Primrose Path (1940)

Joel McCrea: Ed Wallace

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• Ed Wallace : Your face and neck's all the same color. Them Portugee girls rouge up a lot.

• Ed Wallace : You know, them portugee gals will laugh at anything.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I ain't a portugee gal.

• Ellie May Adams : Say, don't nothin' ever get a rise out of you?

  Ed Wallace : Not unless I want it to.

• Gramp : If you could get your mind off women for 5 minutes, we might be able to do something around here.

  Ed Wallace : Who wants to get their mind off women?

• Ed Wallace : Looks like I'm going to the hoosegow.

• Ed Wallace : You'd think you'd never been kissed before.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I ain't - not by a fella.

  Ed Wallace : Well, I'm sorry.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I ain't one of them Portugee gals.

  Ed Wallace : Well, I never said you was.

  Ellie May Adams : Maybe you can go around kissin' them any time you like.

  Ed Wallace : Forget it.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I ain't one of them Portugee gals!

• Ellie May Adams : What makes you think I woulda?

  Ed Wallace : I never said you woulda. I said you coulda.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I wouldn'ta.

  Ed Wallace : All right, so you wouldn'ta.

  Ellie May Adams : Maybe them Portugee gals woulda, but not me.

  Ed Wallace : Well, you don't have to get sore.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, I ain't sore. I just wouldn't do nothing like that, that's all.

  Ed Wallace : All right, so you wouldn't do nothing like that.

• Ed Wallace : What's the matter? You scared of gettin' a lickin'?

• Ellie May Adams : Well, come on in. I want to show you some of Pa's things. This is where my Pa does all of his writin'. And everything them Greeks wrote is right in here, you know, philosophy, and he changes it into English.

  Ed Wallace : Boy, that would sure be over my head.

  Ellie May Adams : Well, he's plenty smart.

  Ed Wallace : Yeah. Well, doesn't he ever do nothin' else?

  Honeybell : Yeah, he gets drunk and falls in the ditch at the bottom of the hill.

  Ellie May Adams : Uh, you better run along, Honeybell.

• Ed Wallace : So you're Honeybell, huh?

  Honeybell : Who'd you think I was?

  Ed Wallace : You know, I thought you was two other people.

  Honeybell : Did you bring me a present?

  Ed Wallace : I plum forgot.

  Honeybell : If I knowed that I wouldn't have washed my neck.

• Ed Wallace : I'll get a rise out of you yet.