Night Song (1947)
Merle Oberon: Cathy
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Miss Willey : [after being served the fresh-caught fish] I think I'll fix some hamburger.
Dan : Hamburger?
Chick : You don't like fish?
Cathy : She loves fish.
Miss Willey : Not this particular fish. I can't eat it.
Chick : Now what the matter with this fish? It's good fish.
Dan : I caught it.
Chick : And I cooked it.
Miss Willey : But I met this fish this afternoon. I saw him swimming. He was alive and happy. I was an accessory before the fact of his death.
Chick : She's kidding, of course.
Miss Willey : This morning he had his life before him. Now he's lying on my plate, coated with cracker crumbs. I'm sorry, but I can't eat him.
Chick : How can you eat that potata? It was torn out of the ground, peeled, and boiled before your very eyes.
Dan : What about hamburger?
Chick : Yes, you eat beef, don't you? They slaughter beef.
Miss Willey : I don't witness the execution. I don't spend the afternoon with a cow.
Chick : [Chick contemplates the fish on his fork, and hesitates to eat it]
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Miss Willey : All he ever did was make a million dollars.
Cathy : There are easier things to do. But, not as hard as what he wanted to do. He wanted to create something. He wanted to write music. You don't create a million dollars. You make it or steal it or earn it or - or trap it. Music, you've got to create. Then you've done something. However good or bad it is, it's yours. It means something and its beautiful.
Miss Willey : Like a twenty dollar bill never is. Nobody despises money like rich people.
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Dan : I'll fix the drinks, what'll it be?
Miss Willey : Can we have coffee?
Dan : If you've got to.
Cathy : I'd like some coffee too.
Dan : Okay, I'll fix it.
Miss Willey : No, I'll do it. No man ever made coffee for me and no man ever will. Where's the kitchen?
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Miss Willey : Describe him.
Cathy : Well, I think he was tall. He had dark hair. His face was strong and very sad. He had marvelous fingers.
Miss Willey : What did he think of you?
Cathy : He was blind.
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Miss Willey : What happened with George?
Cathy : Oh, he's an absolute 24 carat idiot.
Miss Willey : About 18 carat, I think.
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Chez Mamie Headwaiter : Table for two?
Cathy : For one.
Chez Mamie Headwaiter : We got a rule here, sister.
Cathy : Really?
Chez Mamie Headwaiter : Against dames sittin' alone.
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Cathy : Aunt Willey, what do you think I ought to do?
Miss Willey : Just what you want to do.
Cathy : Wish you wouldn't be so smug and full of worldly wisdom.
Miss Willey : You're in love. I'm trying to humor you. It's a form of insanity.
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Cathy : [gets up from the piano] Oh, don't be such a wise old ogre. I just can't make it sound as beautiful as it really is.
Miss Willey : I'm your Aunt, which is a blood relationship. I also run this house. I don't want to be a nagging old crone. So, tell me and get it over with.
Cathy : Hold on, darling.
[goes back to play the piano]
Miss Willey : I'm not completely immunized of love's young dream.
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Cathy : I got my piano tuned.
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Cathy : [singing] And I'll be in Scotland afore you, Mmm mmm da da-da will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
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Cathy : What on earth are you trying to do?
Miss Willey : Painting. I thought I might have a small whirl at; after all, I'm supposed to be an artist.
Cathy : What is it supposed to represent?
Miss Willey : You wouldn't dare say that in front of a Picasso. As a matter of fact, I started to paint Dan sitting at the piano and it turned out to be the piano sitting on Dan. No talent at all. No flair.