Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Audrey Christie: Peg
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Quotes
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Frankie : [after Frankie and Johnny get through performing the Petunia number on stage] What were those signals?
Johnny : What signals?
Frankie : Between you and Cully, I'm not blind.
Johnny : Oh, those signals. Nothing, he just made a little bet for me.
Frankie : Now you've got helpers. Can't you lose fast enough alone?
Johnny : [Frankie starts walking away mad] Hey, where are you going?
Frankie : To have my head examined. There must be a hole in it!
Johnny : You can't help it if you're in love.
Frankie : [Cully shows up and Frankie bumps into him as she continues to walk away mad]
[shouts]
Frankie : Oh, you born losers, both of you!
Cully : What's the matter with her?
Johnny : She's crazy about the wrong guy. Me. I am a loser. But if I had 20 bucks, I could be a winner.
Cully : I hate myself for asking, but how?
Johnny : This gypsy fortune-teller that's parked across the river. I hear that everybody who takes her advice is hitting it rich.
Cully : So how come she lives in a wagon?
Johnny : The wagon is loaded with gold. You got 20 bucks?
Cully : Lucky for you, it just so happens...
Peg : You are the lowest person that ever lived!
Cully : Peg, my sweetheart. You've missed me.
Peg : You're not what I've missed.
Cully : No?
Peg : No! I missed the $50 I hid in my winter lingerie.
Cully : You know I never could keep out of your...
[Peg pokes Cully with a pair of scissors]
Cully : Oh! Oh! You didn't have to stab me.
Peg : Oh, I should've listened to my sainted mother. She said you were just like my father.
Cully : I could never drink that much.
Peg : Don't you dare say one word about my drunken old man. Where's the money?
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Peg : Hi, Mitzi.
[Peg notices that Mitzi is upset]
Peg : Oh, the boss in a bad mood again?
Mitzi : Bad? He never felt better. His favorite girl came back.
Peg : Oh, I thought you were.
Mitzi : I just found out I've been understudying the part. Oh, in my next life, I hope I'm not a girl. I could never go through that again.
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Cully : I lost it, Peg. All of it, honest.
Johnny : Yeah, he loaned me the last $5.
Peg : Now you stay out of this. Just to convince me, you take off your shoes.
Cully : My shoes?
Peg : [shouts] Off!
Johnny : Love and trust. That's what makes a marriage great.
Peg : Yeah!
Cully : See? I could never lie to you.
Peg : Ha! Ha! Ha!
[Peg finds a $10 bill in Cully's shoe]
Peg : Well... there's a $10 lie.
Cully : Now, how did that get in there?
Peg : I wonder. Oh!
[Leaves angry]
Johnny : Goodbye, gypsy.
[Cully takes off his other shoe and gives Johnny two hidden $10 bills]
Johnny : Hello, Zolita!
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Peg : Have you seen Cully? He's been missing for an hour.
Frankie : Have you tried the lost-and-found department?
Peg : No. I'm afraid they'll find him.
Frankie : I always know where to find Johnny. In the casino losing his shirt.
Peg : Well, with the way the other girls look at him, you're lucky he isn't playing around.
Frankie : You know what I'd do if he ever did me wrong?
[pretends to point a gun to her head]
Peg : Shoot yourself?
Frankie : No, him.
Peg : Oh.
Frankie : [as Johnny walks in the room, Frankie pretends to shoot him]
[shouts]
Frankie : Bang! Bang! Bang!
Johnny : Oh!
[Johnny pretends to fall to his death]
Johnny : One last request before I... cross the great footlights up yonder.
Frankie : Like what?
Johnny : Like, would you loan me 25 bucks so I could pay Cully what I owe him?
Frankie : Cully loaned you 25? Where did he get it?
Peg : Between my nightgown and my petticoat.
Frankie : Do you know how much you owe me already?
Johnny : Who's counting?
Frankie : Are you sure you don't want this money to gamble?
Johnny : Word of honor and cross my heart and may you never kiss me again.
Frankie : He sounds sincere. What would you do, Peg?
Peg : What any woman with an ounce of pride or self-respect would do. Give him the money.
Johnny : [as Frankie gets the money out for Johnny] Greatest little bank in America. Two greatest little banks in America.
Peg : What a shame you don't have an account there.
