Success at Any Price (1934)

Genevieve Tobin: Agnes

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• Merritt : What was it you said you wanted?

  Agnes : Money... money, money.

  Merritt : Charming. You're so nice and subtle about it.

  Agnes : I'm too nice to be subtle and you know it. I don't know how to be coy. Besides, you wouldn't like me if I were. If I'm not satisfactory, you can take me off the payroll.

  Merritt : You're just a poor little thing, who doesn't seem to be able to make both ends meet on a thousand a month.

  Merritt : I'm sorry Ray, I do my best. My bank account always seems to be overdrawn. You're a fool to be so generous.

  Merritt : Oh, don't be so morbid. I'll take care of it. I always will. As long as you limit your affections.

• Agnes : Why don't you make it nicer, Ray? Why don't you marry me?

  Merritt : You've got no soul.

  Agnes : Neither have you, you old codfish. That's why we're so well suited.

• Agnes : Aren't there any romantic people in the world? Sometimes I think I'd like something quite different. Something mad and wonderful. A real exciting man to sweep me off my feet.

  Merritt : Try Spain.

• 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?

• 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.