High Society (1956)

Bing Crosby: C. K. Dexter-Haven

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• Mike Connor : Don't dig that kind of crooning, chum.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : You must be one of the newer fellows.

• Tracy Lord : I'm such an unholy mess of a girl.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh, come on, that's not even good conversation, Tracy.

• Mike Connor : [Dexter is carrying a morning-after-the-night-before drink for Sam]  Is that for me?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : It's for Sam, you want one?

  Mike Connor : You know how I feel about my grandmother but I'd sell her for a drink.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Uncle Willie's in the pantry doing weird and wonderful things with healing waters. Tell him you'd like one of the same.

  Mike Connor : Can I ask for two?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Keep going till you run out of grandmothers.

  Mike Connor : I'll be drinking a long time.

• Mrs. Seth Lord : George told us what happened. Your father will make an announcement.

  Tracy Lord : Oh, thank you. No, no, I got myself into this, I'll get myself out. Ooh.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Go. Go.

  Tracy Lord : [opens the door to address the guests]  Good morning.

  [to the organist] 

  Tracy Lord : Will you stop that racket? Good morning. I'm afraid there's been a slight hitch. My fiancé that was... that is... he's decided we should call it a day and I quite agree with him and... oh Dexter, help me please?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Say "two years ago I did you out of a wedding in this house by eloping to Maryland"

  Tracy Lord : Two years ago I did you out of a wedding in this house by eloping to Maryland.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : "But I hope to make it up to you now by going through with it as originally planned."

  Tracy Lord : But I hope to make it up to you now by...

  [looks at Dexter, he nods and smiles] 

  Tracy Lord : by going through with it as originally and most beautifully planned.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : "So, if you'll just keep your seats a moment."

  Tracy Lord : So, if you'll just keep your lovely seats a moment...

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : "That's all"

  Tracy Lord : That's all.

  [shuts the door] 

  Tracy Lord : Oh Dexter, are you sure?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : No, but I'll risk it if you will.

  Tracy Lord : You're not just doing it to save my face?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : It's such a sweet old face.

• Mike Connor : Didn't you once know a girl named Tracy Samantha Lord?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Yes, I did.

  Mike Connor : No, you didn't! If you did, you wouldn't have let her go!

• George Kittredge : That sounds like Tracy's voice.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : No, no. It's just the night watchman.

  George Kittredge : It's a woman's voice.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well he's a lyric tenor you see.

• Liz Imbrie : Well, since Mike's disappeared too I may as well go home.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well, what about me taking you home, then, everybody come look for us?

  Liz Imbrie : Oh, that's the nicest thing I've heard all night.

• Caroline Lord : Dexter, are you ever going to get married again?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Sure I am, I'm just waiting for you to grow up.

  Caroline Lord : Oh Dexter, for you I'll hurry.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : You're gonna have to.

• Mike Connor : I'm gonna dance.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Don't get hurt.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Liz, you're in love with Connor aren't you?

  Liz Imbrie : People ask the darnedest questions.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Why don't you marry him?

  Liz Imbrie : I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : I said why don't you marry him?

  Liz Imbrie : He's still got a lot to learn. I don't want to get in his way for a while.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Supposing some other girl comes along in the meantime.

  Liz Imbrie : I guess I'd just scratch her eyes out. Unless that is she was marrying someone else the next day.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : You're quite a girl Liz.

  Liz Imbrie : I don't know. I take nice pictures though.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Uncle Willy, this morning you look like a tree full of owls.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [hits Mike, turns to George]  She's not your wife yet and she *was* mine you know.

  [George stalks off, Dexter turns to Mike] 

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Thought I'd better get in first, he's in much better shape.

  Mike Connor : You'll do.

• Caroline Lord : Dexter? This is Caroline.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Hello, beautiful!

  Caroline Lord : Any time now.

• Tracy Lord : One thing's for sure. You're well rid of me.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh, no, no-one can say that but me.

• Mike Connor : Have you heard the story of a boy a girl, unrequited love?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Sounds like pure soap opera.

  Mike Connor : I may cry.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Tune in tomorrow.

• Uncle Willie : I can't find Liz.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : I think I just saw someone wander out on to the terrace. Alone.

  Uncle Willie : You don't say. The little vixen!

  [leaves] 

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Ollie ollie oxen free!

  [Liz comes out of hiding] 

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : What's the matter? Uncle Willie giving you a little trouble?

