Tony Randall
(as Jonathan Forbes)
Lionel Barrymore
(as Martin Vanderhof)
Grandpa Vanderhoff: When I was courting your grandmother, it took me two years to propose. You know why? The moment she walked into a room my knees buckled, blood would rush up into my head and the walls would start to dance. Twice I keeled over in a dead faint.
Richard Gaines
(as Charles J. Pendergast)
Charles J. Pendergast: How about Saturday afternoon? I'll apply for the license tomorrow. Why, we could be back at work bright and early Monday morning!
From The More the Merrier
Joel McCrea
(as Joe Carter)
Joe Carter: You asked me if I was afraid to get married. I'm not afraid. I mean... will you marry me? I want to marry you Connie.
From The More the Merrier
Clark Gable
(as Rhett Butler)
Rhett Butler: Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?
Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett Butler: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett Butler: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
From Gone with the Wind
Gary Cooper
(as Longfellow Deeds)
Longfellow Deeds: I've tramped the earth with hopeless beat, Searching in vain for a glimpse of you. Then heaven thrust you at my very feet, A lovely angel, too lovely to woo. My dream has been answered, but my life?s just as bleak. I'm handcuffed and speechless, in your presence divine. For my heart longs to cry out, if it only could speak. I love you, my angel, be mine, be mine.
Laurence Olivier
(as Longfellow Deeds)
Groucho Marx
(as Dr. Hackenbush)
Dr. Hackenbush: Ah -- I knew your mother very well. I'll let you in on a little secret. Many, many years ago in the dear, dim past, I proposed to your mother.
Judy: But that's my father!
Dr. Hackenbush: No wonder he turned me down.
Judy: But that's my father!
Dr. Hackenbush: No wonder he turned me down.
From A Day at the Races
Hermione Gingold
(as Madame Alvarez)
Gaston Lachaille: May I come in?
Madame Alvarez: Please, Gaston... no papers... no scandal.
Gaston Lachaille: Madame, will you do me the honour, the favour... give me the infinite joy of bestowing on me... Gigi's hand in marriage?
Madame Alvarez: Thank Heaven!
Madame Alvarez: Please, Gaston... no papers... no scandal.
Gaston Lachaille: Madame, will you do me the honour, the favour... give me the infinite joy of bestowing on me... Gigi's hand in marriage?
Madame Alvarez: Thank Heaven!
From Gigi
Randolph Scott
(as Bilge Smith)
Bake Baker: I asked that little girl to marry me.
Bilge Smith: What???
Bake Baker: She turned me down.
Bilge Smith: Imagine a guy asking a dame to marry him.
Bilge Smith: What???
Bake Baker: She turned me down.
Bilge Smith: Imagine a guy asking a dame to marry him.
From Follow the Fleet