How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

Betty Grable: Stormy Tornado

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Quotes 

• Stormy : Hey Curly!

  Wedgewood : Not so loud... do you wanna get me expelled? Curly...

  Curly : Yeah?

  Wedgewood : Do you think you can get in here without being seen?

  Curly : For what purpose?

  Stormy : Don't argue the man's got a fried chicken in here.

  Curly : Hold him.

• Stormy : You're still a pupil?

  Wedgewood : That's right.

  Stormy : Well what kind of a for-crying-out-loud kind of school could you be in?

  Wedgewood : This one, Bristol College.

  Stormy : This is a college?

  Wedgewood : Well, of course, what did you think it was?

  Stormy : I think you better let me outta here. I had all the college boys I want on Saturday nights thank you... tanked up on the two dollar gin.

• Stormy : What I'd like to do is go underground, if I could ever figure out how you get down there.

• Curly : You know something? That woman's got a very kind face.

  Stormy : She's got a very kindly piece of salami there, too.

  Curly : That's what I said.

• Stormy , Curly : [singing]  How to be very, very popular, That is the subject friends, A gal with charm can walk off the farm, And start earning dividends, If she's popular, popular, popular friends, How to be very, very popular...

• Wedgewood : What do you think could have happened to her?

  Stormy : But what could happen to a girl in a building full of college boys?

• Stormy : Stormy Tornado. I'm an interpretive dancer.

• Eddie Jones : Just to keep the record straight, it was me that put the whammy on her, not him.

  Stormy : Well, two and a half cheers for you.

• Stormy : You mean you can't ungoof her?

• Eddie Jones : Please, may I kiss her goodbye?

  Stormy : Just don't try to show off.

  Eddie Jones : Thanks.

  [kisses a hypnotized Curly] 

  Toby Marshall : Say, could I pick up that raincheck now?

  Eddie Jones : He didn't get one first time around.

  Stormy : Oh, sure. And line up the rest of the college, too, why don't you?

  [Toby gives hypnotized Curly a long kiss] 

• Stormy : And all the poor kid wanted was a little piece of salami.

• Stormy : She's a very nice kid when she's not goofed up like that.

• Stormy : I've never been so popular in my life since I've started interpretating.

• Stormy : What you really want is we should beat it, don't you?

• Stormy : Well, if you'll pardon a four letter word, you're a real cutie.

• Stormy : You're not going to jail. They're going to take you straight to the booby hatch.