It's a Date (1940)

Walter Pidgeon: John Arlen

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• John Arlen : Oh have a heart, lady. How'd I know you were gonna turn out like this?

  Georgia Drake : You expected an old, fat dimwit, didn't you?

  John Arlen : Georgia, huh, at my age, but, when a man has just so long, and... ..

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• Captain Andrew : [after Pamela had told an annoying young man that the captain was her father]  How's my daughter?

  John Arlen : She's got quite an imagination. She not only imagined a proposal out of me, but she turned me down.

• Georgia Drake : Your friends - one sends a message that he's broken his leg. The last fellow says he shot himself.

  John Arlen : Now, Georgia, I explained that.

• Pamela Drake : [Rehearsing on the ship's top deck]  A woman's love is like a cocoon.

  John Arlen : [to Captain Andrew]  She's a cocoon again.

• Georgia Drake : Don't tell me - let me guess. Your house is on fire. That means that you sent a message to yourself, to eat breakfast tomorrow.

  John Arlen : No, it's really on fire. I did it myself to collect the insurance.

• John Arlen : She even wanted to pay for my fare.

  Captain Andrew : How did you get out of that?

  John Arlen : Well, I sort of hinted I'm wanted by the police. She hinted it, as a matter of fact. I just dropped my eyes.

• John Arlen : [after two days in and out of a lifeboat under cover]  I can't shave. This shirt's beginning to crawl. I haven't got any skin left on my knees from climbing into that lifeboat.

• John Arlen : Do you know, she's got it all worked out how I'm gonna get of this boat - in her clothes.

  Captain Andrew : Oh, I can't wait to see that.

  John Arlen : Oh, you can't, huh?

• John Arlen : And will you tell me where she gets it all?

  Captain Andrew : She bribes the steward - says she has a tape worm.

• Captain Andrew : How about a little chess now?

  John Arlen : You must owe me a couple million now, as it is, don't you?

  Captain Andrew : Oh, it's one million, eight hundred thousand. But I've been reading up on this. Just you watch yourself.

  John Arlen : So, you've learned to read, have you?

• Pamela Drake : [after jumping in the ocean, and John jumping after her]  I think what you've done, exposing yourself because you thought I was in danger, is the finest, most unselfish thing I've ever heard of.

  John Arlen : Yeah.

• John Arlen : When kids that age get a cross-up in love, they never think of going on a drunk or looking for somebody else. You get that smart when you get older. You can walk down to the river and look at it all night. Some of them jump if they're hurt bad enough.

  Captain Andrew : She looks like the jumping kind, too.

• Captain Andrew : [after fishing Pamela and John out of the drink]  Well, I'm not sorry that it happened.

  John Arlen : Oh, so you're not sorry?

  Captain Andrew : No. She's a wonderful person, that girl, to have done what she did.

• John Arlen : A toast to little me, and the future. John my boy, mind your own business, and never forget you're much too old to be a Boy Scout.

• John Arlen : She has quite an imagination.

  Captain Andrew : Mmm. Of course, you haven't helped her at all.

• Sara Frankenstein : You wouldn't want any advice from grandma, would you?

  John Arlen : Oh, grandma, shoot. What is it?

  Sara Frankenstein : A little more attention to Georgia.

  John Arlen : Uh, huh.

  Sara Frankenstein : Georgia! Not Pam.

  John Arlen : You don't think I'd be pressing it a bit?

  Sara Frankenstein : My dear, when it comes to a woman, a man can't press too much. That's inside information

  John Arlen : You think so?

• John Arlen : Sara, I'm a desperate man.

  Sara Frankenstein : Go on.

  John Arlen : I never proposed to a woman before. Whatta ya do?

  Sara Frankenstein : I never did either.

  John Arlen : What's the best tact? Do you throw it off as sort of a joke? Or, uh, do you talk seriously? You know, uh, heart to heart.

  Sara Frankenstein : I would say according to whom you're proposing.

• Governor Allen : Stop complaining, John. Miss Drake is going to sing.

  Georgia Drake : I'd consider it an honor.

  John Arlen : You haven't even got the right Miss Drake. I said Miss Pamela Drake.

  Governor Allen : I just took it for granted you meant Miss Georgia Drake.

  John Arlen : All right. Now, will you please ask Miss Pamela Drake to sing?

  Governor Allen : Come on, Pamela, he's crazy.

• John Arlen : Uh, Georgia, I've been trying to get you alone for days, and , uh, well, this whole singing deal was arranged so I could take to you without Pam around.

• Georgia Drake : And he can't lose a whole evening of his life just watching someone make noise with soup.

  John Arlen : Oh, now you're exaggerating. I knew that you weren't going to make noises with your soup.

  Georgia Drake : What course did you expect to get away on? After the fish wasn't it?

  John Arlen : No, no. I was gonna last all through dinner. I swear.

  Georgia Drake : Coffee and everything? Oh, that was too much.

• John Arlen : This business of going over it ahead of time - why you get chills all over. I don't even talk glibly anymore. I go over this thing at home and I've got it down fine, and then when I met her, I tumble all around.

• John Arlen : Governor, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Ober, Governor Allen. We're going to be married.

  Governor Allen : The four of you?

  John Arlen : No!

  Governor Allen : Wonderful, my boy. Lil and I had about given you up. Congratulations.

• Headwaiter : The fire brigade just telephoned. Your house is on fire.

  John Arlen : Uh, uh, thank you, Oscar.

  Headwaiter : It's burning now, you better go right over.

  John Arlen : Thank you very much, Oscar. Goodbye.

  Headwaiter : I did my best.

• John Arlen : I've been considering writing it out and mailing it with a self-addressed tamped envelope.

  Sara Frankenstein : Is it a younger woman, or someone nearer your own age?

  John Arlen : No, that would be cowardly. A woman wouldn't like that.

  Sara Frankenstein : If you'd only give me a hint.

  John Arlen : The thing to do is to say what comes in your mind at the moment. I know that.

  Sara Frankenstein : Well, is it somebody I know?

• Georgia Drake : I'd like a few years of just being married. Really married.

  John Arlen : A few years?

  Georgia Drake : Well, uh, a few years for a honeymoon. You wouldn't mind if I went back to the theater sometime, would you?

• Sara Frankenstein : I'm not bothering you by talking through your lines, am I?

  John Arlen : Sara, what's your opinion, honestly?

  Sara Frankenstein : You're more desperate than I thought.

• Pamela Drake : Well, it's about my mother.

  John Arlen : I see.

  Pamela Drake : Will you take us to dinner tonight?

  John Arlen : Haven't you got anything to eat?

  Pamela Drake : Oh, no, it isn't that. I have to have her out of the house at eight o'clock.

• John Arlen : I thought that I might take Pam out tonight and...

  Sara Frankenstein : Pam?

  John Arlen : Yes, why?

  Sara Frankenstein : Oh, no, nothing.

  John Arlen : You see, I thought if I took Pam out I could get her to ask Georgia for me, because they're pretty close, you know.

  Sara Frankenstein : Georgia?

  John Arlen : Say, what's the matter with you?

  Sara Frankenstein : Nothing. Eh heh, that'll be fine.

• John Arlen : Why didn't you tell me your mother was Georgia Drake?

  Pamela Drake : Well, you never asked me. And every time people find it out, they quit talking about me and wanna know all about mother. So, I try to hide it.