On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Doris Day: Marjorie Winfield
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Quotes
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William 'Bill' Sherman : The University of Indiana. I'm a senior.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, it must be wonderful.
William 'Bill' Sherman : It's a farce. All the fellas are interested in is playing football and baseball, and women. Women and more women. Can you think of a bigger waste of time?
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : What's wrong with baseball?
William 'Bill' Sherman : Baseball! It's the national insanity. At a time like this when, when civilization is crumbling beneath our feet, our generation is playing baseball, and singing songs like...
Chorus : [sings in the background] We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay
William 'Bill' Sherman : We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay. Isn't that silly?
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : I rather liked it.
William 'Bill' Sherman : Have you heard the rest of it?
[sings]
William 'Bill' Sherman : You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away. As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
[back to speaking]
William 'Bill' Sherman : That musta been written by a man with a glass of beer in one hand and a rhyming dictionary in the other.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, I think it's beautiful.
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Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Won't you come in and have a nice cool glass of buttermilk?
William 'Bill' Sherman : Yeah. I guess I'd like that. Marjorie?
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Yes, William?
William 'Bill' Sherman : In all fairness, I've got to tell you something.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : What?
William 'Bill' Sherman : I don't believe in marriage.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : But I just asked you in for some buttermilk.
William 'Bill' Sherman : Well, I... I didn't want to drink it under false pretences.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Well, my goodness. Maybe, I don't believe in marriage, either.
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[William storms out of Marjorie's house after a misunderstanding with her family]
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Won't you please come back?
William 'Bill' Sherman : I only make a fool of myself once a night.
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[the electricity goes off in Marjorie's house; she lights a match before going to walk Bill to the door]
William 'Bill' Sherman : Marjorie? I'd like to call on you again.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : [cheerily] When?
William 'Bill' Sherman : Would, uh, tomorrow morning be too soon?
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, no!
[the match goes out and they kiss for the first time in the dark]
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Wesley Winfield : Seems to me a person wouldn't sing so loud in the morning when they knew another person's got a sick headache!
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Seems to me a person always gets a sick headache on school days.
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William 'Bill' Sherman : Think, we might never have met if you hadn't taken a shot at me.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, don't joke about that! Why, I might've killed you!
William 'Bill' Sherman : Well, what's one life more or less when all of Europe is bathed in blood?
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Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , Hubert Wakely : [sings] Love ya, love ya, honey / Love ya, love ya, honey.
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Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : [sings] Christmas, can't you hear the church bells ringing?
Carolers : [sings] Ooooh...
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Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings] So wait and pray each night for me, till we meet again.
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Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings] We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay / We could hear the voices ringing / They seemed to say.
Chorus : [sings] Wish we could stay.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings] You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away.
Chorus : [sings] Nobody here but you and me.
Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings] As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
