The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Stanley Ridges: Kenneth Hanline

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• Kenneth Hanline : Liza, I'd do anything for you. I'll sign notes for you. I'll defraud managers for you. I'll even steal babies. I'll do anything, but I will not marry you.

• Buddy : Oh, stop schmoozing over that kid and tell us where you got it.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I took her.

  Buddy : Ken!

  Kenneth Hanline : You mean you kidnapped here?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh, Ken, you've got an obscene mind - and you're a bad influence. Buddy, when the manager gets here remind me to tell him to try to find some workmen to remove that bar right away. It's no atmosphere for a growing child.

  Kenneth Hanline : Well, keep her from growing up for just a few minutes will you? I've got to get in shape to save you from the Lindberg law.

• Buddy : Corey? Isn't there somebody in the building by that name?

  Kenneth Hanline : You're thinking of what I'm going to commit to keep us all out of jail - hari-kari.

• Kenneth Hanline : Call him catastrophe.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh no, that's much too long.

• Kenneth Hanline : You make lots of money - yes. You have lots of money - no. You give it away to that crummy list of pensioners.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : All right, then go and get me some more.

• Kenneth Hanline : Listen, Liza - tall, handsome Baptiste'll be passing you gumdrops through the bars of Sing Sing if you don't take my advice and let me smuggle the little s----, uh, let me sneak him to a police station some night and then run like everything.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Ken.

  Kenneth Hanline : Well, what is it?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : At least you might hide that bottle of G - I - N.

• Buddy : Look, we can cut Uncle Charles to 50.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Berate Uncle Charles? Oh, no, no. I couldn't.

  Buddy : Well, what does he do but run up and down Miami Beach pinching girls? That shouldn't be so expensive.

  Kenneth Hanline : Probably costs him a lot just to keep in condition.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Ken?

  Kenneth Hanline : Huh? Oh, no, no, Liza. Please, please -- not me.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Why not? You are handy and I can manage you.

  Kenneth Hanline : I know, but look, look. Lisa, I'll do anything for you. I'll sign notes for you. I'll defraud managers for you. I'll even steal babies. I'll do anything, but I will not marry you.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I don't see why I'm not solvent.

  Kenneth Hanline : Because you have more debts than a college sophomore.

  Buddy : Because of all the money to these leeches.

  Kenneth Hanline : Being solvent means hard cash in the bank - not a swell apartment with a lot of expensive furniture. And the law says you either have to be solvent or married.

• Buddy : We can't make you solvent if you keep on sending money to all these leeches. Now, look, there's Stevenson. Now he's had the same bad idea for the same bad play every day for the last five years.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : But he has talent, and one day he might write a great play. This money keeps him going.

  Kenneth Hanline : Yes, from bar to bar.