It's a Date (1940)
Kay Francis: Georgia Drake
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Quotes
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John Arlen : Oh have a heart, lady. How'd I know you were gonna turn out like this?
Georgia Drake : You expected an old, fat dimwit, didn't you?
John Arlen : Georgia, huh, at my age, but, when a man has just so long, and... ..
[sic]
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Georgia Drake : What's the background of the play?
Pamela Drake : Uh, the Swiss Alps. Very colorful, you know - mountain people.
Georgia Drake : You mean this naval officer lives in the Swiss Alps?
Sara Frankenstein : They haven't even got a navy in Switzerland.
Pamela Drake : Well, it's kinda hard to explain. But the dialog's wonderful. It clears the whole thing up.
Sara Frankenstein : It must be some dialog.
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Georgia Drake : Your friends - one sends a message that he's broken his leg. The last fellow says he shot himself.
John Arlen : Now, Georgia, I explained that.
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Georgia Drake : An actress never belittles another actress, Pam.
Pamela Drake : Honest criticism is the guardian of art, ..
Georgia Drake : [Joining in, both women] .. the servant of the sincere and the despair and destruction of dishonesty.
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Georgia Drake : Don't tell me - let me guess. Your house is on fire. That means that you sent a message to yourself, to eat breakfast tomorrow.
John Arlen : No, it's really on fire. I did it myself to collect the insurance.
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Sidney Simpson : You know, he came 4,000 miles to see you, and was seasick all the way.
Georgia Drake : Oh, I'm awfully sorry.
Karl Ober : I would have gladly swum the entire distance - do you say swum?
Sidney Simpson : I don't know, Karl. I always avoid the word.
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Georgia Drake : You see, there's no disgrace in having a failure. But you mustn't have a part that makes you look bad.
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Governor Allen : Stop complaining, John. Miss Drake is going to sing.
Georgia Drake : I'd consider it an honor.
John Arlen : You haven't even got the right Miss Drake. I said Miss Pamela Drake.
Governor Allen : I just took it for granted you meant Miss Georgia Drake.
John Arlen : All right. Now, will you please ask Miss Pamela Drake to sing?
Governor Allen : Come on, Pamela, he's crazy.
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Pamela Drake : [Describing a make-believe play] You see, he's not good enough for her.
Georgia Drake : Why not?
Pamela Drake : Well, he, he's kinda sickly. He inherited it.
Sara Frankenstein : Kinda stollen from Ibsen, isn't it? That's these new authors for you.
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Georgia Drake : And he can't lose a whole evening of his life just watching someone make noise with soup.
John Arlen : Oh, now you're exaggerating. I knew that you weren't going to make noises with your soup.
Georgia Drake : What course did you expect to get away on? After the fish wasn't it?
John Arlen : No, no. I was gonna last all through dinner. I swear.
Georgia Drake : Coffee and everything? Oh, that was too much.
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Georgia Drake : Wait a minute! Just a minute!
Pamela Drake : For heaven's sake, just because a man asks me to marry him doesn't mean I'm going to. I'm very fond of him. He was very sweet to me on the boat, and I promised that you and I would have dinner with him tonight. Now, is that too much to ask?
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Georgia Drake : I'd like a few years of just being married. Really married.
John Arlen : A few years?
Georgia Drake : Well, uh, a few years for a honeymoon. You wouldn't mind if I went back to the theater sometime, would you?
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Sara Frankenstein : How old is he?
Pamela Drake : Well, he's over 18.
Sara Frankenstein : Twenty?
Pamela Drake : I'd say forty.
Georgia Drake : Forty?
Pamela Drake : [Mimicking walking with her fingers] Yes, mother. A real, grown up man. Like you see walking around, and he doesn't need his mother's permission to get married.
Sara Frankenstein : Yes, but you do. And don't you forget it for one minute.
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Georgia Drake : Sara, Pam almost fell in love again - on the boat.
Sara Frankenstein : I thought you gave men up when, when Lindbergh got married, wasn't it?