The Americanization of Emily Quotes

The Americanization of Emily is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Americanization of Emily ended its run in 1970.

It features Martin Ransohoff as producer, Johnny Mandel in charge of musical score, and Philip H. Lathrop as head of cinematography.

The Americanization of Emily is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Americanization of Emily is 115 minutes long. The Americanization of Emily is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Melvyn Douglas as Adm. William Jessup, Julie Andrews as Emily Barham, Joyce Grenfell as Mrs. Barham, John Crawford as Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams, Alan Sues as Petty Officer Enright, and Keenan Wynn as Old Sailor.

The Americanization of Emily Quotes

Melvyn Douglas as Adm. William Jessup

• (Melvyn Douglas) "We're gonna make a brass band hero out of Charlie."

• (Melvyn Douglas) "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor."

• (Melvyn Douglas) "It seems I cracked up, Charlie."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "That's the price a sane man makes, sir."

• (Melvyn Douglas) "You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero."

Julie Andrews as Emily Barham

• (Julie Andrews) "I believe in honor, service, courage, and fair play, and cricket, and all the other symbols of British character. Which have only civilized half the world."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "You British plundered half the world for your own profit, let's not pass it off as the age of enlightenment."

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "I don't trust people who make bitter reflections about war, Mrs. Barham. It's always the general with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. It's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades."
• (Julie Andrews) "That was unkind, Charlie, and very rude."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on the ministers and generals, or warmongering imperialists, or all the other banal bogeys. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers. The rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields. We wear our widow's weeds like nuns, Mrs. Barham, and perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices."

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Easy, tiger, that's a tailored shirt."
• (Julie Andrews) "Oh, shut up and let me kiss you."

• (Julie Andrews) "Then why do it?"
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Because it's the right thing to do."
• (Julie Andrews) "I can't believe it. Is this the Charlie Madison who once said "God save us from all the people who do the right thing, it's the rest of us who get our backs broken"?"

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "And what do you get out of it?"
• (Julie Andrews) "I'll settle for a Hershey bar."
• (Alan Sues) "Hey Bus, there's; there's a million of 'em there. There's correspondents all over the place. Hi Charlie."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "All right, fink, how do you want me to play it? Modest and self-effacing?"

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "You're forever falling for men on their last nights on furlough. That's about the limit of your commitments, one night, a day, a month. You prefer lovers to husbands, hotels to homes. You'd rather grieve than live."
• (Julie Andrews) "You're not only cowardly and selfish; you're remarkably cruel as well."

• (Julie Andrews) "It's just one big Shriner convention for you Yanks."

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Emily, I want the world to know what a fraud war is."
• (Julie Andrews) "But war isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. At least that's what you always tried to tell me, isn't it? That we shall never get rid of war by pretending it's unreal? It's the virtue of war that's the fraud, not war itself. It's the valor and the self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs the exposing. And here you are being brave and self-sacrificing, positively clanking with moral fervor, perpetuating the very things you detest merely to do "the right thing". Honestly, Charlie, your conversion to morality is really quite funny. All this time I've been terrified of becoming Americanized, and you, you silly ass, have turned into a bloody Englishman."

• (Julie Andrews) "I don't want any more doomed men."

• (Julie Andrews) "You lack principles, Charlie. Isn't there anything you would die for?"
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Sure. I'd die for you, if it ever came to that."
• (Julie Andrews) "I really believe you would."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle."

Joyce Grenfell as Mrs. Barham

• (Joyce Grenfell) "Emily, I must warn you. Charlie's picture is in all the papers and they're going to put up a monument on his grave."
• (Julie Andrews) "What on earth for? All he did was die. Dear me, we shall be celebrating cancer and automobile smash-ups next."

Keenan Wynn as Old Sailor

• (Keenan Wynn) "Hey, Commander."
• (Keenan Wynn) "You see that little kid on the floor?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "Well him and me have been stoned for two days. We started out with three bottles of vanilla extract. Then we got in with some submarine fellas and we finished off a number 10 can of topedo alcohol. You gotta be pretty stoned after that, right?"
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "I would think so."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Well, Commander, we ain't that stoned. We're not that stoned if we're gonna go out onto that beach and take pictures of the dead bodies floating in with no film in the camera."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Well then, what'd ya say we don't make this movie? Huh."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Hey, that's swell."

• (Keenan Wynn) "Oh, well now, I'll tell you one thing. You gotta put film in this camera."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Are you sure of that?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "Well for the love of Mike; I mean; What's the matter with you? If you're gonna make a movie you gotta put film in the camera. Even I know that."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "No, no no. No. We're gonna make this movie without film. This movie, sailor, cannot be made, has no reason for being made, and none of us know how to make a movie anyway. So what's the sense in using film?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "Makes sense."

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "What do you think of that."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Commander, I think you're out of your everloving mind."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "You can say that again."

John Crawford as Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams

• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Hi, Harry. It'll only be a few moments, sir. Put that hand luggage in the automobile. Paul? Paul."
• (John Crawford) "Yeah."
• (Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison) "Put the footlocker in the jeep. Everything else goes in the two-and-a-half. Unloading shouldn't take long, so you won't be more than a few minutes behind us. I'll see you back at the hotel. Harry. Is everything set at the hotel?"
• (Unnamed) "Hiya, Charlie."

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