Frankie and Johnny (1966)

Peg: Have you seen Cully? He's been missing for an hour.
Frankie: Have you tried the lost-and-found department?
Peg: No. I'm afraid they'll find him.
Frankie: I always know where to find Johnny. In the casino losing his shirt.
Peg: Well, with the way the other girls look at him, you're lucky he isn't playing around.
Frankie: You know what I'd do if he ever did me wrong?
[pretends to point a gun to her head]
Peg: Shoot yourself?
Frankie: No, him.
Peg: Oh.
Frankie: [as Johnny walks in the room, Frankie pretends to shoot him]
[shouts]
Frankie: Bang! Bang! Bang!
Johnny: Oh!
[Johnny pretends to fall to his death]
Johnny: One last request before I... cross the great footlights up yonder.
Frankie: Like what?
Johnny: Like, would you loan me 25 bucks so I could pay Cully what I owe him?
Frankie: Cully loaned you 25? Where did he get it?
Peg: Between my nightgown and my petticoat.
Frankie: Do you know how much you owe me already?
Johnny: Who's counting?
Frankie: Are you sure you don't want this money to gamble?
Johnny: Word of honor and cross my heart and may you never kiss me again.
Frankie: He sounds sincere. What would you do, Peg?
Peg: What any woman with an ounce of pride or self-respect would do. Give him the money.
Johnny: [as Frankie gets the money out for Johnny] Greatest little bank in America. Two greatest little banks in America.
Peg: What a shame you don't have an account there.

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Frankie: [After Frankie and Johnny get through performing the Petunia number on stage] What were those signals?
Johnny: What signals?
Frankie: Between you and Cully, I'm not blind.
Johnny: Oh, those signals. Nothing, he just made a little bet for me.
Frankie: Now you've got helpers. Can't you lose fast enough alone?
Johnny: [Frankie starts walking away mad] Hey, where are you going?
Frankie: To have my head examined. There must be a hole in it!
Johnny: You can't help it if you're in love.
Frankie: [Cully shows up and Frankie bumps into him as she continues to walk away mad]
[shouts]
Frankie: Oh, you born losers, both of you!
Cully: What's the matter with her?
Johnny: She's crazy about the wrong guy. Me. I am a loser. But if I had 20 bucks, I could be a winner.
Cully: I hate myself for asking, but how?
Johnny: This gypsy fortune-teller that's parked across the river. I hear that everybody who takes her advice is hitting it rich.
Cully: So how come she lives in a wagon?
Johnny: The wagon is loaded with gold. You got 20 bucks?
Cully: Lucky for you, it just so happens...
Peg: You are the lowest person that ever lived!
Cully: Peg, my sweetheart. You've missed me.
Peg: You're not what I've missed.
Cully: No?
Peg: No! I missed the $50 I hid in my winter lingerie.
Cully: You know I never could keep out of your...
[Peg pokes cully with a pair of scissors]
Cully: Oh! Oh! You didn't have to stab me.
Peg: Oh, I should've listened to my sainted mother. She said you were just like my father.
Cully: I could never drink that much.
Peg: Don't you dare say one word about my drunken old man. Where's the money?

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Johnny: Don't worry. Did you ever know a gambler who couldn't promote a little betting money?
Gypsy: You also need Chesay.
Cully: Chesay? Who's that?
Gypsy: Chesay is gypsy good luck!

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Elvis Presley started working on the film on 11 April 1965.
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