Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Keenan Wynn: Joe Backett

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Quotes 

• José O'Rourke : Well, guess this is what you call a happy ending, huh? After all, I got the girl I wanted, she got the man she wanted, and you - well, you got the business.

  Joe Backett : Yeah. Yeah, I sure did, didn't I?

• Joe Backett : Doesn't our business, our friendship, mean more to you than this, this, Romeo from the Amazon?

• Joe Backett : The mallet wielder insults me. I try to defend myself, and I'm accused of creating a scene.

• Joe Backett : She stood out like a swan in a bunch of mud hens.

• Joe Backett : I went right after her. Well, she knew me and knew what I wanted, but the answer was still no. I tried to convince her we could go places together, but she wasn't interested.

• Joe Backett : She hit the water and cut through it like a million-dollar yacht.

• Joe Backett : She lived in a little apartment near the college with all her trophies and her sister - a scatterbrained little chick who had a lot to offer, but couldn't seem to get anyone to take it.

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  Joe Backett : I'd like to tell you a story about a guy, a girl, and a bathing suit.

• Joe Backett : I kept telling her the swimsuit business was crying for us. With my ideas and her face and figure, we'd be a cinch!

• Joe Backett : You know, honey, love has ruined more big business than the Sherman Antitrust law.

• Joe Backett : I spent three hours with the president of the club waiting for you.

  Eve Barrett : And you waited in the bar.

  Joe Backett : Can I help it if he likes television?

• Joe Backett : Don't you read the papers?

  Lukie Luzette : Only the race results.

• Lukie Luzette : Nice-looking guy, if you like the type.

  Joe Backett : And I don't.

• Lukie Luzette : Big game, eh? Any good bets around?

  Joe Backett : Lukie, this is a polo match, strictly society stuff. Fifty bucks is tops in the locker room.

  Lukie Luzette : Fifty bucks? That's birdseed. I bet that on traffic signals.

• Joe Backett : Forget what I said. I should know that the kind of guy who would appeal to Betty couldn't get to first base with you.