Stowaway (1936)

Shirley Temple: Ching-Ching aka Barbara Stewart

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• Tommy Randall : You've been so nice to me, I'd like to buy you something. What would you like?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : A soup bone.

  Tommy Randall : A what?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : A soup bone. For my dog. He's awful hungry.

• Tommy Randall : Do you think your mother would mind if you joined us in a soup bone?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I haven't got any mother.

  Tommy Randall : Well, then, your father, or family?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I haven't any family. I haven't even got Chang.

  Tommy Randall : Who's Chang?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : He brought me here from Sanchow, and then he ran away with my money.

• Jenkins, First Mate : We found the stowaway, sir.

  Captain of SS Victoria : Well, where is he? Let me at him.

  Second Mate : It's not a he, sir.

  Mrs. Hope : It's this child here.

  Captain of SS Victoria : What, you?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I guess so.

  Second Mate : She doesn't even know how she got aboard, sir.

  Captain of SS Victoria : Well, what am I going to do with you?

  Susan Parker : I'll look after her.

  Mrs. Hope : Susan, don't be absurd!

  Captain of SS Victoria : Well, that's fine, Miss Parker. Bring her up to my quarters later, and we'll see that she's returned to her people. See you later, stowaway!

• Sun Lo : I hope you will always remember the sayings of our wise men.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I will, because you taught them to me.

  Sun Lo : It was an honor to instruct the child of my friends, your honorable father and mother.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Friendship is like a shelter from the rains of trouble.

  Sun Lo : And so it is my wish to protect you from trouble that may be here very soon. Bad men are on their way here. There will be looting and destruction. I have arranged for Chang to take you to the home of my honorable brother in Shanghai.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Shanghai? Oh, that's wonderful! I remember all the stories my daddy used to tell me about it.

• Mrs. Hope : What did you mean when you said you didn't know how you got aboard this ship? You must know!

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : But I don't. The last thing I remember is I fell asleep in Uncle Tommy's car.

  Susan Parker : Tommy who?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Randall. Tommy Randall.

  Susan Parker : Tommy Randall? Why, your Uncle Tommy is on board this ship!

  Mrs. Hope : I might've known you were his niece. He's a problem child, too.

  Susan Parker : I'll take you to him.

  Mrs. Hope : Considering his reputation, you'd better turn her over to the Captain.

• Atkins : There's a young lady to see you, sir, I think it's rather urgent.

  Tommy Randall : Oh, that's bad.

  Atkins : She's very beautiful, sir.

  Tommy Randall : Oh? That's not so bad.

  Atkins : She has a child with her, sir.

  Tommy Randall : Oh, that is bad.

  Atkins : She also has the captain with her, and he insists upon seeing you, sir.

  Tommy Randall : Oh, that's very bad!

  Atkins : Here you are, sir?

  Tommy Randall : What's that?

  Atkins : Your checkbook, sir.

  Tommy Randall : I don't know what your game is, young lady, but it won't work! I've never seen you before in my life, and besides I have witnesses to account for my whereabouts for the past twenty-seven years!

  Susan Parker : Mr. Randall!

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Uncle Tommy!

  Tommy Randall : Ching-Ching!

• Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : This is Susan Parker, my best friend. He's my best friend, too. Don't you think she's extravagant?

  Tommy Randall : She's magnificent.

  Susan Parker : Thank you. Charming little niece you have there.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I'm not really his niece, Susan. I'm just pretending.

  Captain of SS Victoria : Mr. Randall, aren't you the child's uncle?

  Tommy Randall : No, we met in Shanghai yesterday for the first time.

• Susan Parker : Richard! This is a surprise!

  Richard Hope : It's a surprise for me, too.

  Susan Parker : Oh, uh, Richard, this is Mr. Randall, and this is Miss Ching-Ching Stewart. I never thought I'd see you here.

  Richard Hope : Evidently not.

  Susan Parker : Weren't you surprised to see him here?

  Mrs. Hope : Hardly. I sent for him.

  Susan Parker : Marvelous. I love surprises, and I hardly ever get them.

  Mrs. Hope : Susan, I think your friends will excuse you.

  Susan Parker : Oh, Tommy, I must be going. You'll look after Ching-Ching, won't you?

  Tommy Randall : She'll be perfectly fine.

  Susan Parker : [leaving]  Goodbye, darling.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Goodbye, Aunt Susan. You like Susan, don't you, Uncle Tommy?

  Tommy Randall : You could call it that.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : I don't see how anyone could have fun with that Mr. Hope.

  Tommy Randall : I'm afraid fun isn't everything, Ching-Ching.

• Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Susan, close your eyes and put out your hand. I have something for you.

  Mrs. Hope : Susan! Where did that come from?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : From Uncle Tommy.

  Richard Hope : Who?

  Susan Parker : Well, I asked him not to buy it.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Look, he bought me a bracelet, too.

  Mrs. Hope : That must have cost...

  Susan Parker : Three hundred dollars. I saw the price tag.

  Mrs. Hope : He wouldn't have spent that much money if he didn't think you were interested in him.

  Susan Parker : I don't think I'm even going to answer that.

  Richard Hope : Of course, you'll return it, won't you, Susan?

• Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Are you really and truly my parents now?

  Susan Parker : We're the only parents you've got, darling.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Sun Lo says a child without parents is like a ship without a rudder.

• Judge J.D. Booth : Now, Ching-Ching, have either of the parties ever evidenced by their actions any proper legal grounds for divorce?

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : There is utterly no grounds for disturbing the marital status of the contestants.

  Randall's Lawyer in Reno : This is most irregular, your honor. The child clearly doesn't know what she's saying!

  Judge J.D. Booth : Oh yes, she does! Isn't this entire divorce case just the result of two adults behaving like stubborn children, refusing to break down and admit that they're in love with each other?

• Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : To be with the one you love is better for your health than medicine.

  Judge J.D. Booth : That sounds like a Chinese proverb.

  Tommy Randall : Oh, Judge, you haven't heard anything yet.

• Tommy Randall : Atkins, prepare Miss Ching Ching for bed.

  Atkins : Me, sir?

  Tommy Randall : Why sure - I don't know anything about undressing children.

  Atkins : I've never done anything like this before, sir.

  Tommy Randall : Well, there always has to be a first time for everything.

  Atkins : This is very awkward.

  Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching : Please Uncle Tommy - I can undress myself. I always do.

  Tommy Randall : I wish I could say the same!