It's a Date (1940)
Cecilia Loftus: Sara Frankenstein
Quotes
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Pamela Drake : Oh, I'm old for my age. If you're raised in the theater, you age quicker, is the way I look at it.
Sara Frankenstein : You're practically an old hag, Pam.
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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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Pamela Drake : Sara, I'm going to be famous. Bernhardt, Modjeska, Duse, and Pamela Drake.
Sara Frankenstein : Yes, they were good too. But don't you think your name ought to go in front?
Pamela Drake : Oh, I'm not any better than they were, I admit it
Sara Frankenstein : Well, that's nice.
Pamela Drake : But they never had a part like this one
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Sara Frankenstein : What's it about?
Pamela Drake : Well, I play everything. I'm happy and I'm sad. My heart's broken. I wanna kill myself. I go crazy. I recover. I go crazy again. Oh, Sara, it's the real me.
Sara Frankenstein : Yeah, I , I see a certain similarity.
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Sara Frankenstein : [to John Arlen] My dear, when it comes to a woman, a man can't press too much.
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Pamela Drake : This is Freddie Miller.
Freddie Miller : How do you do, Mrs. Drake.
Pamela Drake : And, Sara... Sara Frankenstein.
Freddie Miller : How do you do Miss Frankenstein.
Sara Frankenstein : [Glaring at Pamela] How do you do.
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Sara Frankenstein : Oh, now, honey, a shipboard romance. I hope you're not go...
Pamela Drake : [Chuckling] You're acting like a mother in a play. You're so naïve, mother - really, you are.
Sara Frankenstein : Never mind my being naïve - I'm old enough to be your mother.
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Pamela Drake : Why, I feel like I'm 20 years older than you are.
Sara Frankenstein : Oh, you do?
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Pamela Drake : Sara, was grandmother a better actress than mother?
Freddie Miller : I think so, but I guess it would be natural for me to think so.
Pamela Drake : What do you think, mother?
Sara Frankenstein : I don't know either. I saw her often enough. She was wonderful. But I was so wrapped up in myself, I thought I was the most wonderful actress in the world.
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Sara Frankenstein : You wouldn't want any advice from grandma, would you?
John Arlen : Oh, grandma, shoot. What is it?
Sara Frankenstein : A little more attention to Georgia.
John Arlen : Uh, huh.
Sara Frankenstein : Georgia! Not Pam.
John Arlen : You don't think I'd be pressing it a bit?
Sara Frankenstein : My dear, when it comes to a woman, a man can't press too much. That's inside information
John Arlen : You think so?
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John Arlen : Sara, I'm a desperate man.
Sara Frankenstein : Go on.
John Arlen : I never proposed to a woman before. Whatta ya do?
Sara Frankenstein : I never did either.
John Arlen : What's the best tact? Do you throw it off as sort of a joke? Or, uh, do you talk seriously? You know, uh, heart to heart.
Sara Frankenstein : I would say according to whom you're proposing.
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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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Sara Frankenstein : [When Pam comes back early from an island tour by John] What happened?
Pamela Drake : He's got a stomach ache. You can't propose to a man when he's got a stomach ache. I'll get him tomorrow night, at the ball. I had a terrible time with him - afraid of a little menace. Men are just like children.
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John Arlen : I've been considering writing it out and mailing it with a self-addressed tamped envelope.
Sara Frankenstein : Is it a younger woman, or someone nearer your own age?
John Arlen : No, that would be cowardly. A woman wouldn't like that.
Sara Frankenstein : If you'd only give me a hint.
John Arlen : The thing to do is to say what comes in your mind at the moment. I know that.
Sara Frankenstein : Well, is it somebody I know?
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Sara Frankenstein : I'm not bothering you by talking through your lines, am I?
John Arlen : Sara, what's your opinion, honestly?
Sara Frankenstein : You're more desperate than I thought.
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John Arlen : I thought that I might take Pam out tonight and...
Sara Frankenstein : Pam?
John Arlen : Yes, why?
Sara Frankenstein : Oh, no, nothing.
John Arlen : You see, I thought if I took Pam out I could get her to ask Georgia for me, because they're pretty close, you know.
Sara Frankenstein : Georgia?
John Arlen : Say, what's the matter with you?
Sara Frankenstein : Nothing. Eh heh, that'll be fine.
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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?