Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Jean Harlow: Lil Andrews

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Quotes 

• Lil Andrews : [trying on a dress in a store, Lil positions herself in front of a sunny window]  Can you see through this?

  Store Clerk : I'm afraid you can, Miss.

  Lil Andrews : I'll wear it.

  Store Clerk : Oh!

• Lil Andrews : Listen, Sally, I made up my mind a long time ago, I'm not gonna spend my whole life on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.

  Sally : Well, I hope you don't get hit by a train while you're crossing over.

• Lil Andrews : Well you son-of-a-sea-snake! Have you got on my new pajamas?

  [Sally hesitates guiltily] 

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, well you shake right out of 'em, Hortence.

  Sally : [annoyed]  Alright!

  Lil Andrews : I'm too important these days to sleep informally.

  [removes her blouse] 

  Lil Andrews : What if there'd be a fire?

  Sally : You'd have to cover up to keep from being recognized.

  [camera pans down to Lil's legs as Sally hands her the silk pajama pants] 

  Lil Andrews : [climbing into the pajamas]  Say love, let's have a little more respect from you, now that I belong to one of the fine old families...

  Sally : Oh, yeah? If I were you I'd go a little bit slow.

  Lil Andrews : Whaddyou mean by that?

  Sally : Well, Bill Legendre and his wife might get together and decide that you were merely a strange interlude.

  Lil Andrews : Strange interlude, nothing! When I kiss 'em, they stay kissed for a long time.

  Sally : Well, see you don't get left holdin' the bag, sweetheart, full of nothin' but air. You better hang on to that bootlegger of yours.

  Lil Andrews : [incredulous]  What? Go on with Al after Bill Legendre? Oh no, I've started on the upgrade, and whatever happens, baby, I'm in the big leagues now.

• Lil Andrews : Sally, I'm the happiest girl in the world. I'm in love and I'm gonna be married.

  Sally : You're gonna marry Albert?

  Lil Andrews : No, Gaerste.

  Sally : In love with Gaerste?

  Lil Andrews : No, Albert. Besides, I always did wanna learn French.

  Sally : Oh, why don't you get yourself a laundryman and learn Chinese?

• Sally : You dropped your fur.

  Lil Andrews : Oh, it's only a silver fox.

  Sally : Couldn't you get a gold one?

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, well, I might have this one plated!

• [first lines] 

  Lil Andrews : So gentlemen prefer blondes, do they?

  [sarcastically] 

  Lil Andrews : Yes, they do.

• Thomas - Legendre Butler : This way, madame!

  Lil Andrews : I don't need a guide - and - don't call me madame!

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Give me that key. Give me that key!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : You're afraid. You're afraid of yourself because you know you love me!

  Lil Andrews : Oh, am I?

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, you're afraid you're going to take me in your arms. You're afraid you're gonna kiss me!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Is that so?

  Lil Andrews : Oh, why don't you do it?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Keep away from me, I'm warning you.

  Lil Andrews : Why don't you do it!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Keep away from me!

  Lil Andrews : You don't dare stay here! You don't trust yourself!

  [Bill slaps Lil across the face] 

  Lil Andrews : Oh! Do it again! I like it! Do it again!

  [Lil throws her arms around Bill. He wrestles with her and beats her. Lil lies whimpering on the floor] 

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Are you all right Red?

  [Bill picks her up, lays her down on the bed and walks back to the door, still finds it locked] 

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Will you please give me that key?

  [still whimpering, Lil places the key down her cleavage] 

• Lil Andrews : I suppose I'm just a cross-eyed, half-witted, hunchback, crippled!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Well, you'd get off much better with Gaerste if you were.

  Lil Andrews : What do you mean?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Darling, he's a narrow-minded, straight-laced, old do-do.

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, well, he's a man, isn't he?

• Lil Andrews : Listen, I'm on my way up to the boss' house with his mail.

  Sally : Why didn't his secretary do it?

  Lil Andrews : Because I swiped it off her desk. These are important and they've gotta be answered right away. Maybe I'll get a chance to stay and take dictation.

  Sally : What'll that get ya?

  Lil Andrews : Don't be dumb! His wife's in Cleveland!

  Sally : Say, Bill Legendre's crazy about his wife.

  Lil Andrews : Well, he's a man isn't he?

• Sally : You got all the furniture you need?

  Lil Andrews : Well, I still have a few Louis XV tables to get, and a couple of Jacobean bedsteads, and an English highboy...

  Sally : A what?

  Lil Andrews : A highboy.

  Sally : Say, I thought you were gonna be on the level, now that you're married!

• Lil Andrews : The boss' picture.

  [slips it in a tiny frame on her garter, just above her knee] 

  Lil Andrews : Well, it get me more there than it will hanging on the wall.

• Lil Andrews : Gee, I'm beginning to get a little nervous.

  Sally : I'd be nervous myself if I didn't have any more brains than you've got.

