The Millionaire (TV Series)
Millionaire Angela Temple (1959)
Marvin Miller: Michael Anthony
Quotes
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Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the study to discover Tipton, seated in a high-backed chair at a desk containing numerous examples of ink blots. Only Tipton's right arm is visible to viewers] You sent for me, sir?
John Beresford Tipton : Mike,
[Tipton hands a card to Anthony]
John Beresford Tipton : do you know what this is?
Michael Anthony : [Observing] It's an ink blot, sir.
John Beresford Tipton : Oh, a very special ink blot, Mike. One of the original series of standard patterns devised for analyzing personality characteristics. To one person, it was a beautiful butterfly; to another, a funeral wreath.
Michael Anthony : [Wryly] It wasn't the ink blot itself.
[Anthony hands back the card to Tipton]
Michael Anthony : It was obviously what they had on their minds.
John Beresford Tipton : Fear plays strange tricks. It can transform something as innocuous as an ink blot into an object of horror.
[Tipton hands envelope to Anthony]
John Beresford Tipton : Our next millionaire, Mike.
[Anthony accepts envelope and bows]
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Michael Anthony : [Angela answers a knock on her door] Miss Angela Temple?
Angela Temple McLaughlin : Uh huh.
Michael Anthony : My name is Michael Anthony. I have a present for you. May I come in?
Angela Temple McLaughlin : Oh, of course.
[Anthony enters]
Angela Temple McLaughlin : Are you a friend of Kirk's?
Michael Anthony : Well, no,
[Opens his briefcase]
Michael Anthony : but I have a gift for you here.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : Oh, well my. We didn't even have time to send out wedding announcements. But look at all the things the girls from the office sent me.
Michael Anthony : Very beautiful.
[Displaying a check]
Michael Anthony : I hope you enjoy this as much.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : [Barely glancing at the check] A check? From whom?
Michael Anthony : The donor must remain anonymous.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : I've never heard of an anonymous wedding present.
[Looks more closely at the check]
Angela Temple McLaughlin : A million dollars!
Michael Anthony : A cashier's check for a million dollars.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : A cashier's check. You mean it's real?
Michael Anthony : Very, and tax-free.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : But... who would give me...
Michael Anthony : As I said before, the identity of your benefactor must remain unknown. And if you should reveal either the source of your good fortune or the amount to anyone other than your husband, whatever remains of the money is automatically forfeited.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : But why me?
Michael Anthony : [Smiling] Why not?
Angela Temple McLaughlin : [Angela laughs] Well, of course, why not?
Michael Anthony : Just sign this agreement.
Angela Temple McLaughlin : Oh. Yes, of course, If I can just remember my name. Uh.
[Angela signs]
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[first lines]
Michael Anthony : [to the viewers] My name is Michael Anthony. Until his death a few years ago, I was executive secretary to the fabulously wealthy John Beresford Tipton. This is Silverstone, the 60,000-acre estate on which Mr. Tipton lived out the last years of his life. Here he had ample time to indulge his many hobbies, the strangest of which was his habit of giving way to total strangers the anonymous gift of $1,000.000.
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Michael Anthony : [to the viewers] I had to travel up to Cloud Seven to find Angela Temple. Yes, she was in 7th Heaven, because it was her wedding day. She'd fallen in love with Kirk McLaughlin at first sight. And now, four whirlwind weeks later, she was going to marry him.