Baby Face (1933)

Donald Cook: Ned Stevens

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• Stevens : Have a drink?

  Lily Powers : No thanks. I never touch it.

  Stevens : Oh, you don't want me to drink alone?

  Lily Powers : Well, maybe just a sip.

  [Pours herself a slug of whiskey and downs it in one gulp] 

• Stevens : [Lily seen putting on lipstick after her boss is reprimanded and fired for having followed her into the Ladies Rest Room]  Young woman! We have no place here for a girl of your sort. You're through, tonight.

  Lily Powers : Why, Mr. Stevens, it wasn't my fault. He followed me in there. What could I do? He's my boss and I have to earn my living. Oh, I'm so ashamed. It's the first time anything like that has ever happened to me.

  [Starts to cry] 

  Stevens : Well, I'll think it over. Report tomorrow as usual.

• Stevens : Lily, don't do this to me. I can't stand it. Its been brutal not seeing you.

  Lily Powers : Yeah? Well, you better get used to it. Listen, I don't owe you a thing. Whatever I do is my own business. You never had but one idea about me. That's all I ever meant to you.

  Stevens : Oh, but, Lily...

  Lily Powers : You made your choice. Now, what do you want?

  Stevens : You mean - I can't - see you anymore?

  Lily Powers : [Sarcastically]  How did you guess it?

• Stevens : [Lily sashays into Mr. Stevens' office]  Haven't I told you never to come beyond the front of this desk.

  Lily Powers : Oh, but I get so lonesome out there all by myself.

  [Runs her hands through Mr. Stevens' hair] 

  Stevens : Don't do that! How do you expect me to get any work done.

  Lily Powers : Hold me close.

  [They embrace as Mr. Stevens' fiancée walks in. Mr. Stevens chases after her. Lily lights up a cigarette] 

• Lily Powers : That's all there is to it. If you fire me, we're through. It isn't the job, I don't mind that. But, it just goes to show me how much you care.

  Stevens : Well, you know how much I...

  Lily Powers : How much you what?

  [Moves in close] 

  Lily Powers : Are you letting me go?

  [Kiss] 

• Lily Powers : Wait a minute, you're kinda mixed up, aren't you? I thought you left town?

  Stevens : Well, what else could I do? I was in a...

  Lily Powers : Jam? Well, I won't let you get in another. See what I mean?