It's a Date (1940)

Kay Francis: Georgia Drake

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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] 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Georgia Drake : You see, there's no disgrace in having a failure. But you mustn't have a part that makes you look bad.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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?

• 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.

• 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?