Bishop : [Reading the telegram in his hand]  Mr. Gower cabled you need cash, stop. My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five thousand dollars, stop. Hee Haw and Merry Christmas! Sam Wainwright.

• George Bailey : [George walks up to Ernie, who is on the phone, with a newspaper]  Hey, Ernie, look at that.

  [Newspaper headline reads "PRESIDENT DECORATES HARRY BAILEY"] 

  Ernie Bishop : It's going to snow again.

  [Ernie goes back to phone conversation] 

• Bert : Isn't there any romance in you?

  Ernie Bishop : Sure, I had it... but I got rid of it.

• Violet Bick : Good afternoon, Mr. Bailey.

  George Bailey : Hello, Violet. Hey, you look good, that's some dress you got on there.

  Violet Bick : This old thing? Why, I only wear it when I don't care how I look.

  Ernie Bishop : How would you like to take...

  George Bailey : Yes?

  Ernie Bishop : [to Bert]  Want to come along, Bert? We'll show you the town.

  Bert : No, thanks... I think I'll go home and see what the wife's doing.

  Ernie Bishop : Family man.

• Ernie Bishop : [as George is trying to find Mary in the abandoned house]  Watch this guy, Bert, he's bats!

• Ernie Bishop : Don't look now but there's something funny going on over there at the bank George. I've never really seen one but that's got all the earmarks of being a run.