Libeled Lady (1936)

Spencer Tracy: Warren Haggerty

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• Warren Haggerty : She may be his wife, but she's engaged to me!

• Warren Haggerty : Gladys, do you want me to kill myself?

  Gladys : Did you change your insurance?

• Harvey Allen : What'll we use for a headline?

  Warren Haggerty : I don't care. Anything. "War threatens Europe!"

  Harvey Allen : Which country?

  Warren Haggerty : Flip a nickel!

• Warren Haggerty : They're married, all right.

  Gladys : Oh, but that's arson.

  Warren Haggerty : You mean bigamy.

• Warren Haggerty : Would I ask you to do this thing for me if I didn't consider you practically my wife?

  Gladys : Would you ask your wife to hook up with that ape?

  Bill Chandler : The ape objects.

• Gladys : I don't care who he is. Nobody talks to me like a house detective.

  Warren Haggerty : How do you know how a house detective talks?

  Gladys : Don't you think I read?

• Gladys : You can't do this to me, Warren Haggerty. Not to me. First, it was a fire at sea. Then it was a kidnapping. What's the gag this time?

  Warren Haggerty : Darling, there's no gag. The newspaper's made a mistake.

  Gladys : Yeah, well so has little Gladys - engaged to a newspaperman.

• Warren Haggerty : I knew I was a sap.

  Bill Chandler : That's right, you were. But you'll get your money's worth.

• Warren Haggerty : Why, there isn't a newspaper in the world that would hire me as an office boy, would they Bill?

  Bill Chandler : Not if they knew you like I do.

• Warren Haggerty : Where did you go when you left us Bill?

  Bill Chandler : Intelligence Department Warren, I always did like contrast. Well, Cheerio!

• Warren Haggerty : [introducing]  Mr. Bane, my future wife.

  Mr. Bane : Nonsense! I'll be in my office. Get rid of this woman!

• Ching : Maybe Miss Benton again. I'm afraid...

  Warren Haggerty : You're afraid? I'm marrying her, and you're afraid.

• Gladys : I knew I'd find you with a drink in your hand.

  Warren Haggerty : What are you doing here?

  Gladys : Well, what are *you* doing here?

  Warren Haggerty : Didn't Ching tell you?

  Gladys : Yes, Ching told me and I told him and now I'm telling you! I won't stand for it.

• Warren Haggerty : And I'm gonna bring in the best guy we ever had on a libel suit.

  Mr. Bane : Who's that?

  Warren Haggerty : A guy that I guarantee to beat anybody in the world from Ghandi to Garbo - Bill Chandler.

  Mr. Bane : Bill Chandler? Yes. And you fired him - the best man we ever had on libel. You admit it and you fired him.

  Warren Haggerty : Yes, and I'd do it again. He was a heel, a demented double-crossing heel. Tried to run the whole paper. Thought he knew more about it than I did.

  Mr. Bane : And was right.

  Warren Haggerty : Yeah.

• Cable Editor : Hey, maybe that guy's dead.

  Warren Haggerty : Yeah, it'd be just like him to die at a time like this.

• Warren Haggerty : Aw, come on now. You mustn't fight.

  Bill Chandler : Why not? We're married.

  Warren Haggerty : Well, you're supposed to be happily married. You're supposed to be crazy in love with each other.

  Gladys : Yeah, and I must have been crazy to let you marry me off to another guy.

• Warren Haggerty : [to copy boy]  Here son, tell Douglas to print up one copy of the evening edition. Put that item at the head of the society column.

  Johnny : One copy?

  Warren Haggerty : That's what I said.

  Johnny : Gosh, our circulation is certainly falling off.

• Warren Haggerty : I promised I'd meet her at the alter at the stroke of 12. And they'll be no reprieve from the Governor this time.

  Ching : I hope you be - very happy.

  Warren Haggerty : Yes, said the spider to the fly.

• Warren Haggerty : I tell you I can't go now. The paper's in a jam. We're facing a libel suit!

  Gladys : Well, you're facing a breach of promise suit. If you don't want to marry me, just say so!

  Warren Haggerty : Gladdie, you're getting yourself all upset, darling. Over, here, a little drinkie, maybe?

  Gladys : No, not today I don't. Today I get married!

• Bill Chandler : Cheerio.

  Warren Haggerty : Wait a minute, what's your hurry?

  Bill Chandler : Breakfast time.

  Warren Haggerty : Breakfast can wait. I got an idea.

  Bill Chandler : I'll take breakfast.

  Warren Haggerty : I want to talk to you.

  Bill Chandler : Why, Warren, you weren't like that when I left.

  Warren Haggerty : This is a proposition.

  Bill Chandler : Not before breakfast.

• Mr. Allenbury : And you can tell your owner, Mr. Hollis Bane, we're not entertaining any representatives of his yellow rag in this house.

  Warren Haggerty : I'll make it a point to tell him. You're entertaining no representatives of the Evening Star.

