Quotes from Jane Powell movies and TV shows

Milly: Raise your hat. What's the matter, Caleb?
Caleb: My hair ain't combed.

Adam: This is my brother Caleb.
Milly: How are you brother Caleb?
Adam: This is Milly, my wife.
Caleb: Your wife? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Hey Dan, he did it, he got married.

Milly: Say something nice, Gideon.
Gideon: Nice night for a coon hunt.

Adam: What do you call her?
Milly: I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off.
Adam: Hannah.
Milly: Hannah.
Adam: I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox.

Milly: Don't you like girls?
Gideon: We ain't never hardly ever seen one.

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