Parachute Jumper (1933)

Bette Davis: Patricia 'Alabama' Brent

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• Bill Keller : Why don't you dig in with me? I got a room. I only owe two weeks rent.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Say, do I look like that?

  Bill Keller : It's no proposition. You're out in the rainstorm and you haven't got an umbrella.

• Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Well, I still say its a lovely day.

  Bill Keller : What are you selling, weather reports? Don't waste your time, I'm broke.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : You would be.

  Bill Keller : Well, I guess the Depression's hit every business.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Oh, you got me wrong, buddy. I'm a stenographer without a typewriter to pound or piece of gum to chew or a place to put it.

  Bill Keller : Park the body, honey. Squat.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Thank you, seh.

  Bill Keller : Mississippi?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : No seh, Sugarville, Alabama, had me. But, New York's got me.

  Bill Keller : Okay, Alabama!

• Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : I've been expecting you! I knew you were too good to be true.

  Bill Keller : I just wanted to see how you were getting on.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Yeah, I've heard that one before. And I don't need to be tucked in, neither!

  Bill Keller : Where you going?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : YWCA!

  Bill Keller : Oh, now wait a minute, you got me wrong! Honest, it's not going to happen again. Not while I'm sober.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Well, I'll take a chance. Back to your cell, monk.

• Pilot with Alabama : Well, the worst is over, lady. The chutes open.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : But, he's fallin' so fast!

  Pilot with Alabama : Well, he's got to come down.

• Bill Keller : Look at those stars. Ah, it's a swell night, isn't it?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Awfully swell. Did you ever study astronomy?

  Bill Keller : No. Just anatomy.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : I mean the study of heavenly bodies.

  Bill Keller : Well.

• Bill Keller : Say, I wonder if those stars were wise to use two days ago, heh?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Maybe, they wink a lot.

• Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : It's like a cock-eyed dream.

  Bill Keller : Cock-eyed is right.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : I hope it stays nice and cock-eyed.

• Bill Keller : She's coming across with some cash, now. But, I got to go up and build a fire.

  Toodles Cooper : What are you, a visiting fireman?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : A fire? That dame looks plenty hot to me!

  Bill Keller : It won't be long. You just stay here and pot like this until I come back.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Okay, but, that fire racket burns me up.

• Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : He's been up there an hour, Toodles. It wouldn't take that long to build a fire with a pocket lighter.

  Toodles Cooper : Maybe he's rubbin' two dried sticks together.

• Bill Keller : Well, did you get any breaks today, kid?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : No, I guess people have stopped writing letters. I've got a sneakin' idea there's an oversupply of typewriter massagers.

• Bill Keller : Say listen, when are you, when are you going to stop saying no to me?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Oh, I knew you were going to spoil things.

  Bill Keller : No, no, no, no. I mean, I mean we can... get married.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Married? But, you don't know anything about me. You don't even know how old I am.

  Bill Keller : Well, that's alright. You look over 18.

• Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Good morning, Mr. Weber. I'm Miss Brent.

  Kurt Weber : Oh, yes. Won't you come a little closer, please. Well, what, eh, what experience have you had?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Three years, Mr. Weber. Shorthand. Typing. In fact, I think I can make myself quite handy around the office.

  Kurt Weber : Three years? Why, you don't look 17.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : I can look older, if you want me to.

• Bill Keller : How many times do I have to tell you, I'm sorry? Do I have to get down on my knees?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : You're no Mammy singer! The less you say, the better I'll like it.

  Bill Keller : But, you didn't have to move out on us!

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : I don't want any charity from you or from anybody! I had to have a job. And when I got the chance with Weber, I had to make the grade; however, I could. Now, as for what you overheard in there, made just about as much as a politician's promise.

• Bill Keller : Where'd you get the elegant burlap?

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Where'd you get the tux?

  Bill Keller : Mr. Weber bought it for me.

  Patricia 'Alabama' Brent : Mr. Weber took me buy buy too. Do you like it?

  Bill Keller : What there is of it.