In Person (1935)

George Brent: Emory Muir

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• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Now you're trying to bully me. What about that grade A milk of human kindness?

  Emory Muir : Well, it has been known to sour.

• Emory Muir : [to Minnie]  Well, do we look like the kind of people who might be up to monkeyshines?

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Do you know who I am?

  Emory Muir : Eh, somebody Colfax or something.

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I am Carol Corliss.

  Emory Muir : Carol Corliss...

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : So, you don't believe I'm Carol Corliss?

  Emory Muir : Certainly. I'd believe you were Charlie Chaplin if you wanted me to.

• Parson Calverton Lunk : I now pronounce you man and wife.

  Emory Muir : Well, legally, you're Mrs. Emory Muir.

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : How does it feel being Mr. Carol Corliss?

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : You've got the meanest look I've ever seen in a human eye.

  Emory Muir : Any yellow in it?

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : You're kind, aren't you?

  Emory Muir : Oh, sure. I'm top bottle, grade A milk of human kindness.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Please take me with you. I was listening. It sounds like a heavenly place. And you could catch butterflies all day long...

  Emory Muir : Birds. Birds! I'm an amateur ornithologist.

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Oh, well, then you could ornithologize all day long and I could catch butterflies.

• Emory Muir : Why? When there are 37 million other young men in this country, you insist on picking me out?

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Well, because I don't know who else I could get.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I suppose you're the kind of person who pretends he doesn't like moving pictures.

  Emory Muir : Well, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.

• Emory Muir : To me, movie stars are just so many mechanical dolls. But, you give me a Mickey Mouse, and you can take your Carol and all the rest of the tootsie wootsies.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : [disguised as Clara Colfax]  I think Carol Corliss is very beautiful and very talented.

  Emory Muir : She's probably a little squirt!

• Emory Muir : Do you think you can undress yourself?

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I'm quite precocious, thank you. I can do it myself.

• Emory Muir : Did you ever have your pretty face slapped?

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Oh, so you think it's pretty!

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I made A+ in domestic science all through college! And I won every cooking prize at summer camp.

  Emory Muir : Did you get any medals for washing dishes? Of do you want some skill to help?

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I wouldn't let you near a dish of mine. Not if you begged me on your knees.

• Emory Muir : Now, listen, it's obvious that if you were she, you wouldn't be here; because, she's there.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Will you tell this pugilist that I am Carol Corliss.

  Jay Holmes : Why, of course, she is.

  Emory Muir : Oh and I suppose if she's Carol Corliss, you're Jay Holmes.

  Jay Holmes : Well, of course I am.

  Emory Muir : Well, you're both screwy.

• Emory Muir : I'm a nerve doctor. A psychiatrist. Do you know anything about psychiatry?

  Jay Holmes : [shakes head no]  Except that it's expensive.

• Emory Muir : Now, we know that Miss Corliss is in a...

  Jay Holmes : Emotionally unstable state. I know.

  Emory Muir : How did you know?

  Jay Holmes : She always is.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Why you scrub! Why did you keep pretending?

  Emory Muir : Ah, I was afraid you might leave.

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : And you didn't want me to?

  Emory Muir : Not particularly. - I would have had to do all the work.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Oh, it's a great thrill being a moving picture star!

  Emory Muir : The great American myth!

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : I like being a myth.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : What are you so snappish about?

  Emory Muir : Snappish? Huh! Miss Carol Corliss makes a personal appearance. She laughs gaily to the crowd. She waves to the crowd. Everything she does is to the crowd! All her emotions belong to the crowd!

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : But, Emory, that's my business.

  Emory Muir : Business - baloney! You're public property!

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Well, I am in a way.

• Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Is this a proposal?

  Emory Muir : Well, it's a proposition.

• Emory Muir : What a spot to be in.

  Carol Corliss, aka Clara Colfax : Well, don't think I'm enjoying it.

  Jay Holmes : Well, if you both showed a little horse sense, this wouldn't have happened.

  Emory Muir : Don't be an ass!