Wise Girl (1937)

Miriam Hopkins: Susan Fletcher

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• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I'm going down to Greenwich Village and get those children somehow.

  Mr. Simon Fletcher : But you can't handle this man! Why, he's an artist; he's lived abroad, in Paris, on the Left Bank. You know the kind of thing that goes on on the Left Bank! You haven't had enough experience!

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : You forget I was a senior at Vassar.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I don't think I'd look very Bohemian in these clothes.

  John O'Halloran : Why don't you take them off?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I'm not that Bohemian!

  Dermont O'Neil : Well, we'll soon fix that.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Thank you, Princes. You've made your stay in America a very pleasant one.

  Prince Michael : Thanks to you!

  Prince Ivan : Susan, we have had such a wonderful time. Won't you marry one of us?

  Prince Leopold : Otherwise we will be sad. We Slavs are so sad anyway.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Look, you boys are very nice - and each one of you's pretty neat in his own way. I'm sure you must be hot stuff in the Caucuses. However, just at the moment, I'm not interested in getting married.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Maybe you've all given up; but, I haven't.

  Mr. Simon Fletcher : And what do you suggest?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : A woman. Someone who's clever enough and attractive enough.

  Mr. Simon Fletcher : Where are you going to find someone like that?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Aren't you overlooking me?

• Eccentric Greenwich Village Dancer : Stop! How much do you weigh?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : What? What for?

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Dancer : I need a new partner. Quick, how much do you weigh?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : A hundred and six.

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Dancer : With or without your clothes?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Without.

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Dancer : Too heavy. A cow! Moooo! Moo!

• Prince Michael : Excuse me, Mademoiselle.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Hi ya, babe! You wanna shake a leg with me, huh? Okay, babe.

  [to John and Mike] 

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : You don't mind if he manipulates me spine for a couple of rounds, do ya?

  John O'Halloran : Huh?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Tanks. I'll be back before you can close your mouth.

  [leaves] 

  Mike : Say, does she always give it the Jekyll and Hyde?

• John O'Halloran : What'd you do - threaten to bump him off?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Ah, he was yellow.

• Prince Michael : Excuse me, but, uh, haven't I, I mean, aren't you Susan Fletcher?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Listen, babe, you don't hafta pull that old stuff about haven't we met someplace before. I like you. And I can tell you like me too, don't you?

  [She grabs him] 

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, dontcha?

  Prince Michael : Uh, oh, yes, I...

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Okay That's what I thought. And, say, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll ditch that guy and I'll meetcha outside. Only we gotta be careful. We gotta sneak for it. He's looking. Don't you dance so close to me.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [to Prince Michael, dancing with her]  He's coming. Oh, all I can say, prince is, if you get outta this alive, I'll be worth it.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Why don't you have him arrested?

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : There are no police at the North Pole.

• Dermont O'Neil : Say, you know, the last two girls that wore that dress got married soon afterwards.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Oh, that's all right. I'm not a bit superstitious.

• Prince Michael : [In Mama Guido's cafe]  Uh, excuse me mademoiselle.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Hi ya, babe. You wanna shake a leg with me, huh? Okay, babe.

  [to John and Mike] 

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : You don't mind if we manipulate some spine for a coupla rounds, do ya?

  John O'Halloran : Huh?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Thanks. I'll be back before you can close your mouth.

  Mike : Say, does she always give with the Jekyll and Hyde?

  John O'Halloran : I dunno.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [In the bathtub while people flood into her room to see George who is back]  Would you mind holding your reunion on somebody else's campus?

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [Paying the taxi driver]  You can keep the change.

  Taxi driver : Gee, thanks.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : It's for some driving lessons.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Are you going all the way up there to commit murder?

  Dermont O'Neil : It's the villain in his book. Why don't you poison him?

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : Oh, it's too sweet. I want a long, foul, lingering death for him - the rat.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, uh, why don't you let him freeze to death slowly, starting at his toes. And as his toes begin to drop off one by one, give him a toothache in all his teeth.

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : That's good! Good

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : And, in his delirium, let him dream of a kindly dentist.

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : Tremendous!

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [Dancing with Prince Michael]  That guy's nutty about me. Why, he's pulled a knife twice tonight. If he thought you was tryin' to take me away from him, you'd wake up tomorrow in an alley. Only you wouldn't wake up.

  Prince Michael : Well, maybe I should better leave now.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, I should think a man like that would be able to give the children every advantage.

  John O'Halloran : Didn't you ever read how he's raised his own brat? At least my kids are going to be ladies.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, I don't think I'd look very bohemian in these clothes.

  John O'Halloran : Why don't you take them off?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I'm not that bohemian.

• Mr. Simon Fletcher : Susan, what are you going to do?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, I don't know until I get down there and see what it's all about.

  Mr. Simon Fletcher : Well, whatever you're going to do, I forbid it.

• Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : Ah, he's dead.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : And did he suffer horribly?

  Eccentric Greenwich Village Writer : Oh, beautifully. I stabbed him with a split infinitive.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, don't keep him too long. We've been having a lot of hot weather lately.

• Mr. Simon Fletcher : And what do you suggest?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : A woman. Someone who is clever enough and attractive.

  Mr. Simon Fletcher : Where are you gonna find someone like that?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Aren't you overlooking me?

  Detective : You know, I think she's got something there.

  Detective : Yes, I noticed you noticing it.

• Joan : Do you bite your nails?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : On, no, why?

  Joan : Oh, that's too bad because there's nothing John hates as much as that.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : He oughta be in a lunatic asylum.

  Dermont O'Neil : I tried to put him in there several times but they won't have him. He's too crazy.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Mike, you look kinda tired. Why don't you go upstairs and go to bed?

  Mike : I'm not sleepy.

  John O'Halloran : There used to be some crack about two being company.

  Mike : Just a lotta radical propaganda.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Mike, are you gonna force me to be subtle.

• John O'Halloran : [as Susan duck walks behind a counter, she bumps into John]  Having fun?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I, um, I was duck walking.

  John O'Halloran : What for?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Well, just to see how a duck walks, heh, heh.

  John O'Halloran : Come on, get up.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : I can't.

  [He helps her stand up] 

• Mike : [after Prince Michael flees the café and Susan returns to the table with John]  Was that guy tryin' to get fresh?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : He was on his way - said he was a prince.

• Mike : [Coming to his corner in the boxing ring after the bell rings]  Where's John? Didn't he come back yet?

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : No, he hasn't.

  Mike : Well, somebody's gotta fan me, Susie. Come on, you fan me.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [Fanning Mike]  What's that on your face, Mike?

  Mike : Blood.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Blood?

  [She faints on the edge of the ring] 

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [to two motorcycle cops]  Boys, will you commit a little murder for me tonight?

  Motorcycle Cop #2 : It'll be a pleasure, Miss Fletcher.

  Motorcycle Cop #1 : And what is the nature of this murder?

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Mike, may I kiss you?

  Mike : In front of my public What're you trying to do - soften me up before I get in the ring?

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : You'd better be careful, we're coming into Fletcherville. They have a speed trap there.

  John O'Halloran : I thought you owned Fletcherville.

  Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Only up to 30 miles an hour.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : Katie, your parent has a job.

  Katie : Well, I hope he's able to keep it.

  Joan : I have my doubts.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : [to John, who's behind bars]  Remember - no painty, no eaty.

• Susan 'Susie' Fletcher : What would you say if I said that you were a very sweet person?

  John O'Halloran : I'd say that you'd have to go an awful long way to find a sweeter one.