Bombshell (1933)

Franchot Tone: Gifford Middleton

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Quotes 

• Gifford Middleton : Your hair is like a field of silver daisies. I'd like to run barefoot through your hair!

• Lola Burns : You hardly know me?

  Gifford Middleton : I've known you in every ripple of moonlight I've ever seen. In every symphony I've ever heard. In every perfume I've ever smelt.

• Gifford Middleton : We'll be married, dear heart, and go together to Utopia.

  Lola Burns : You mean, around the world?

  Gifford Middleton : Around the universe! To the moon! I'll put the ring of Saturn on your finger. We'll sleep on Venus. The Milky Way shall be our coverlet.

  Lola Burns : Oh, not even Norma Shearer or Helen Hayes in their nicest pictures were ever spoken to like that.

• Gifford Middleton : Well, then, I must have seen you sculptured on a frieze. You're like Diana, riding a Macedonian stallion. You're some slim, lovely Amazon riding proudly in her captor's wake. Or, perhaps you're just the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Do you mind my saying these things to you?

• Gifford Middleton : Oh, Lola, my dearest, your mouth is like a gardenia open to the sun. Your lips...

• Gifford Middleton : Queer place, California - insane chaps running about the desert and all that!