Man Wanted (1932)

Una Merkel: Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman

Quotes 

• Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : You're Tommy's best friend, aren't you?

  Andy Doyle : Sure.

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : I'll humiliate him. I'll make him feel as cheap as he made me feel. I'll get revenge.

  Andy Doyle : How?

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : Oh, it's a marvelous idea. I'll marry you.

  Andy Doyle : Huh? No, no, no, no, no, no, I couldn't do that. You see, I promised my poor old mother that I wouldn't get married till I was sixty-five.

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : Ohh, I could make ya happy.

  Andy Doyle : Oh, I don't doubt that, you see, but my family's against marriage.

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : What?

  Andy Doyle : Oh sure, It's an old custom of ours. There hasn't been a marriage in my family for three generations.

• Thomas 'Tom' : Listen, kid, it isn't fair to you to be engaged.

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : Why not?

  Thomas 'Tom' : Well, that night we were all swanked up and I talked you into it. Who am I to be engaged to any woman?

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : You know something, you were just fooling, but, its true, if you hadn't been swank that night, we wouldn't be engaged.

  Thomas 'Tom' : I knew you had brains. I knew you'd see it that way.

  Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman : Why, of course, I do. Seeing you swank was what made me fall in love with you - the swell way you carried your liquor. Any boy who can get away with what you did, so politely, well, I want him for life.