Unwed Mother (1958)

Robert Vaughn: Don Bigelow

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• Don Bigelow : [Catching Betty with packages as she falls from a department store ladder]  Are you all right?

  Betty Miller : Oh, yes. Thank you.

  Don Bigelow : My pleasure. I'm never too busy to help out a little lady in distress. So your, uh, first day?

  Betty Miller : Yes.

  Don Bigelow : Are you, uh, from Los Angeles?

  Betty Miller : [Giggles]  No. I'm a country girl. From Visalia.

• Betty Miller : Mother, this is Don.

  Don Bigelow : I'm pleased to meet you.

  Mrs. Miller : I'm pleased to meet you.

  Don Bigelow : I, uh, had anticpated meeting a much older woman.

  Mrs. Miller : Daughters usually make out their mothers as old hags.

  Mrs. Miller : Mother, Don brought you some candy.

  Don Bigelow : It's nothing much. Just...

  Mrs. Miller : [Unimpressed]  Looks expensive. You're very generous.

  Betty Miller : Mother, please, you promised.

  Mrs. Miller : When a man begins by taking money from a young girl, I have a pretty good idea how it ends up.

  Betty Miller : Don, I had to tell her about the checks.

  Don Bigelow : Well, I'm glad you showed me what kind of family I might have gotten into.

  [Starts to leave] 

  Don Bigelow : You'll excuse me.

• Don Bigelow : My folks prefer Florida. Now me, I... I prefer any place, just as long as you're there.

  Linda : Aren't you ever serious?

  Don Bigelow : Yes, I'm serious enough to come down to Palm Springs to meet your parents.

  Linda : Careful, I might take you up on it.

  Don Bigelow : And after we meet them, we could sneak away. Drive to Las Vegas.

  Linda : To gamble?

  Don Bigelow : Well, some people call it gambling. A marriage license.

  Linda : You are a gambler, aren't you. And not only on the stock market.

  Don Bigelow : No, I don't consider you a gamble, darling.

• Don Bigelow : [On the phone]  Darling, I've been trying to reach you all evening!... Well, you have your car back good tomorrow... . I'm fired?... Listen, wrinklepuss, for the services that I've rendered your department, believe me, dear, I was underpaid anyway.

• Don Bigelow : [At the beach]  Are you going to stay down here with the kids or what?

  Betty Miller : Oh, we'll probably be going back soon.

  Don Bigelow : What for?

  Betty Miller : We came out early.

  Don Bigelow : Well, I've got a much better idea. Why don't we drive up the coast. They're not even going to miss you.

  Betty Miller : Oh, I couldn't.

  Don Bigelow : Why? Do you have a late date waiting for you at home?

  Betty Miller : I don't go in much for that sort of thing.

  Don Bigelow : Well, I have. With you it's not the same.

  Betty Miller : Well, I shouldn't really.

  Don Bigelow : Don't you want to go?

  Betty Miller : Yes.

  Don Bigelow : Then it's settled. Come on. We'll change in the car. Come on.

• Betty Miller : I'm sorry things are working out this way.

  Don Bigelow : Why be sorry? Everything's working out fine.

  Betty Miller : I mean our... our having to get married.

  Don Bigelow : Why are you complaining? You're getting yourself a husband and I'm getting out of jail. I think that's a pretty good deal all around.

  Betty Miller : You don't have to marry me.

  Don Bigelow : Really? That's not the way I heard.

  Betty Miller : What was the way you heard it?

  Don Bigelow : That I would serve every last day of that sentence unless I... I... Ha, what a choice.

  Betty Miller : You really mean that.

  Don Bigelow : What do you want me to do? Put my hand on the wedding Bible and swear that?

  Betty Miller : [Cries]  You...

  Don Bigelow : What?

  Betty Miller : [Giving him back a cameo he gave her as she leaves]  That's something I won't be giving to my eldest son.

• Ray Curtis : From your record, Bigelow, you're quite a boy.

  Don Bigelow : I suppose that means that I'm getting bum probation for it, huh?

  Ray Curtis : That's putting it real gently.

  Don Bigelow : And what does that mean?

  Ray Curtis : Society doesn't deserve the privilege of your company. You're headed for the County work farm. And I couldn't care less.

  Don Bigelow : And Betty goes Scott free, I suppose.

  Ray Curtis : Undoubtedly she'll be placed on probation. At least she won't be mixed up by you any longer.

  Don Bigelow : Now you've got it wrong. Maybe I won't be mixed up by her.