The Law in Her Hands (1936)

Margaret Lindsay: Mary Wentworth

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• Mary Wentworth : Sorry I'm late, Franz; but, it isn't everyday that a girl gets sworn in as a lawyer.

• Mary Wentworth : Jesse James is a Boy Scout compared to him. Why, he's the biggest racketeer in town.

• Mary Wentworth , Dorothy 'Dot' Davis : [phone rings]  A client!

  Dorothy 'Dot' Davis : Bread and butter.

  Mary Wentworth : Needles and pins.

  Dorothy 'Dot' Davis : Knives and forks.

  Mary Wentworth : [picks up the phone]  Wentworth and Davis...

• Mary Wentworth : I want to give the practice of law a fair trial.

• Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : It's a long time since I've ridden the subway out to Brooklyn.

  Mary Wentworth : An aristocrat, eh? Well, it won't hurt you this once. Besides it's good for the circulation, it shakes up the liver. You never heard of anyone from Brooklyn needing an osteopath, did you?

• Mary Wentworth : I thought the court was a place where they served justice.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Look, Mary, why don't you give it all up?

  Mary Wentworth : Give up?

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : I'm making forty-five hundred a year now and that's enough for both of us. Mary, will you marry me?

• Mary Wentworth : Give me a year. I can learn a lot of tricks in a year.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Okay, it's a bargain. The worst of luck to you.

• Mary Wentworth : I'm going to stick it out, Bob. You don't want to marry a failure.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : But, what if you don't succeed? Mary, the law's no profession for a woman.

  Mary Wentworth : My, but you're encouraging. Don't tell me you're one of those 'woman's place is in the home' me.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Ah, no. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. But, Mary the legal profession is full of tricks and technicalities. It's not for a woman.

  Mary Wentworth : Women have been known to learn tricks.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Sure. I don't want my wife to know too many of them.

• Mary Wentworth : I'm surprised you even wanting to call on a shyster like me.

  Frank 'Legs' Gordon : You're no shyster. You're just a stubborn, pig-headed, wise-cracking, female and you ought to be turned over somebody's knee and have the 'by golly' spanked right out of you!

  Mary Wentworth : Naughty, naughty. I got a legal separation last week for a woman whose husband spanked her.

• Frank 'Legs' Gordon : How's my beautiful mouthpiece this morning?

  Mary Wentworth : All right, but, I wish you'd stop talking like a dentist office.

• Dorothy 'Dot' Davis : I smart lawyer knows when he's whipped.

  Mary Wentworth : I'm not whipped.