Carefree Monologues

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Carefree (1938) A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.

Perhaps if I psychoanalyze you, you won't wanna marry Amanda.

Say, Steve, when I went to Switzerland you never drank like this. How long have you been tight?

And all because this Amanda What's-Her-Name broke her engagement to you?

Remember when we were in college how stage-struck I was? I wanted to be a dancer. Psychoanalysis showed me I was wrong. It's the one way we have of finding out what we really want and why we want it.

Well, you do know that you have two minds: The conscious and the subconscious.

The conscious mind is the ego. That's the thing that says, "I am I, and you are you."

There's a Miss Cooper waiting for me. She's another one of those dizzy, silly, maladjusted females who can't make up her mind. I'll probably find out she hasn't got one.

Till I met you, I never knew a setting sun, Could paint such beautiful skies, I never knew, There were such lovely colors, And the big surprise, Is the red in your cheeks, The gold in your hair, The blue in your eyes.

Dr. Jones, I am turning this case over to you for further treatment. My observations are as follows: She's a typical pampered female. What she needs, instead of a doctor, is a good spanking.

Queer what a difference, When your vision is clear, And you see things as they really are...

We're never really afraid of anything we understand.

I wish you'd please understand that I'm only trying to help you find yourself.

Must you dance, Quite so close, With your lips touching his face? Can't you see, I'm longing to be in his place, Won't you change partners, And dance with me?

Dreams are very curious things, Amanda. Very often, the dream fantasy makes things seem true to the dreamer when in reality, they have no basis in fact.