Baby Face (1933)

George Brent: Courtland Trenholm

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• Courtland Trenholm : Miss Powers, no one could help but be moved by your story. It's obvious, as you say, that you were a victim of circumstance. You have our sympathy. Of course, any talk of money must be very distressing to a sensitive person. You've told us how distasteful it would be for you to accept money from a paper. I'm afraid it would be equally distasteful to accept money from the bank. Perhaps we've been somewhat crude in our suggestion. You also told us how hard you had to work. When this thing happened, were you - working very hard?

  Lily Powers : Yeah, but not at the bank.

• Courtland Trenholm : You're hard to please.

  Lily Powers : No, I'm not really. Just a little disappointed.

  Courtland Trenholm : Disappointed? In what?

  Lily Powers : You.

  Courtland Trenholm : Why?

  Lily Powers : Oh, I don't know. I was hoping you wouldn't be like everybody else. Silly of me, wasn't it?

  Courtland Trenholm : Well, I'm disappointed in myself. Because you're beginning to upset me.

• Courtland Trenholm : Don't you realize I'm in love with you?

  Lily Powers : No you're not.

  Courtland Trenholm : Yes, I am! I can't wait to get back to Paris to buy all the jewels and Cartiers. To take you to the motor salons - where you can pick out any car that you like. I want to give you a house in Paris and another in New York. There isn't anything in the world I wouldn't give you.

  Lily Powers : That isn't love.

• Lily Powers : There's only one thing I want.

  Courtland Trenholm : Name it, and it's yours.

  Lily Powers : I'd like to have a "Mrs." on my tombstone.

• Courtland Trenholm : Are you really thinking? Or, just pretending to?

  Lily Powers : That's the nice part of being with a mastermind. You do the thinking for both of us.

• Courtland Trenholm : [Meeting with the Board of Directors]  Gentlemen, I shan't take up your time telling you how much I appreciate this honor. Some of you probably think I should stick to polo and not try to run a bank. But, I'm sure that with your help, I can't go very far wrong.

• Courtland Trenholm : Frankly, I am surprised.

  Lily Powers : Why?

  Courtland Trenholm : I didn't expect you to stick to the job.

  Lily Powers : That's why I stuck.

• Courtland Trenholm : Thank you, Miss Powers. You'll like Paris. It's delightful in the Springtime.

  Lily Powers : Yeah, you think of everything, don't ya?

• Courtland Trenholm : It would have been easy for you, to come here to Paris and have a somewhat - gayer time.

  Lily Powers : It would have been too easy.

• Lily Powers : This is as far as I go.

  Courtland Trenholm : Oh, so this is where you live.

  Lily Powers : All the charm of the old world and the old world plumbing.

• Courtland Trenholm : Then you're coming to Deauville?

  Lily Powers : Deauville's too crowded.

  Lily Powers : How about Biarritz?

  Lily Powers : Not crowded enough.

  Courtland Trenholm : I'll tell you what, would you like to motor through the chateau country?

  Lily Powers : And see all those lovely fourteenth century ceilings?

  [Shakes her head no] 

• Courtland Trenholm : Darling, how long is this going on?

  Lily Powers : Aren't you happy?

  Courtland Trenholm : These have been the three happiest days of my life. But...

  Lily Powers : But, what?

  Courtland Trenholm : Well, I don't enjoy saying good night to you, every night, outside the door of your stateroom.

• Courtland Trenholm : Would you take Harry with you.

  Lady Montereau : [to Harry]  Come along, you loathsome little man.