True Confession (1937)

Carole Lombard: Helen Bartlett

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• Helen Bartlett : I love to hear you defending a woman's rights.

• Daisy McClure : Helen, if you think you can hold down a job six days a week without Ken knowing it...

  Helen Bartlett : It's five days a week.

  Daisy McClure : Well, all right, five. I still say that...

  Helen Bartlett : And dollars a week and three hours a day. And guess what I am?

  Daisy McClure : No, thanks.

• Helen Bartlett : If you get Tony Krauch acquitted, Mrs. Zimmerman has another cousin, a lady cousin, who wants a divorce! Ken, this is the biggest break you've ever had.

• Daisy McClure : Five days a week, three hours a day, $50 a week. Private secretary to a broker. And you can't even take shorthand.

  Helen Bartlett : Well, I can learn!

  Daisy McClure : Now that's not all you're gonna learn!

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  Helen Bartlett : Mrs. Zimmerman, Tony Krauch. Mr. Zimmerman's wife's cousin Tony Krauch. Tony Krauch. Mrs. Zimmerman's wife's cousin. Mrs. Zimmerman's maiden name is Durphy. And Tony Krauch. Tony Krauch, Mr. Zimmerman's wife's cousin. Meat bill. Meat bill.

• Helen Bartlett : You've got to take the case. You just can't represent people who aren't guilty. You can't afford to.

• Helen Bartlett : If you'd only let me go out and get a job.

  Kenneth Bartlett : I'm taking care of you.

  Helen Bartlett : A lot of wives work - even millionaires' wives.

  Kenneth Bartlett : Oh, but that's different. They work because they're bored and not as a signal to the rest of the worid that their husbands need help. If you went to work, I'd be a confessed failure and I'm not that - yet.

• Helen Bartlett : Do you remember what Ken said last night?

  Daisy McClure : You mean, when the three of us had gone to bed?

• Darsey : You don't love him, see? You never did love him! You don't love nobody. You're that type of a dame!

  Helen Bartlett : Oh, gee.

• Darsey : There he sits! There he sits, the man that you thought loved you, but he don't love you anymore. He just told ya. So you stand, looking at this man- lookin'and hatin' as only a dame can hate.! All of a sudden, out comes your gun and bam!

  Helen Bartlett : Bam! Bam!

  Darsey : Bam. Bam. Uh, Krayler topples off the chair Wham! On the floor, dead as a doughnut. You fly out on the lam.

• Helen Bartlett : All right. Here's the end of everything.

• Helen Bartlett : Look at me, just a poor, trusting working girl, until I meet Otto at a gay house party.

• Helen Bartlett : I think you should be getting something for your money, don't you?

  Otto Krayler : Yes, indeed. You're going to like it here, Helen. And I'm going to like you.

• Helen Bartlett : You know, this is the first time I've felt right since - since...

  Daisy McClure : Since.

  Helen Bartlett : Yeah. Since.

• Tony Krauch : Uh, uh. Uh, Mr. Bartlett, that man of mine...

  Kenneth Bartlett : What about him?

  Tony Krauch : Well, he's took up with some no-good gal in town and spendin' all the money I makes takin' her out Susie-Q'in' and such.

  Helen Bartlett : Oh, that's a shame. Susie-Q'in', huh?

  Tony Krauch : Yes'm. And, uh - uh, Mr. Bartlett, I was wonderin'. Well, speakin' right to the point, if I lets go with a few well-aimed bullets, does you think you can get me off with the law okay?