  Liz Imbrie : That man's gonna wind up a juvenile delinquent mark my words.

• George Kittredge : I have a feeling you had more to do with this than anybody. You and your whole rotten class.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh class my...

  Mike Connor : grandmother!

• Mike Connor : [drunkenly]  If you had really know her, you would've

  [hiccup] 

  Mike Connor : never let her get away. You go hiccups.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Excuse me.

  Mike Connor : It's alright.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  You're my bon ami.

  Mike Connor : Hey, that's French

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Hey, skipper, when do we eat?

  Tracy Lord : Now.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Boy, you've been at it long enough.

  Tracy Lord : It's bride's prerogative.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : It's just I don't like you out of my sight for so long.

  Tracy Lord : That's nice.

• Mrs. Seth Lord : This is Miss Elizabeth Imbrie and Mr Mike Macauley Connor. They're from Spy magazine.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Spy? Say your tastes have changed a little haven't they, Sam?

• Louis Armstrong : You could play football in this room.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : I know, but can you rehearse?

  Louis Armstrong : Is that chandelier tied tight up there?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : If it gets to swinging a little put a mute in your horn.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : You'll find it under Harvard Classics. Just give Darwin a little nudge.

• Tracy Lord : I would like to talk to you privately.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well now, I consider that right neighborly.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : They met in a hole in the ground.

• George Kittredge : This is all your fault! You and your whole rotten class!

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh, class my...

  Mike Connor : ...Grandmother!

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh Sam you're slipping. That used to terrify me, the withering glance of the goddess.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : You can still be a wonderful woman.

  Tracy Lord : I haven't the same high hopes for you.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : I don't wanna be a wonderful woman.

• Tracy Lord : I don't seem to remember last night at all. I must've had too much sun yesterday.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh, yes, the sun will do it every time.

• Tracy Lord : There are fairies are at the bottom of my garden.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Yes, I know.

  Tracy Lord : And they're all ringing little bells.

• Tracy Lord : With your background and taste and intelligence you could have become a serious composer, or a diplomat or anything you wanted to be. And what have you become? A jukebox hero?

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well, is that bad?

• Mike Connor : [singing]  Have you heard that Mimsie Starr

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Oh, what now?

  Mike Connor : She got pinched in the As-tor bar

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Sauced again, eh?

  Mike Connor : She was stoned!

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well, did you evah?

  Mike Connor : Nevah!

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Hi Pops! How's the chops? Good to see you, boy.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : She needs trouble to mature, Kittredge. Give her a lot of it.

  George Kittredge : I'm afraid she can't count on me for that.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : That's a pity. I gave her plenty.

• Uncle Willie : I haven't got a drink.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Well, have some schnapps, Pops.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Gee, I didn't know you wanted a husband who would be kind of a high priest to a virgin goddess.

  Tracy Lord : Oh, stop using those foul words.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven , Tracy Lord : [singing]  For you and I have a guardian angel, On high, with nothing to do, But to give to you and to give to me, Love forever true...

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : You hussy!

  Tracy Lord : [giggles]  You said you'd eat anything.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Tracy, you'd be a wonderful woman if you'd just let your tiara slip a little. But you'll never be a wonderful woman, or even a wonderful human being until you - learn to have some regard for human frailty.

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  You take some skins, Jazz begins, Then you take a bass, Man, now we're, Getting someplace, Take a box, One that rocks, Take a blue horn, New Orleans born, You take a stick, With a lick, Take a bone, Ho ho, hold the phone, Take a spot, Cool and hot, Now you has jazz, jazz, Jazz, jazz, jazz...

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  Why, I've never seen such gaity

  Mike Connor : Neither have I

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Its all just too, too exquis, really

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  From the Equator. Up to the Pole, Everybody winging, Everybody singing, That rock, rock, rock, Rock, rock and roll...

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  What frills, what frocks

  Mike Connor : What broads!

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : What furs, what rock

  Mike Connor : They're beautiful

• Mike Connor , C. K. Dexter-Haven : [singing]  Have you heard, it's in the stars Next July we collide with Mars? Well, did you evah? What a swell party, swell party, Swellegant, elegant party this is!

• C. K. Dexter-Haven : Uncle Willie, what do you say you and I slip into the pantry and have a little toddy for the body, huh?

  Uncle Willie : Medicinal.

• Tracy Lord : Oh, I don't know anything anymore.

  C. K. Dexter-Haven : Now, that sounds hopeful.