Honolulu (1939)

Robert Young: Brooks Mason, George Smith

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Quotes 

• Brooks Mason : That's Hollywood, you know, my dear.

  Cecelia Grayson : Hollywood?

  Brooks Mason : Eh, I'll never forget one night at Joan Crawford's. Norma Shearer and I...

  Cecelia Grayson : You met Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer?

  Brooks Mason : Oh, yes. Norma and Myrna - Myrna Loy - were with me all the time.

  Cecelia Grayson : Well, no wonder you never got time to write.

  Brooks Mason : Cecelia, I made up my mind when I left Hawaii, I would make myself worthy of you. I was determined to come back to you a different man.

  Cecelia Grayson : Who taught ya how to kiss?

  Brooks Mason : Eh... Mickey Rooney.

• Brooks Mason : What's it like in Hawaii?

  George Smith : Oh, there's nothing much to do there. Just peace and quiet.

• Brooks Mason : You're the guy they thought was me. Say, you do look like me. You look as much like me as I do. Huh, even more.

  George Smith : Why, you're Brooks Mason. I've been mistaken for you lots of times in Hawaii.

  Brooks Mason : Are you an Hawaiian?

  George Smith : Oh, no. I have a plantation there.

  Brooks Mason : Pineapples?

  George Smith : Yes, I grow pineapples. How did you know that?

  Brooks Mason : Well, all I know about Hawaii is is pineapples and ukuleles. And you can't grow ukuleles.

• Brooks Mason : Hey, who are you? What do you want? An autograph? How'd you get here?

  George Smith : I - I was just going to ask you that.

  Brooks Mason : I live here.

  George Smith : No, I was going to ask you how I got here.

• Brooks Mason : Did you see a ghost?

  Washington : Yeah. That's it. You jumped out the window and you dead. I'm gone!

  Brooks Mason : Don't tell me you're afraid of ghosts.

  Washington : Mr. Mason, when folks is dead, I'm through with 'em!

• Brooks Mason : Now, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Dorothy March and her impersonation of Bill Robinson, the King of Harlem!

  [Dorothy dances in black face] 

• Millie De Grasse : I thought she'd never get over her fright. We nearly died until the doctor came.

  Brooks Mason : What was the trouble?

  Millie De Grasse : Well, she woke up one night and she looked down and both her feet were black. But, when the doctor came, he took off her stockin's and then we all went back to bed.

• Dorothy March : This is Millicent De Grasse.

  Brooks Mason : How do you do, Miss De Grasse?

  Millie De Grasse : Oh, just call me Millie and cut De Grasse.

• Brooks Mason : I've never seen you looking more beautiful. And I missed you terribly. My mind was full of you. I kept subconsciously seeing you and hearing you and touching...

• Wong : Me know. Me know.

  Brooks Mason : Hey, what is this "me know" business?

  Wong : Me know you Brooks Mason.

• Cecelia Grayson : Darling.

  [short kiss turns into a long kiss] 

  Cecelia Grayson : Why, George, you've changed. I don't know what it is exactly, but, you're different somehow.

  Brooks Mason : [impersonating George Smith]  Different? How?

  Cecelia Grayson : Well, you, sort of take hold of things.

  Brooks Mason : Well, you said I needed a new approach.

  Cecelia Grayson : Approach, nothing. You've arrived!

• Brooks Mason : I'm afraid it wouldn't work. In a few weeks you'll be going back to the mainland to go on with your dancing, your career; and I'll be left here with a memory and a few pineapples.

  Cecelia Grayson : We'll work it out some way, darling.

• Dorothy March : Whatever you did, I'll stick by you. But, tell me the truth!

  Brooks Mason : I am telling you the truth!

  Dorothy March : I don't believe you.

• Millie De Grasse : Ahh-ah-ah. Better you don't talk. The less you say the less you'll have to take back.

  Brooks Mason : But, I'm Brooks...

  Millie De Grasse : Oh, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Everyone else in this world is one person and you have to be two - and both of them no good!

  Brooks Mason : Now, listen here...

  Millie De Grasse : And chances are you're somebody else, some place else, and engaged to a *third* girl. It's a - it's - it's trigonometry! That's what it is. Now, get out of here you bigamist!

• Brooks Mason : You could have saved me all this. Why didn't you tell them who I was?

  Wong : You say no tell. Mr. Smith say no tell. Wong, who is servant, Wong no tell.

  Brooks Mason : But, you knew they were taking me off to jail.

  Wong : All the same me, Wong no tell 'em. If they hang you, all the same me, Wong no tell 'em.

  Brooks Mason : All the same me. All the same me. Wong some dumb.

  Wong : Oh, you speak Chinese?

• Brooks Mason : What do I care about head winds? Don't you realize I'm going to be married in a few minutes?

• Wong : Wong get sensational idea.

  Brooks Mason : Sensational?

  Wong : Hollywood word.

• Brooks Mason : Listen, Joe, you mutton head!

• Brooks Mason : She's crazy about you, now.

  George Smith : Now?

  Brooks Mason : Eh, well, I mean, I know she's crazy about you, by the way she kisses me.

• [Movie star Brooks Mason, played by Robert Taylor, is impersonating George Smith, a businessman, while romancing Dorothy March, a dancer] 

  Brooks Mason : I'm afraid it wouldn't work. In a few weeks, you'll be going back to the mainland, along with your dancing, your career. I'll be left here with a memory and a few pineapples.

  Dorothy March : We'll work it out some way, darling.

  Brooks Mason : But it would be so much better if I were an actor. Someone in your business. For example, someone like Robert Taylor, or uh... maybe Brooks Mason.

  Dorothy March : No. No, I wouldn't care for Brooks Mason.