Lucky Me (1954)

Doris Day: Candy Williams

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Quotes 

• Candy Williams : There's thirteen people in the audience.

  Hap Schneider : This is no time to be superstitious. It's bad luck.

• Candy Williams : [sings]  That's why I wanna sing like an angel, and dance, dance, like the devil. So Mr. Leader-man, strike up the band, and let's go! Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go¸ let's go!

• Hap Schneider : [after Candy breaks a mirror]  Hey, what's the matter with you? That's seven years bad luck.

  Candy Williams : Let's make it fourteen.

  [smashes another mirror] 

  Hap Schneider : Wanna try for twenty-one?

  [Candy smashes a third mirror] 

• Candy Williams : [sings]  It isn't that I'm superstitious, superstitious, I am not. / Nevertheless I take no chances walking under ladders.

• Candy Williams : [sings]  There's thirteen reasons why I feel this way.

• Candy Williams : [sings]  Never tap your toe in June, to an organ grinder's tune. / Men who pick up rusty pins marry girls with double chins.

• Candy Williams : Hap, stop it!

  Hap Schneider : What's the matter?

  Candy Williams : Well, you know that whistling in the dressing room is bad luck.

  Hap Schneider : Isn't that cute? Two months in show business, she knows all the rules.

  Candy Williams : Well, you're the one that told me.

• Candy Williams : But a trouper never says die!

• Fortune Teller : Be alert, my child. You are passing through a period of opportunity. You are on the brink of adventure. A mysterious stranger lurks in your future. A stranger who may serve as a guide to your fortune and destiny.

  Candy Williams : A mysterious stranger.

• Candy Williams : [sings]  I speak to the stars, and I wait for an answer.

• Candy Williams : [sings]  And the Bluebells of Broadway are ringing...

  Candy Williams , Flo , Hap Schneider , Duke McGee : [sings]  The Bluebells are ringing with a bag-pipe beat on Broadway, on Broadway tonight.

• Candy Williams : This is strictly business, Mr. Carson.

  Dick Carson : Yes, Miss Williams. Strictly business.

  Candy Williams : Oh, Mr. Carson!

  [hugs him] 

• Candy Williams : [sings]  Love you dearly, more than just sincerely.

• Lorraine Thayer : It must be an exciting life being a lady.

  Candy Williams : You should try it sometime. Er, er... marry a Lord, that is.

• [last lines] 

  Otis Thayer : Ooh, Friday the Thirteenth. Anyone around here superstitious?

  Candy Williams : Well, I, I... I used to be. But I'm not anymore. Not Lucky Me.

• Candy Williams : [Referring to an unusually unresponsive audience]  I thought you said we'd murder 'em?

  Hap Schneider : Well... they're dead, ain't they?