Merrily We Live (1938)

Constance Bennett: Jerry Kilbourne

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• Jerry Kilbourne : Maybe he didn't have a father.

  Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : Oh darling, everyone has a father, that's one of nature's unwritten laws.

• Mr. Kilbourne : Isn't there any respect at all in this family?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Don't get discouraged, pop. There must be.

• Jerry Kilbourne : [Wade is walking backwards as he leaves Jerry at the door]  Is that the way you always walk?

  Wade Rawlins : Yes. Oh, I don't care where I'm going. I like to see where I've been.

• Jerry Kilbourne : I think a person should have more pride than to allow a total stranger to make love to her on a golf course.

  Wade Rawlins : Oh, well. There weren't many people on the course.

• Jerry Kilbourne : There's no film in the camera.

  Grosvenor - Butler : But, how can you take pictures without film then?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, you can't. I'm just trying it. If I like it, I'll buy some film.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Yes, ma'am.

• Jerry Kilbourne : Pop, if anyone tells you you look good this morning, slug 'em.

• Jerry Kilbourne : Oh... you, Wade Rawlins!

  Wade Rawlins : Well, I think it is.

• Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, I'm just making some fudge.

  Wade Rawlins : With pickles?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, yes. I always make my fudge with pickles.

• Grosvenor - Butler : This time I'm through, and nothing will make me change my mind. Nothing.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [Enters the kitchen]  Going somewhere, Grosvenor?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Why no, Miss Geraldine. The very idea...

• Jerry Kilbourne : What's all this about the silver being gone?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Yes, miss, I'm afraid it's only too true.

  Jerry Kilbourne : Where's Ambrose?

  Grosvenor - Butler : He disappeared with the silver, miss. And he also took my black patent leather shoes.

• Marian Kilbourne : Aren't you going to call the police?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Call the police? Are you crazy? With our luck, they'd find him and bring him back. And besides, what if the newspapers ever got ahold of it?

• Jerry Kilbourne : Call Grosvenor.

  Marian Kilbourne : What'll I call him?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Grosvenor.

  Marian Kilbourne : [Loudly]  Grosvenor!

• Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : Where are you going, darling?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Rawlins is going to drive me to the club.

  Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : Oh, does he drive?

• Jerry Kilbourne : I have a book you ought to read.

  Wade Rawlins : A mystery story?

  Jerry Kilbourne : It will be to you. It's a book on etiquette.

  Wade Rawlins : Oh, it should be amusing. I hope it has pictures. I love pictures.

  [Jerry rolls her eyes] 

• Jerry Kilbourne : Go to the garage and have the bumper fixed. And, uh, pick up father at the station. He arrives at five.

  Wade Rawlins : What's your father like?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Well, let's see. He's um... well, he's very bad-tempered and he hates tramps. For further information, I'd ask mother. She's known him longer.

  Wade Rawlins : Yes, yes, but, uh... well, is he tall, short, wide, narrow?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Well, that depends on how you look at him.

  Wade Rawlins : Miss Kilbourne, how will I know him?

  Jerry Kilbourne : I've already told you. He arrives at five.

  Wade Rawlins : Oh... at five. Yes, of course, that's different.

• Grosvenor - Butler : [Answers the telephone]  Mr. Wheeler, miss.

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, is it? Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor and listens] 

  Herbert Wheeler : [Talking from a lobby phone booth]  Listen you stupid old fraud, who do you think you're kidding?

  Jerry Kilbourne : What did you call me, Herbert?

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Oh, I'm sorry, sweetheart. Listen baby...

  Grosvenor - Butler : I beg your pardon, sir. But I'm neither your sweetheart nor your baby.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Baby! You baby elephant. Will you get off the phone ya big lug?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Why, Herbert, I thought you wanted to talk to me. But if that's the way you feel about it.

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Uh, wait a minute, Jerry.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [Speaking loudly toward the phone that Grosvenor is holding]  Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Hello, this is the Kilbourne estate.

  Herbert Wheeler : Will you please stop monkeying around and let me talk to Miss Kilbourne?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  Herbert Wheeler : Listen, you fathead. I know she's at home. I just talked to her.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Are you going to believe who you talked to or what I tell you? Miss Kilbourne is not at home.

• Mr. Kilbourne : Geraldine, is that the way for your sister to come down to the breakfast table?

  Jerry Kilbourne : No, pop.

  Mr. Kilbourne : Well then, ell her to go upstairs and put some clothes on.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [to Marian]  Go upstairs and put some clothes on.

• Jerry Kilbourne : And that's why we're eating with all these doodads - because he walked off with the kitchen silver too.

• Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : [Walks into the breakfast room and over to two large fish bowls with tropical fish in them]  Good morning, my little fishy-wishies?

  Jerry Kilbourne : [In unison with all the family]  Good morning, mother.

  Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : Oh, good morning, my dears.

• Jerry Kilbourne : If you ask me, and I'm sure you won't, I think Rawlins has great possibilities.

  Mr. Kilbourne : He's nothing but a presumptuous pup, don't you think so, Grosvenor?

  Grosvenor - Butler : I would rather not discuss that person, sir, but since you asked me, I think he's suffering from dementia...

  Jerry Kilbourne : He means he thinks he's nuts.