Female (1933)

George Brent: Jim Thorne

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  Jim Thorne : What about you?

  Alison Drake : Oh, you didn't know? I'm gonna have nine children.

  Jim Thorne : Is that all?

  Alison Drake : That's all.

• Alison Drake : Tell me more about you.

  Jim Thorne : Listen, what's the idea of all these questions? You workin' for the government?

  Alison Drake : No. Just tryin' to get acquainted. What's your name?

  Jim Thorne : Aw, you're too fresh.

• Alison Drake : Come, sit down here. I want you to talk to me.

  Jim Thorne : About what?

  Alison Drake : About me.

  Jim Thorne : Oh, I see. Well, you may be president of the Drake Automobile Company, but, I was engaged as an engineer - not as a gigolo. And I'm not holding my job by humoring any little whims of yours.

  Alison Drake : I assure you, this is not a little whim!

  Jim Thorne : And hereafter when you want to talk business, you can see me at the factory.

  Alison Drake : You're very rude!

  Jim Thorne : I'm very sorry. Good night, Miss Drake.

• Jim Thorne : But the laugh's on me. Offering a marriage license to a pick-up.

• Alison Drake : Hey, wait a minute. Where are you going?

  Jim Thorne : Now, listen. We've had a big evening. I took you dancing and bought you an elegant supper. Now, you get on your bicycle and peddle along, wherever you're going.

  Alison Drake : I'm going with you!

  Jim Thorne : Oh, no. You're a nice kid, but, I don't take up pick-ups home with me. Understand? Good night.

• Jim Thorne : Say, what is this. Are you following me around?

  Alison Drake : Can't help myself. You're so irresistible.

  Jim Thorne : You work here?

  Alison Drake : Yeah. Do you?

  Jim Thorne : I just started today. What department are you in?

  Alison Drake : The pick-up department.

• Jim Thorne : Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

  Alison Drake : Sit down.

  Jim Thorne : Baby, you certainly are fresh.

• Jim Thorne : I'd put the clutch here. You see the advantage of that. Do you see the advantage of that?

  Alison Drake : What?

  Jim Thorne : I was explaining about the clutch.

  Alison Drake : Oh, the clutch, of course. I was thinking about something else.

• Jim Thorne : Now, the rear axle is three-quarters filtered. You equip it with tappered rollar bearings with excess radial load and thrust capacity.

  Alison Drake : Aw, doesn't vodka affect you at all?

  Jim Thorne : No. Well, not very much.

  Alison Drake : But, most men, I mean, eh, vodka, eh-eh, you know...

  Jim Thorne : Oh, when I was in Russia once on an engineering job, we used to brush our teeth with it there.

• Jim Thorne : You know, you're a very amazing person.

  Alison Drake : Because I run a factory?

  Jim Thorne : No, because you forget so completely running a factory.

  Alison Drake : You mean, because, I become so completely a woman?

  Jim Thorne : Yes. That's it.

  Alison Drake : You know, very few people have the intelligence to realize that they confuse the two things, so hopelessly.

  Jim Thorne : Oh, very few people have the advantage of first meeting you in a shooting gallery as a pick-up and then having drinks with you in the ten cents a dance palace. I found out quite a bit about you.

  Alison Drake : You know, I needed you that night. I needed to have someone accept me as plain woman.

• Alison Drake : I think the reason that I resented it was because you refused to take me seriously. You were amused.

  Jim Thorne : What did you expect?

  Alison Drake : Oh, I don't know, quite. But, I think if you'd said "Come here" and yanked me into a corner and kissed I'd a been terribly grateful.

• Jim Thorne : There's just one more point, now, about these blueprints that I want to show you here.

  Alison Drake : Oh, we were forgetting business so beautifully. Must you talk about automobiles?

  Jim Thorne : Yes!

  Alison Drake : I thought engineering was a profession, not an affliction.

• Jim Thorne : I suppose you think you're too superior for marriage and love and children - things that women were born for. Say, who do you think you are? Are you so drunk with your own importance, you think you can make your own rules? Well, you're a fake! You've been playing this part so long you've begun to believe it. The great super woman. Cracking her whip and making these poor fools jump around. You and your new freedom. Why, if you weren't so pathetic, you'd be funny!

  Alison Drake : You better go.

  Jim Thorne : Don't worry! I'm on my way. But, the laughs on me. I bring a marriage license to a pick-up!

• Alison Drake : Don't be absurd. You're being old-fashioned.

  Jim Thorne : Is it old-fashioned to want to be decent?