Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Ginger Rogers: Kathie O'Hara, Katherine Butt-Smith, Baroness Katherine Von Luber

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• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : [after seeing the Feuhrer from his hotel balcony, he goes to the bedroom door]  Hey! Hitler is here!

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : [Unimpressed from behind the door]  Well I can't see him now. I'm dressing.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Life is what you make it. Life can be bright and beautiful, sunshine and daffodils. I agree with Browning. Robert Browning.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Oh, thank you.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : "The lark's on the wing. The snail's on the thorn. God's in His heaven. All's right with the world."

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Well, that is a truly remarkable bit of philosophy, Baroness. Coming at a time like this when the whole world's going behind a cloud.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Ah, you're just cynical. You've probably been reading Schopenhauer. He's a very cynical man. Very sad man.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Very cynical. You know, I don't have to read Schopenhauer to know that the whole human race is messing it up. Its just like you, Baroness. You messed it up something awful.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I think not. I believe: This above all, to thine own self, be true. And it must follow, the night, the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yeah, well, that's more like it. Now we're getting somewhere. Hold still a moment, listen to this: Don't wait too long building castles in the sky. Or, while you're waiting, time will fly. Love songs are best when they're sung - in the Springtime, when everything's young. So, don't wait too long - or happiness may pass you by. Irving Berlin.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You mean it's up to Hitler who can have babies and who can't?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yes. It used to be the will of God. Hitler doesn't like that. Too many people might be born who wouldn't agree with him.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : It would make better sense if his mother'd thought of it.

• Baron Franz Von Luber : [Referring to Katie's objections to pre-marital sex]  My dear, I'm fully aware of the American mania for respectability.

  Baron Franz Von Luber : [He takes two tickets out of his inside pocket]  Separate compartments.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Separate compartments?

  Baron Franz Von Luber : Mmm-hmmm.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I might insist on separate trains.

  Baron Franz Von Luber : That might be overdoing it.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : I even found myself the other night trying to write some poetry. That should give you some idea.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Did you do it?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Oh, yes. I did it. Well, it's not so good. The thoughts not bad, though.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Well, how does it go?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Here you read it. Well, it just proves one thing: the man's in love.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : [reading]  'Let's make our love song one that will live / Let's make it one to forget and forgive / As life's shadows lengthen over the years / our love will strengthen through laughter and tears / I will know your thoughts / You will know mine / Without ever a word / Without ever a sign / We will know what is deep in each other's heart / We will know, for it must be, till death do us part.'

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Hi, Duke.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Baroness.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Liebling, promise me you won't try to save any more countries.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : I've got work to do. You know, I've been getting my war news by following your honeymoon trail. Tell me, where did the Baron plan on taking you from here?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : To Norway. Where we'd be houseguests of the Quislings. Did you ever hear of them?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : No. But, I probably will.

• Gaston Le Blanc : Now do you believe I'm on the square?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Yeah. Yeah, but, bein' on the square today, brother, ain't what it used to be. You see, you're jabber don't jive.

  Gaston Le Blanc : Jive?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Cause if you're on the square, you like the bear. And the bear's nowhere. But, it won't take long to reet pleat you with a zoot suit and stiff cuff and get you back on the beam. Why in no time at 'll, you'll be cookin' with helium.

  Gaston Le Blanc : Huh?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Well, don't that make you hep? Ain't you plugged in or am I just beatin' my gums?

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I can't wait to get back and see that lady. You know, that lady that stands out there in the harbor.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : You're looking at a contented man.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Why?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Well, you have to go back a long way to explain that. Yeah, I'd have to go back to when destiny threw us together. I was attracted, but, so differently. I was attracted more or less by, eh...

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : By, eh, my measurements?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : That's the idea. That's it. Yes, yes. You were lovely of form and face. But, I had the feeling that if a gnat dove into your pool of knowledge, he'd a broken his neck. But, then I found out there was more to you.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : What's come over you?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Me? Well, I'm a changed man. I actually find myself now with a silly thing called ambition. And I could swear it was for you. I want to do things.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : And you will too.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : But I still don't see how a lovely creature with your possibilities could a...