• Warren Haggerty : Not four hours ago, I heard your two-timing Romeo whispering sweet nothings into the ears of Connie Allenbury. Now what do you think of that?

  Gladys : Bill told me all about it. That's technique, Warren. You wouldn't understand it.

• Gladys : You're so obvious, Warren. Why can't you be subtle, like Bill?

  Warren Haggerty : Are you going to listen to him or are you gonna listen to me?

  Gladys : I'm going to listen to Bill. He knows best.

• Warren Haggerty : There he is, torn from our arms, the bridegroom of an hour.

  Gladys : Well, that's too long for me.

• Warren Haggerty : What a lady-killer you are. One look at you and the gal disappears.

  Bill Chandler : Say, don't worry. Rome wasn't built in a day.

  Warren Haggerty , Bill Chandler : No. It didn't cost $5 million either.

• Warren Haggerty : Say, what's gong on here?

  Editor : Maybe he's working on the wrong girl.

• Warren Haggerty : A fine mess you made of this. And all because you tried to steal Gladys.

  Bill Chandler : [Stammering]  I... Say, I wouldn't try to steal Gladys if she was the last female on earth.

  Warren Haggerty : Female, huh? That does it. You can't stand there and insult Gladdie.

• Warren Haggerty : You know, you've had this coming for a long time.

  Bill Chandler : [Both men take off their jackets]  Yes, and I've been looking forward to it.

  Warren Haggerty : We'll settle it right now.

  Bill Chandler : With interest.

• Ching : [Haggerty puts on his top hat]  Very pretty.

  Warren Haggerty : Pretty? I'm supposed to be the groom, not the bride!

• Warren Haggerty : Take my advice, Ching, don't ever get married.

  Ching : Oh, maybe not so bad, Mr. Haggerty. I mudder and fadder, day get married.

  Warren Haggerty : You're kiddin'.

• Warren Haggerty : Can't I stay away from here for one day without someone pulling a boner? You call yourself a newspaper man? Where's your nose?

• Bill Chandler : Now, here's the plan. Allenburys are in London. So I sail for England at once.

  Warren Haggerty : But they're coming back in 10 days.

  Bill Chandler : That's why I'm sailing, to come back with them. Five days on a boat. Anything can happen on a boat. I meet the girl. Perhaps she comes to my cabin.

  Warren Haggerty : Oh, no, no, no. Not this girl.

  Bill Chandler : Only for a cocktail. Perfectly innocent to her, to me, to everyone on the boat. Except our private detective, who radios my wife.

  Warren Haggerty : You got a wife?

  Bill Chandler : No. This is a setup, not a confession. But we hire some attractive girl to marry me and when the time comes, she stages a pretty little scene over her erring husband and sues Connie for alienation of affection.

  Warren Haggerty : That's it. That's it! The Star called Connie a husband-stealer and she denies it. All right, we duplicate the situation. Only this time she does steal a husband. This time, we're right!

  Bill Chandler : Let her go to bat with a libel suit after that and see what she collects.

• Warren Haggerty : It will be all right Gladys.

  Gladys : You mean you're going to leave me here alone?

  Bill Chandler : I'm here.

  Warren Haggerty : Darling, it'll be all right. It's just a business arrangement.

  Gladys : Well, it's mighty funny business if you ask me.

• Gladys : Hey, where are you going?

  Bill Chandler : To get some bed clothes. I'm sleeping out here.

  Gladys : Well...

  Warren Haggerty : You see, it'll be all right. Bill out here. You in there.

  Gladys : Warren Haggerty, do you mean to tell me that you're willing for me, your fiancée, the girl which you love...

  Warren Haggerty : Now, Gladys, please.

  Gladys : Listen, I've done plenty for you and the Evening Star, but, there's a time to draw a line and I'm drawing it!

  Warren Haggerty : Darling, there's nothing to worry about. I tell ya, I trust Bill like he was a brother!

  Gladys : Yeah, but, he isn't my brother!

• Mr. Bane : Appeal to her reason!

  Warren Haggerty : She has no reason... This is Connie Allenbury, the international playgirl, the spoiled daughter of the rich without a brain in her head! But I know how to handle her kind. I'm gonna throw myself on her mercy. I'm gonna appeal to her heart. I'm gonna pull out stops. Give her the sob stuff!

• Warren Haggerty : You know, Miss Allenbury, this situation has outgrown a petty fight. We've got to consider the humanitarian aspect. I must appeal to your social conscience.

  Connie Allenbury : Oh, thanks. I didn't know your paper thought I had one.

  Warren Haggerty : Oh, Now, now. Miss Allenbury, if you go through with this case, it's going to throw 500 people out of employment. Men and women, jobless, walking the streets - women like yourself, tired and cold and hungry. Driven to drink and ruin.

  Connie Allenbury : You write the editorials, don't you?

• Warren Haggerty : I'm going to wash up the Allenbury case and Mr. William Chandler with it. Gladys may be eating out of his hand now, but before I get through, she'll be biting it!