• Lil Andrews : Mr. Legendre, is there something the matter with me?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Something the matter with you? Why no! Why do you ask?

  Lil Andrews : Well, you always avoid me at the office and whenever I want to help you - you send me away and get somebody else.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : [laughs]  Well, I'll tell you the trouble, Red. You're, eh, you're too pretty and I don't trust myself.

  Lil Andrews : Oh, Mr. Legendre, do you honestly think I'm pretty?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Yes. Too darn pretty, altogether.

• Lil Andrews : These months in the office have been wonderful. Why, gee, I can remember every word you've spoken to me. Every look.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Great scott, have you been mooning around all this time with that nonsense in your mind?

• Lil Andrews : Listen to me, I'm on your mind just as much as your on mine.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : What do you mean?

  Lil Andrews : Why, when we're at the office - and you send for me to take a letter, do you know what happens?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : No.

  Lil Andrews : Before you even begin, you look me over - all over.

• Lil Andrews : And there we were like an uncensored movie, when in walks Mrs. William Legendre, Jr. and catches us! Right in the old family parlor!

  Sally : Oh, you dirty little homewrecker!

• Lil Andrews : A girl's a fool that doesn't get a head. Say, it's just as easy to hook a rich man as it is to get hooked by a poor one.

• Lil Andrews : So, if she wants to leave the barn door wide open, what's to keep a girl from going in.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Red, we've got to snap out of it, both of us!

  Lil Andrews : But, why? We can see each other. You can come to my place anytime!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : No, I won't do that.

  Lil Andrews : Nobody will ever know about it! Please!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : I won't, Red.

  Lil Andrews : Listen, tomorrow night, say you'll come tomorrow night. Listen, ten o'clock... Alright then, say you'll come. Say it!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Alright, I'll come.

• Lil Andrews : Somethin' happened.

  Sally : Well, what now?

  Lil Andrews : Bill made up with his wife.

  Sally : How'd you find that out, Mrs. Winchell?

• Lil Andrews : You can't lead me on like that! Make dates with me and break 'em and not even explain! We're in each others blood! There isn't anything on earth that's gonna stop us! Not anything on earth! And you know it!

• Sally : [lying down, eating a banana]  Well, did you see him?

  Lil Andrews : [lighting up a cigarette]  Yes, I saw him!

  Sally : How'd you come out?

  Lil Andrews : The same way I went in. What'd you think?

  Sally : Thought you might come out on your - rear.

• Lil Andrews : Oh, no Bill. Don't make me go! I love you so! If you knew how much I loved you.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Love? Why don't you call it by it's right name?

  Lil Andrews : Let me stay. I'll do everything you tell me to do. I'll be just what you want me to be.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : There's only one thing you could be. You've only got one filthy idea in your whole rotten make up.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Rene, if you ever need a friend, you'll - you'll call on me, won't you

  Irene : Why, of course, Bill. And you can call on me, too, for anything.

  Lil Andrews : Horsefeathers!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Now, look here, Red.

  Lil Andrews : Aw, she gives me a pain in the teeth! Trying to hang onto you when you're through with her!

  Irene : You won't have him long! You caught him with sex. But, sex isn't the only thing in life and it doesn't last forever and when it's gone you'll lose him! Because then he'll want love! And love is one thing you don't know anything about and never will!

  [storms out] 

  Lil Andrews : Why, that dirty little cat!

• Lil Andrews : You know, it really is going to be charming.

  Sally : Say, you're gettin' to talk like a pansy.

  Lil Andrews : All right, it's gonna be swell.

• Lil Andrews : I'm not afraid of that washed-out housewife.

• Lil Andrews : Charlie, you're going to do something for me.

  Gaerste : Oh, am I? Oh, what is it?

  Lil Andrews : Well, you're going to ask your guests to come to a party at my house in your honor.

  Gaerste : No, no, my child. I can't do that. No, no. Not after - No.

  Lil Andrews : Oh, yes you can. I'll be listening at that door. And if you don't invite them within five minutes after they arrive here, I'll walk in and make a scene that Shakespeare couldn't top.

• Lil Andrews : Oh, boy, you should have seen those dames! Eating right out of my hand.

• Sally : So, they all had a good time, huh?

  Lil Andrews : Did they! Why, they could hardly tear themselves away. They wouldn't have left at all, only they have a charity roundup in the morning and they have to get to bed.

  Sally : Are they all going to bed with Irene?

  Lil Andrews : What do you mean?

  Sally : Well, your whole party's making a beeline right across the street to her house.

• Gaerste : You won't be long, will you dear?

  Lil Andrews : I'll be up at cocktail time.

  Gaerste : I'll be waiting!

• Lil Andrews : Why you dirty, gumshoeing, hypocritical sneak.

• Lil Andrews : [baby girl voice]  B-ill. Aw, B-ill, come 'ere. Come 'ere. B-ill, I'm crazy about cha.