Success at Any Price (1934)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: Joe Martin

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• Joe Martin : I'm on to that guy. Does he ever do anything but gab and drink?

  Sarah : He's terribly busy! You heard him say he was going to a conference.

  Joe Martin : Conference? Blonde or brunette?

• Sarah : Are you really jealous about me and Mr. Merritt? He's been awfully descent to me and I respect him.

  Joe Martin : Go on, let him have you. I know what's what, you know. It's what it amounts to. He's soft on you and you're eaten it up in a big way. Go on, I don't blame you. Maybe he'll raise you two bucks a week.

• Merritt : Do you know anything about glamour cream?

  Joe Martin : Yeah, I know all about it. Looks like putty and sells for 14 bucks a jar.

  Merritt : Put it on at night. Penetrates the pores of the skin. Works while you sleep.

  Joe Martin : Sounds like something for bed bugs.

  Merritt : It's made from the glandular fluids of real alligators. I've seen them myself.

  Joe Martin : I wouldn't lay that on too thick in the copy. You know, no dame likes to look like an alligator.

  Merritt : I'm going to call your bluff right now, Martin. You think you can write copy? Between now and 8 o'clock you're going to write the copy for one of our most important new clients. If you get away with it, you're hired at 50 a week.

• Joe Martin : Don't be a fool. I haven't changed my mind about him. He's only giving me this chance because he's mushy on you.

• Joe Martin : That lavender water sure gets my nanny.

  Agnes : Take a good whiff.

  Joe Martin : What do you call it?

  Agnes : D'amour.

  Joe Martin : Do you use it all over you?

  Agnes : Well, not exactly. I use other things.

  Joe Martin : Ha-ha-ha, I can just see you in a hot bath with this a'mour stuff.

  Agnes : Oh, that's indecent.

  Joe Martin : Yeah, I heard worse.

  Agnes : Tell me worse.

• Joe Martin : I've been sitting up here trying to think up catch words for the luxury trade. Trying to sell cream to dolls that rub it on themselves. Suddenly, I look up and your standing there. I mean, glamour. This beauty they get for 14 bucks a pot. You're a pot of that scene. It's the stuff that makes poets go cuckoo.

  Agnes : Ha-ha-ha. Go on, your cuckoo yourself.

  Joe Martin : Oh, you don't know what I'm talking about. Your, your not so much. But you look like you stepped out of a little pot of gold. And when I seen you, I seen the whole game.

• Agnes : You know, I could use you.

  Joe Martin : What for?

  Agnes : Oh, just to crack the whip over you. Because your so wild. Because you want to punch people and call them names and walk over them. I could teach you a few things. And if I wanted to, I could make you jump through hoops.

  Joe Martin : You want to try?

• Dinah : Oh, Mr. Martin, Mr. Fisher's been asking for you. He says you take too long for lunch.

  Joe Martin : Why don't you tell him to boil his head for a cabbage.

• Joe Martin : Oh, say, Dinah. How do you like working for Fisher? Any complaints? Funny, I used to have that job myself, you know.

  Dinah : Oh, he's wonderful, Mr. Martin. Mr. Fisher's just lovely to me.

  Fisher : Miss McKay was a very charming girl, Mr. Martin. She belongs definitely in the plus group. Very, very willing. She's been a great help to me, really.

  Joe Martin : Sounds like you've got a regular love nest in there.

  Dinah : Oh, Mr. Martin. It's nothing like that.

  Fisher : Nothing of the kind. But, oh, I wish it were.

  Dinah : Dinah, I congratulate you. At last you're working for a man who's willing to do wrong by you.

  Dinah : Oh, Mr. Martin. You don't suppose I'd said he was lovely to me if he tried anything like that.

  Joe Martin : You never can tell.

  Fisher : Oh, a man's better nature should over balance his lower instincts.

• Joe Martin : Frankly, I don't get this stuff about ethics.

• Agnes : Don't ask me questions. And don't act as if you own me. I can paddle my own canoe.

  Joe Martin : Is there any place in your canoe for me?

  Agnes : Ha-ha-ha. No, I should say not. You're the kind that rocks the boat.

• Agnes : Look, Joe, it's dawn.

  Joe Martin : Yeah. The ole sun comes up when its ready, whether you like it or not.

  Agnes : I guess you'd tell the sun to stand still if you could.

  Joe Martin : Hey, you're almost home. Do I have to leave you now?

  Agnes : Come up to breakfast. But, promise not to be sappy.

• Agnes : I like New York. I like noise and parties. And I'd die anywhere else.

  Joe Martin : Sure, all the thoughts in your empty head are jazz and noise.

• Agnes : You never trusted me. You never even really bothered to know me.

  Joe Martin : I know you're made out of perfume and whipped cream. You haven't got any heart. You've got a little pile of broken glass where your heart ought to be.

  Agnes : You make up things about me. You have every part of me in a card index, haven't you? The wax face, the jewels. But, that's not me. You're too selfish to see the real me.

• Sarah : What good has it done you?

  Joe Martin : Nothing. Just a lot of dreams that turned into nightmares before I could touch 'em.

• Fisher : She's expectant, Mr. Martin.

  Joe Martin : Oh.

  Dinah : What I expect is a baby.

  Joe Martin : Well, that's probably what you'll get.