Athena (1954)
Vic Damone: Johnny Nyle
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Quotes
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : You earned $300,000? Now, let's start from the beginning, just what did you do to earn all this money?
Johnny Nyle : I sing in television, radio, records, night clubs.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : You get all that money singing?
Johnny Nyle : I guess you wouldn't call it singing. I'm a - a crooner.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : There ought to be a law against that.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : What's the phone number?
Johnny Nyle : Oh, they don't believe in telephones.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Telephones are not a matter of faith!
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Johnny Nyle : [singing] The moment I saw her smile, I knew she was just my style...
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The Sisters: Athena : I have six sisters and you'll like them all, but - it's Minerva, all right.
Johnny Nyle : Are they anything like you?
The Sisters: Athena : Oh, I'm the Ugly Ducking.
Johnny Nyle : That's good enough for me. When do I meet your sister?
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Johnny Nyle : I guess between a guy like that and a guy like me, anybody'd rather have a guy like that.
The Sisters: Minerva : Well, muscles aren't everything, sometimes it's personality, and the way a fella smiles.
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Johnny Nyle : [singing] Imagine you're a flower, a full blown flower, Imagine I'm a rather fresh bee, If I came along at just the right minute, You'd be sweet to me, As sweet as honey to me.
The Sisters: Minerva : Honey?
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Let's have a rollickin' song, Honey. Something with a lot of zoom, zoom, zoom in it. I don't sing very well, but I great on the zoom, zoom, zoom.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I can hardly wait.
The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : [singing] Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Ah-ah-ah-ah
The Sisters: Athena : Life is fun if you harmonize
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain , The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : Full of sun if you harmonize, Re Do Ti Do, It's my credo...
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The Sisters: Minerva : Oh, well, I want to Johnny. More than anything. But, the stars say...
Johnny Nyle : The stars say we'll have trouble. I'd rather have trouble with you than without you.
The Sisters: Minerva : You can't change the stars, Johnny.
Johnny Nyle : [singing] Soon we'll kiss and stars will fade in the mist for me, They'll only exist for me, If they shine in your eyes, When two hearts are entwined, Venus waltzes with Mars. Hand in hand, we will find, Love can change the stars.
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Johnny Nyle : [singing] Where in the world would you hear, Mandolins playing while glasses are clinking, Gaily, daily...