Mad Youth (1939)

Betty Compson: Lucy Morgan

Quotes 

• Count DeHoven : You mean to tell me you let your daughter go and visit Helen without even knowing where she lives?

  Lucy Morgan : Well, yes. She said she'd write in a few days.

  Count DeHoven : But all we know about Helen is that she ran away to marry a man she had never seen. A man she met through a matrimonial agency advertisement.

  Lucy Morgan : Yes, I... I guess that is so.

  Count DeHoven : Don't you know that some of those agencies are the worst kind of traps? That many of the customers are criminals, morons, white slavers, or people who are mentally or physically diseased?

  Lucy Morgan : Oh, I've never given it a thought.

  Count DeHoven : Oh, you American mothers, with your Bridge parties, and beauty shops, and your silly flirtations. Wasting your lives and neglecting your duties. Letting your children run wild for lack of sensible parental supervision.

  Lucy Morgan : Oh, you don't know American children. They're spoiled and disobedient, and drunken.

  Count DeHoven : Drunken? Yes, drunk with the exuberance of youth and sheer joy of living. There's nothing really wrong with the children of today. Nothing that proper environment and congenial home life wouldn't correct.

  Lucy Morgan : What do you expect us modern mothers to do?

  Count DeHoven : Quit trying to be butterflies. Get back to the business of being mothers, like your mother, and your grandmother, and generations of mothers before them.

• Lucy Morgan : I don't wanna grow old!

• Lucy Morgan : [on the phone]  So sorry to keep you waiting. Oh, the Escort Bureau. Yes, I did put in a call. I want a nice young man for a bridge party tonight.

• Lucy Morgan : Just a minute, Marian. You got your allowance yesterday, didn't you?

  Marian Morgan : Yes. Why?

  Lucy Morgan : I'm a little short and I'd like to borrow part of it.

  Marian Morgan : Well, you got your alimony last week, didn't you?

  Lucy Morgan : Yes, but, I have so many expenses.

  Marian Morgan : Gigolos do come high, don't they?

• Lucy Morgan : Game and rubber.

• Lucy Morgan : What does it take to warm you up? Cocktails?

  Count DeHoven : No, just a nice girl.

  Lucy Morgan : Well, don't you think I'm nice?

  Count DeHoven : Oh, very.

  Lucy Morgan : Then, why are you so cold?

  Count DeHoven : After all, I was engaged as an escort. I'm supposed to play bridge, drink, dance and be charming generally. But, my agreement says nothing of throwing in love and necking - gratis.

  Lucy Morgan : Well, if you're going to be so mercenary about it, perhaps that can be arranged too.

• Lucy Morgan : Why can't you get married and have a home of your own?

  Marian Morgan : Because I've never found a man I'd want to marry. The ones that would make good family men are so dumb, I couldn't stand them. And the ones I like are so worthless, I'd starve.

• Marian Morgan : You ought to realize, Mother, that you're no longer attractive to young men. You had your day. So, why don't you stop trying to fool yourself.

  Lucy Morgan : I won't give up. I won't!

• Lucy Morgan : I want some of the good things of life that I was cheated out of by a loveless marriage.

• [last lines] 

  Lucy Morgan : This is Miss Morgan. I'd like an escort for this evening. Oh, a nice young college type - about 27 or 28. About my own age, you know.