It's a Date (1940)
Deanna Durbin: Pamela Drake
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Quotes
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Karl Ober : I can't work in New York anyway. Is this place far from here?
Pamela Drake : Oh, no, Mr. Ober, it's only Maine. You know where Maine is!
Karl Ober : No.
Pamela Drake : Oh, it's practically a few minutes from here! You could write fine there.
Sidney Simpson : 'A few minutes'!
Pamela Drake : [to Sidney, blithely] Yes!
[to Ober]
Pamela Drake : That's all, really.
Karl Ober : [wagging his finger] Then it isn't quiet enough. I have to go further away from New York.
Pamela Drake : Oh, good - it *is* far away! Takes a whole day to get there.
[to Sidney, brightly]
Pamela Drake : Really, I'm an awful liar, aren't I?
Sidney Simpson : Yes.
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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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Sidney Simpson : [to Karl Ober] Come on, let's get out of here before she wants to borrow a revolving stage.
Pamela Drake : Have you got one?
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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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Pamela Drake : [Rehearsing on the ship's top deck] A woman's love is like a cocoon.
John Arlen : [to Captain Andrew] She's a cocoon again.
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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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Freddie Miller : That's a wonderful curtain speech.
Pamela Drake : Isn't it? She used it three years ago when "The Fallen Angel" closed. She has another one I like even better.
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Karl Ober : I can't work in New York anyway. Is this place far from here?
Pamela Drake : Oh, no, Mr. Ober. It's only Maine. You know where Maine is?
Karl Ober : No.
Pamela Drake : Oh, it's practically a few minutes from here. Please come! You could write from there.
Sidney Simpson : A few minutes!
Pamela Drake : Yes, that's all, really.
Karl Ober : It isn't quiet enough. I have to go farther away from New York.
Pamela Drake : Oh, good, it is far away - takes a whole day to get there. Really.
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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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Pamela Drake : I always start out honestly, then if I see it's going to be a good scene, I just keep on going. I know what I'm doing, but I can't stop.
Karl Ober : [Chuckling] Wonderful!
Pamela Drake : I can't understand it myself, but I figure it's good experience, don't you?
Karl Ober : Maybe. But it must be awfully hard on your friends.
Pamela Drake : Oh yes, I know.
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Pamela Drake : Opening night she took 17 curtain calls - seventeen!
Freddie Miller : Really?
Pamela Drake : Uh, huh. She could've been bowing yet, but she got a crick in her back.
Freddie Miller : Really?
Pamela Drake : I spent half the night rubbing it.
Freddie Miller : Really?
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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 : [Walking up to Freddie who's twitching and jerking] Something disturbing you?
Captain of Waiters : They're all watching me. I wanna get that part.
Pamela Drake : What part, St. Vidus?
Captain of Waiters : The dope fiend.
Pamela Drake : Dope fiend?... I didn't say dope fiend, I sad dauphin - the French prince.
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Pamela Drake : Personally, I see the part played by a young, beautiful girl.
Sidney Simpson : Can you suggest somebody?
Pamela Drake : Don't come crying to me after the opening night.
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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 : [Rehearsing lines, sitting on a ship's deck chair] A woman's love is like a cocoon.
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Pamela Drake : I'm an awful liar, aren't I?
Sidney Simpson : Oh, yes, yes.
Pamela Drake : Well there you are. Now you'll both come up.
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Pamela Drake : [after jumping in the ocean, and John jumping after her] I think what you've done, exposing yourself because you thought I was in danger, is the finest, most unselfish thing I've ever heard of.
John Arlen : Yeah.
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Pamela Drake : [to Sidney and Karl] Wednesday - morning train.
Sidney Simpson : Yes, ma'am.
Karl Ober : Yes, ma'am.
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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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Pamela Drake : You're really the defenseless type - sweet, clinging. I can easily see where your mother must have been awfully worried about you when you were my age. But your daughter, dear, is made of different stuff.
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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 : 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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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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Pamela Drake : Well, it's about my mother.
John Arlen : I see.
Pamela Drake : Will you take us to dinner tonight?
John Arlen : Haven't you got anything to eat?
Pamela Drake : Oh, no, it isn't that. I have to have her out of the house at eight o'clock.
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John Arlen : Why didn't you tell me your mother was Georgia Drake?
Pamela Drake : Well, you never asked me. And every time people find it out, they quit talking about me and wanna know all about mother. So, I try to hide it.
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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.