Woman Chases Man (1937)
Joel McCrea: Kenneth Nolan
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Quotes
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Kenneth Nolan : My father, God bless him, is a bit of a screwball.
Virginia Travis : What? Is he really screwy?
Kenneth Nolan : I didn't say "screwy". I said "screwball".
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Kenneth Nolan : Do you look at everybody like that or just me?
Virginia Travis : What?
Kenneth Nolan : You know you ought to do something about your eyes.
Virginia Travis : My eyes?
Kenneth Nolan : Yes. You shouldn't look at young men like that.
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Kenneth Nolan : And I like to listen to the wild geese flying. And I like to look at the moon and watch it gliding past the tree the way it's doing now. I like - If you don't mind my saying so - I - I like you.
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Virginia Travis : Do you like to walk up an escalator that's going down?
Kenneth Nolan : Why yes, I do! Do you like to hold your breath in the bathtub?
Virginia Travis : This is uncanny. Do you like to read backwards to yourself?
Kenneth Nolan : Why yes! I recite the alphabet backwards. Z-Y-X-W-V-U-T-S-R-Q.
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Virginia Travis : Oh, don't you feel in a mood?
Kenneth Nolan : Yes. I - I feel in a mood; but, I don't know exactly what it is.
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Kenneth Nolan : Gosh almighty.
Virginia Travis : Gosh almighty, me too.
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Virginia Travis : Yoo Hoo.
Kenneth Nolan : Yoo Hoo.
Virginia Travis : Yoo Hoo!
Kenneth Nolan : Yoo Hoo.
Virginia Travis : Yoo Hoo.
Kenneth Nolan : Yoo Hoo. Yoo Hoo. Yoo Hoo. Yoo Hoo.
[opens the door, surprised to see Nina]
Kenneth Nolan : Oh, you.
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Kenneth Nolan : Is she all right?
Judy : I've put her to bed. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Kenneth Nolan : Well, I didn't do anything.
Judy : That's the trouble.
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Kenneth Nolan : I was just going to beddy-bye. Bye.
Nina Tennyson : That's right, darling. I'll tuck you in!
Kenneth Nolan : Oh, there's an awful lot of tucking in going on around here tonight.
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Kenneth Nolan : Virginia, are you all right?
Virginia Travis : Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Kenneth Nolan : Well, now, you just get a good night's sleep and you'll feel fine in the morning.
Virginia Travis : Tuck me in.
[Kenneth tucks and turns out the light]
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Kenneth Nolan : People don't know what they're missing, staying out of trees.
Virginia Travis : Monkeys know.
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Virginia Travis : Is somebody else coming?
Kenneth Nolan : I didn't invite anybody else. Did you?
Virginia Travis : Only you.
Kenneth Nolan : Only us. And a tree. All night. Ah, we'll build a new world of our own. And the sun of a new day will rise on that new earth. We'll be Adam and Eve in a tree!
Virginia Travis : Adam and Eve.
[smiles, closes her eyes, snuggles up to Kenneth]
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Virginia Travis : It looks pretty hanging there.
Kenneth Nolan : Mighty pretty, mighty pretty. Yeah. Very pretty, very pretty. Mighty pretty, mighty pretty. It certainly does.
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Kenneth Nolan : You know, you're the first night tree climber I ever saw.
Virginia Travis : Oh, anybody can climb a tree in the daytime.