Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Elliott Reid: Ernie Malone

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• Ernie Malone : It seemed a good idea to bring some drinks. Here are your cigarettes.

  Dorothy Shaw : Oh, you're a dear. Good boy.

  Lorelei Lee : I've been wondering, what is your line, Mr. Malone?

  Ernie Malone : My line? Well, my most effective one is to tell a girl that she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace, that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears. It very seldom works.

  Dorothy Shaw : You idiot.

• Dorothy Shaw : I certainly want to know who the players are. For instance, who's the young man who just tried to steal second base?

  Ernie Malone : Name is Malone.

  Dorothy Shaw : I'm Shaw, Dorothy. Well, Mr. Malone?

  Ernie Malone : You're the most attractive girl in the room so I came over to tell you. Do you mind?

  Dorothy Shaw : No, I might as well warn you, flattery will get you anywhere.

  Ernie Malone : In that case we haven't got any problems.

• Mr. Esmond Sr. : Are you out of your mind?

  Ernie Malone : Mm-hmm, but I like it that way.

• Dorothy Shaw : Bottom's up!

  [Dorothy, Lorelei and Ernie drink their cocktails] 

  Dorothy Shaw : He looks like he's going to explode.

  Ernie Malone : What was that?

  Lorelei Lee : Just equal parts of Scotch, Vodka, Brandy, and Gin.

• Ernie Malone : I'm not that bad all the time. Sometimes I'm very nice. Sometimes I just speak without thinking.

  Dorothy Shaw : I get the picture. You're half sweet and half acid.

• Lorelei Lee : I did not steal Lady Beekman's tiara.

  Lady Beekman : Then perhaps you'll explain how it happens to be in your possession?

  Lorelei Lee : Suppose we say that's my affair.

  Ernie Malone : Well, that's one explanation.

• Ernie Malone : [complaining to the steward as he's lead from the girls' room after their "dinner party"]  It's just not fair. Two against one. Take a man's pants.

• Lorelei Lee : What do you do for a living?

  Ernie Malone : Oh, that kind of a line. Nothing, I'm afraid. Just clip coupons and live off the fat of the land.

  Lorelei Lee : Coupons. That's like money, isn't it?

  Ernie Malone : Very similar.

  Lorelei Lee : I'm so pleased Dorothy's taken an interest in you. I mean, she's never been interested in anyone worthwhile.

  Ernie Malone : No taste, eh?

  Dorothy Shaw : No, I'm a hobo collector. I might even find room for you.

• Ernie Malone : For the past hour, I've been thinking. Thinking about doing something.

  Dorothy Shaw : Well, what have you been thinking, Mr. Malone?

  [kiss] 

• Ernie Malone : Miss Lee, before I go, I'm gonna tell you this. Because once in awhile even a mercenary nitwit like you has a decent impulse. Don't let your friend here get mixed up in any of your schemes. Because I'm gonna rub your nose in them and I don't want this character to get hurt on the way.

  Lorelei Lee : If you've nothing more to say, pray, scat.

• Ernie Malone : Let's go find our moon and forget about your girlfriend.

• Dorothy Shaw : I'd sure hate to have your job.

  Ernie Malone : Well, maybe you're right. Checking up on people is messy work sometimes. But only when those people are doing things that...

  Dorothy Shaw : Doing things like pretending to make love to a girl while you spy on her friend?

• Ernie Malone : I'm being paid to watch that blonde bandit.