Silk Stockings (1957)

Janis Paige: Peggy Dayton

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Quotes 

• Peggy Dainton : Writing, Directing, Cast. Those things don't mean a thing today. Today there are many other things that are much more important.

  [singing] 

  Peggy Dainton : Today to get the public to attend the picture show, It's not enough to advertise a famous star they know. If you want to get the crowds to come around, You've gotta have glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope and, Stereophonic sound...

• Steve Canfield : So you may have to persuade him

  Peggy Dainton : How can I persuade him if you can't?

  Steve Canfield : Because...

  [looking at her figure] 

  Steve Canfield : We're built differently.

• Steve Canfield : You know what prestige means.

  Peggy Dainton : Sure - pictures that don't make money.

• [repeated lines] 

  Peggy Dainton : There's absolutely no truth to the rumors. We're just good friends.

• Peggy Dainton : [singing]  I lately did a picture at the bottom of the sea, I wrestled with an octopus and licked an anchovy...

• Peggy Dainton : I read the script. I don't dig it.

• Steve Canfield : I wonder if we could use Boroff's music?

  Peggy Dainton : No! He's too square!

• Peggy Dainton : He's so long hair!

• Peter Ilyitch Boroff : But, my music is not for singing.

  Peggy Dainton : Oh, but Mr. Boroff, baby, didn't you ever hear about, eh, Chicoughski and, eh, Boradean?

  Peter Ilyitch Boroff : Tchaikovsky and Borodin are different. As composers, they have what is in Russia today a great advantage.

  Peggy Dainton : Oh, what's that?

  Peter Ilyitch Boroff : They are dead.

• Peter Ilyitch Boroff : I can't do it, Miss Dainton. Please, ask me anything else.

  Peggy Dainton : Well, Mr. Boroff, baby, you see, that's all I want.

  [reveals her plunging neckline] 

  Peggy Dainton : I've got everything else and if you could do this little ol' thing for me, we could see a lot more of each other. You know, dinners and things - like that.

• Peggy Dainton : How does it look?

  Madame Fabour : Perfect. But, perhaps we could alter the under garments so that the line will be more smooth!

  Peggy Dainton : Good! Good. Its what's under the dress that counts.

  [to Boroff] 

  Peggy Dainton : You know -

  [singing] 

  Peggy Dainton : Since my trips have been extensive everywhere, I've become a much wiser gal, For I've noticed that expensive underwear, Can improve a gal's morale. It is strange how lovely lingerie, Can affect a gal's false modesty, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk. Though she knows that boys are evil imps, Yet she yearns to give those boys a glimpse, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk...

• Peggy Dainton : [singing]  Though a gal may have been born a prude, She can quite reverse her attitude, If she's wearing silk and satin, Satin and silk...

• Peggy Dainton : [singing]  You cannot expect a burlesque queen, To cherish further hope, If her bra is made of buckram, And her G-string is made of rope, But she knows 'cause she has traveled miles, She can always lay 'em in the aisles, If she's wearing silk and satin, She can flatten any Latin, If she's wearing silk and satin, satin and silk...

• Peggy Dainton : [singing]  Jo-o-o-o-osephine, Commonly called Jo, Was a throbbin' robin, poor but chic, Born in ultry-sultry Martinique, Where she rose to reach the highest peak, And why so? 'Cause she had, Agitating eyes, Titillating thighs, Lubricating lips, Undulating hips, A figure simply swell, Plus other good points as well. Man, she was real cool and low...