Counsellor at Law (1933)

Isabel Jewell: Bessie Green

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Quotes 

• Bessie Green : Who's calling, please? Mr. McKey? K as in kitty?

• Bessie Green : [answering a call]  I thought you were dead and buried. Well sure I missed you, like Booth missed Lincoln. What do you think I've been doing, sitting around the house embroidering doilies?

• [repeated line] 

  Bessie Green : [at rapid-fire delivery as she operates the switchboard]  Simon and Tedesco... Who's calling, please... One moment please...

• Henry Susskind : Say, kid, that's some run you've got in your stocking.

  Bessie Green : Where? Oh, gee, now wouldn't that give you a pain and I just put 'em on clean this morning.

  Henry Susskind : I'll buy you a new pair if you let me put 'em on for you.

  Bessie Green : Hey, listen, one more crack like that out of you and you'll get a good slap in the face!

  Henry Susskind : Get hot, get hot.

• Bessie Green : [on the phone]  Huh? Ah, just a fresh mug in the office here, putting things down my back. Yeah, I know, they never can keep their hands to themselves.

• Arthur Sandler : Did you hear what I said, Greta Garbo?

  Bessie Green : Yeah, I heard you, I heard you.