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You're a newspaperman?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yeah.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Why?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : That's what I wanted to be.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : It's that simple. Goodbye.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Now, just a moment. One last look. I want to always remember you, just the way you look tonight - today. Beautiful, isn't she, Elsa?

  Elsa : Yes, she is. And you are beautiful, too.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Go some place where it's safe.

  Anna : Where?

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : You know, Baroness, the more I think of it, the more ungentlemanly it was, was it?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : What?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Getting you tight!

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I'm all right. Shall we have another?

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I told you that you might make yourself at home, but, I didn't say you could take a bath.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yeah, but, that hot water was so refreshing.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : I was dreaming about you.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You were?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : A beautiful dream. Your last name - O'Hara? Right?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Right. O'Toole. O'Hara.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : O - O.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Uh, oh.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I certainly can't stay here. He'll have the whole Gestapo looking for me.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Oh, we'll put a stop to that. Look, Ed, why can't you put her name on a casualty list? Then he won't have any reason to look for her.

  Ed Cumberland : Yeah. Yeah, we could do that.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Good.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You mean: the Baroness is dead?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yeah. Long live O'Hara.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I heard you in that huddle with the Nazis.

  Gaston Le Blanc : Yes. They are members of the Gestapo. But, I...

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : What does that make you, brother? You were awful pally-wally with 'em, giving out with that spy stuff.

  Gaston Le Blanc : Well, I have to keep in their confidence.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Oh, you do, huh?

  Gaston Le Blanc : I'm afraid I'm losing yours.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You're darn tootin'.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : I got you a few things too.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Ah, you shouldn't have done that Mr. O.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Oh, that's me, scattering sunshine as I go along.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : [Talking on a trans-Atlantic phone connection]  I'm gonna be married, Mama. Gee, I wish you were here. I always imagined you'd be at my wedding, Mama.

  Katie's Mother : [Suspiciously]  Is this a hasty marriage, Katie? What's the hurry?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Well, he comes from a long line of wealthy Austrian people, Mama, and they're all dead.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : [to the Baron as the German ambassador and his attache come in]  Darling, I wouldn't trust those two swastikas any farther than you could throw Göring.

  Baron Franz Von Luber : Please, darling, both of these gentlemen speak English.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : [regarding her waist measurement]  It's 24. It's been 24 for a long time.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Lucky girl.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Do you always take this much interest in your - eh - stories?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : No, this is different.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : You weren't ever in show business by any chance, where you?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Do you mean - the theater?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yes, the 'theater'. Yes - I - isn't that that funny? I saw a girl in a show just off broadway. She did one of those: one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two three. Zip! It couldn't have been you, could it?

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Hello, Zypsy. Zypsy.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : What Zypsy?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Zypsy? Well, that's the girl I was telling you about in the show off Broadway. Zypsy. What was the last name? Hmm? Hmm?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : You're quite determined, aren't you, Mr. O'Toole? You're rather intoxicated.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Oh! You too are tipsy, Zypsy.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : He is what is known as an international termite.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Yes, I know. You said that before.

• Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Do go on, Mr. O'Toole. I think I can still be - curious.

• Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Don't you want a little snifter? A little snort?

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Oh, do you mean a drink?

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yes.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Yes, I do believe I could have a little something. What's that gentleman drinking over there?

  Warsaw Waiter Serving Vodka : Vodka, madam.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : It looks exactly like water.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Yes, well, you see, vodka is the Polish name for water.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : Oh, of course. I haven't mastered Polish.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Well, just bring me a plain glass of vodka.

  Katie O'Hara Von Luber, aka Katherine Butt-Smith : I believe I shall have a little something in mine. Perhaps a jigger of brandy and plain vodka.

  Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole : Bring me the same. I'd like to try that.