Stage Fright (1950)

Kay Walsh: Nellie Goode

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• Nellie Goode : Questions? They've been asking me this, asking me that, all morning long. I didn't know whether I was comin' or goin'. Gin and lemon, please, Miss Tippett. Not too much lemon, dear. Mind you, they never laid a finger on me. But, oh, the questions. Nag, nag, nag. "How did you know it was Mr. Cooper?" "How many times you seen him and where?" and "Did he give you anything?" Blimey, he never gave me nothing. And "How long you been Miss Inwood's maid?" Well, they was gentlemanly and polite, all right; but, give me the bleedin' rations any day, dear.

• Eve Gill : And I could take your place.

  Nellie Goode : You'd never get away with it. What makes you think you could be a maid?

  Eve Gill : Well, it would only be for a day or two.

  Nellie Goode : You'd have to be a dresser down at the theater, too. You couldn't do that. That's very highly skilled work.

  Eve Gill : Well, I could if you told me how.

• Nellie Goode : It sounds phony to me. All this trouble, just to get a newspaper story?

  Eve Gill : Well, we women reporters have a tough job competing with the men, especially on important stories like this.

• Eve Gill : I could do it, really I could. I've done a bit of acting.

  Nellie Goode : Character acting?

  Eve Gill : Yes.

  Nellie Goode : I see. All you got to do is put on some of your old clothes and make yourself look common like me.

• Commodore Gill : Miss Livingston, I presume.

  Nellie Goode : That's not my name.

  Commodore Gill : No, no, no, it's Nellie Goode, isn't it? But, what does a name matter? After all, I could think of lots and lots of much more appropriate names for you.

  Nellie Goode : