On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Billy Gray: Wesley Winfield
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Quotes
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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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[Wesley has stolen Marjorie's letter to Bill for his homework]
Miss Mary Stevens : Wesley Winfield, you may read your letter.
Wesley Winfield : But ma'am...
Miss Mary Stevens : [sternly] You may read your letter!
Wesley Winfield : Yes, ma'am.
Miss Mary Stevens : Have you prepared one?
Wesley Winfield : Yes, ma'am.
Miss Mary Stevens : But, uh, you're going to find out that you've forgot to bring it, aren't you?
Wesley Winfield : [takes the letter out of his schoolbook] No, ma'am, I got it.
Miss Mary Stevens : Well, we'll listen to what you've found time to prepare. For once.
[Wesley stands in front of the class and reads "his" letter aloud]
Wesley Winfield : "Dear friend, you called me beautiful, but I'm really not beautiful, and at times, I doubt if I'm even pretty. Though my hair may be beautiful and if it is true that my eyes are like the blue stars... in... Heaven..."
[the class laughs]
Miss Mary Stevens : [to Wesley] Go on.
Wesley Winfield : [to himself] Oh no...
Miss Mary Stevens : Proceed!
Wesley Winfield : "A-A tremor thrills my being when I recall... your... last words to me... that last... that last..."
Miss Mary Stevens : [impatiently] Go on.
Wesley Winfield : "That-that last... evening... in... the moonlight when you... you..."
Miss Mary Stevens : Wesley, you will go on. And you will stop that stammering!
Wesley Winfield : "You-you kissed my shoulder and-and said that you would like to love me forever and ever... and ever... and ever..."
Miss Mary Stevens : Wesley...
Wesley Winfield : "A-And that if you believed in marriage you would... want me to... Yours respectfully, Wesley Winfield."
[Wesley quickly sits back down, embarrassed, while the class laughs at him]
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Mr. Winfield : Wesley, you stay out of the living room. Your sister is entertaining a caller.
Wesley Winfield : Is he telling her "her eyes are like the blue stars in Heaven"?
Mr. Winfield : Now, where did you pick that up?
Wesley Winfield : Ah, I've been around.
Mr. Winfield : Well, just the same, you stay out of the living room.
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Wesley Winfield : Marjorie's old petticoat! You've got me in Marjorie's old petticoat!
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[last lines]
Wesley Winfield : Here's your hat. Keep your head up and breathe through your nose.
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Wesley Winfield : Gee, it must be tough being a girl.