From the Terrace (1960)

Actors: Harry Cheshire (actor), Raymond Greenleaf (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Jack Davis (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), George Grizzard (actor),

Plot: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.

Keywords: adultery, airplane-design, airplane-manufacturer, alcoholic-mother, alcoholism, based-on-novel, billiards, blackmail, boardroom, business
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Alfred Eaton: Glad to see you dried off.::Sandy Duffy: Thank you very much for fishing me out of the pond.::Alfred Eaton: My pleasure.::Creighton Duffy: And?::Sandy Duffy: And - Oh, yes. And it's a good thing I wasn't any smaller or you'd have had to throw me back.

Alfred Eaton: Incidentally, just where did you wear that little number until 2:00 this morning?::Mary St. John: I wore this little number to the Mona Lisa. [She takes his champagne glass that he had been drinking from] Would you unzip me in the back, please?::Alfred Eaton: I thought Sage didn't like that place anymore.::Mary St. John: Oh, Sage wasn't along. She stayed home with a bad tooth or something.::Alfred Eaton: What, just you and her husband?::Mary St. John: Just little old us.::Alfred Eaton: Can't you do any better than that?::Mary St. John: As a matter of fact, I could have, but unfortunately he had another date, with the Dingham Report.::Alfred Eaton: Dunham.::Mary St. John: Oh, so sorry, Dunham

Mary St. John: The trouble with this company is it's run by a lot of old men.

Sam Eaton: You've put on a couple of pounds.::Alfred Eaton: Soft living in the navy.

Mary St. John: If you're trying to annoy me, Mr. Eaton, you're succeeding.::Alfred Eaton: Would you like to go and cry or something?::Mary St. John: No, but I wouldn't mind if you faded into the sunset.

Mary St. John: Why didn't you bestow this honor on some other girl out there?::Alfred Eaton: Because I rather liked the view from the terrace. Then I saw you and I liked the view even more.::Mary St. John: You've touched me deeply.::Alfred Eaton: But not in the right places.

[Alfred is coldly welcomed home by his father]::Sam Eaton: How was the war?::Alfred Eaton: Okay I guess. We won it.

Martha Eaton: I have no heroes, only some people I love.

Alfred Eaton: What if I don't want to save my marriage?::James Duncan MacHardie: Then we've failed. Then you'll have failed, Eaton. Divorce is a damnable thing. It violates good order. It's a threat to good order.::Alfred Eaton: Isn't it just possible that infidelity might be grounds for a divorce?::James Duncan MacHardie: There are no grounds for divorce. And if you want my personal theology, infidelity is the lesser sin. I will do anything in my power to prevent a divorce.::Alfred Eaton: Including condoning infidelity?::James Duncan MacHardie: I consider your word "condone" disrespectful. I "condone" none of it. The problem of infidelity is between a husband, and wife, and God. The problem of divorce concerns the whole of civilization. What is marriage? An exchange of vows, a contract. It is my duty to myself and to any man who is working for me that he honor all his contracts. When you came here you found out that we always honor our word, even if it means taking the loss. This is the first opportunity you've had of putting yourself to our test.::Alfred Eaton: And if I don't choose to meet your test?::James Duncan MacHardie: You've worked hard and well, Eaton. You have a fine hard-earned record with us. You can't afford to throw that away.::Alfred Eaton: With all due respect, sir, I can afford to do as I please.::James Duncan MacHardie: And I say with all due respect that you can afford nothing of the kind.

Alfred Eaton: First he is going to look us over to find out whether we're sufficiently respectable. Then he is going to look me over to find out whether my halo's bright enough to qualify me for one of those desks of his at number 25 Wall Street. An aging fortress of banking integrity.

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

Actors: Charles McAvoy (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), George Guhl (actor), Charles Halton (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), James Burke (actor), George McKay (actor),

Plot: Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's father. Still, fear of never seeing his daughter again convinces the old man to also head to the States. In New York, Jerry becomes a policeman, although fighting crime seems to be easier than fighting with his father-in-law. Tragedy strikes when Nellie dies in childbirth. Jerry and the meddling old man continue to live together and have constant battles over how to raise young Nellie, who grows up to look exactly like her mother.

Keywords: actress-playing-multiple-roles, balls, based-on-play, birthday, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, character-name-in-title, childbirth, citizenship, dancing, death
Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical,

Quotes:

Michael 'Mike' Noonan: A clay pipe is a great blessing to a man. When you drop it you don't have pick it up.

Nellie Kelly: There's nothing like a darn good cry, is there?::Michael 'Mike' Noonan: There's whiskey.