Dames are simple.I never met one that didn""t understand a slap in the mouth or a slug from a forty-five....Take my advice, kid, and forget all this fancy relationship stuff.The world is fulla dames.All you gotta do is whistle.Allan""s Supportive Married Friends - Dick and Linda:His married friends, hard-driven, workaholic Dick Christie (Tony Roberts) and pretty neurotic model-wife Linda (Diane Keaton) arrived and agreed o help Allan find another woman to share his life.He wanted o die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms....I didn""t mind telling Kit about stuff like this, cause strange things happened in his life, too, and some of the stuff he did was strange.Burns"" as a prospective suitor - after all, he""s a successful lumber businessman:Mrs.Stevens: How come you haven""t made a pass at my daughter? (To Frances) And don""t say, ""Oh, Mother!"" to me." He would use it to create artificial life: "a being who""s more powerful than him, with total allegiance to me.The film received a phenomenal ten Academy Award nominations for a comedy.It won a Best Actress Oscar for its under-experienced British (Belgium-born) actress named Audrey Hepburn - it was her first American film, although she had previously appeared in six European movies (includingLaughter in Paradise (1951, UK),The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK), andSecret People (1952, UK)), and on Broadway in an adaptation of Colette""sGigi.