Julia Misbehaves (1948)

Walter Pidgeon: William Sylvester Packett

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• Fred Ghenoccio : I've been waiting for something like this!

  William Sylvester Packett : What do you mean?

  Fred Ghenoccio : I know you society swells wandering around the passages at night. Sneaking into strange bedrooms.

  William Sylvester Packett : Don't be a fool. Julia's my wife.

  Fred Ghenoccio : She may be your wife, but she's my fiancée!

• William Sylvester Packett : Worry never solved a problem yet! Never trouble trouble, 'til trouble troubles you.

• Fred Ghenoccio : Where's my mother?

  Julia Packett : In the bar, drinking her breakfast. And I hope you fall off your trapeze.

  William Sylvester Packett : Without a net.

• Julia Packett : Oh, William, you've improved! Ohhh, yes, you've lost that gangly look.

  William Sylvester Packett : Oh, well, I didn't know I ever had it.

  Julia Packett : Oh, not any more. Hmm, distinguished. Quite handsome. Very dangerous.

  William Sylvester Packett : My, dear Julia, you're being most, eh...

  Julia Packett : Well, aren't you going to tell me how I look?

• William Sylvester Packett : Look here, Ritchie, when I engaged you to paint these murals, you had definite instructions. You made some changes.

  Ritchie Lorgan : Well, for the better, I hope so. What do you think of this one, sir: Agamemnon beating Psyche at table tennis?

• Mrs. Packett : William, don't be seen in public with her. You might meet some of our friends.

  William Sylvester Packett : Mother, she's no longer a 17-year old chorus girl. She won't turn up in tights.

• William Sylvester Packett : Happy hunting, Bunny!

• William Sylvester Packett : After all these years, how am I going to explain to my friends the sudden appearance of a wife?

  Julia Packett : Don't tell them I'm your wife.

  William Sylvester Packett : What?

  Julia Packett : Tell them you picked me up in Paris in a bar... in a good bar. I was waiting tables and I was a Maharaja.

  William Sylvester Packett : Oh, be reasonable.

  Julia Packett : Oh, very well, then it was a cheap bar.

• Julia Packett : I was very happy, William. You came to me and said, "Julia, I don't love you anymore. I think it's better if we separated." After all, William, that's the truth. Nobody has to be ashamed of the truth.

  William Sylvester Packett : That's very cruel.

  Julia Packett : I thought so when you said it. But you wanted to get rid of me, so I went. But this time I'm staying until after the wedding.

• Fred Ghenoccio : That's the spirit. No use crying over spilled milk.

  William Sylvester Packett : No, and it's a poor heart that never rejoices.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Well, I must say, you're taking it very well.

  William Sylvester Packett : After all, he travels fastest who travels alone. To say nothing of a stitch in time saves nine.

  Julia Packett : Well, what's that got to do with it?

  William Sylvester Packett : Nothing. It just occurred to me.

• William Sylvester Packett : Julia can explain everything. Come on and sit down and tell 'em dear.

  Julia Packett : Well, of course.

  William Sylvester Packett : Come on.

  Julia Packett : You know, sometimes the uh, the most complicated thing has the... the simplest explanation, and then after the explanation, why the complicated thing becomes a very simple thing.

  William Sylvester Packett : Yeah, yeah, sure. I told you she could explain it.

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Yeah, a little clearer explanation'd be most welcome to me.

• Fred Ghenoccio : You mean you didn't know her and you talked to her?

  Julia Packett : Well he talked to me just as much as I did to him.

  William Sylvester Packett : Don't be stuffy, Fred. She talks to strange men all over the world.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Well, I don't like it and I never will.

  Julia Packett : Oh, Freddy, in a casino everybody talks to everybody else.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Casino? You were gamblin'?

  Julia Packett : Oh, well, just a few francs. You couldn't exactly call it gambling.

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Yes, and after she'd lost every franc of her own...

  Fred Ghenoccio : Lost ever franc?

  William Sylvester Packett : She loves roulette, Fred. Now, if she ever gets blue, give her a few thousand francs and send her off to the nearest casino. It's, uh, better than a new hat.

• Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Yes, yes. Well, I'm not concerned with your financial arrangements, but mine.

  Julia Packett : Leave me your address and I'll send you the money you gave me.

  Fred Ghenoccio : You took money from a strange man?

  Julia Packett : Not... not a... not exactly.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Well, you either took money or you didn't.

  William Sylvester Packett : Freddy, think nothing of it. To Julia, money's of no importance. As fast as she gets it, she tosses it away. That's her charm.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Well, it don't charm me.

• William Sylvester Packett : I'm sure, sir, she would have repaid you immediately; but, well, she probably lost it just as fast as you gave it to her.

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : But I didn't give her money in the casino. I gave it to her in the lingerie shop.

  Fred Ghenoccio : The lingerie shop? What were you doing in a lingerie shop?

  Julia Packett : Freddy, I'll explain all of this to you later.

  William Sylvester Packett : If you will just give her time enough, Julia can explain anything.

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Yes, well, it's taken me two days to find her and hear her explanation now.

• William Sylvester Packett : Oh, I don't believe a word of it. As well as I know Julia, I still do not believe a word of it.

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Well, I've got a hundred witnesses who saw her flirt with me in the casino, pick me up in the bar, lure me into a lingerie shop, and then sneak out the back entrance.

  William Sylvester Packett : You cad!

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : What, sir?

• Julia Packett : You make it sound perfectly horrible, and certainly, if I'd known you were going to act like this, I wouldn't have spoken to you in the first place.

  William Sylvester Packett : There, there, now dear. You let me handle this.

• William Sylvester Packett : Are you sure you didn't say something or suggest something that might have offended her?

  Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook : Suggest something? When she told me she got nowhere to sleep, I offered her my hotel suite.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Your hotel suite?

  Julia Packett : I wasn't going there, Freddy. That's why I was going out the back door.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Suppose there had been no back door?

  William Sylvester Packett : Freddy, all shops have a back door.

• William Sylvester Packett : Well, if you've a nasty, suspicious nature and suspect everything she does, then all I can say is she's too good for you. If you can't appreciate a woman as wonderful as Julia, then I think the best thing for you to do is... well, I think you better get out of here right away.

  Julia Packett : Will you let me handle this? Fred... if... if you... uh, uh... oh get out of here right away.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Gladly. You'll never see me again. And I was going to make a Ghenoccio out of you... huh!

• Julia Packett : I couldn't even have come out here for the wedding if I hadn't been given the money by a very dear gentleman friend of mine in London.

  Fred Ghenoccio : Another man? In London. All over the world you've got men.

  William Sylvester Packett : That's a shocking way to talk to Julia. Have you no confidence? No faith?

  Fred Ghenoccio : Where there's smoke, there's fire.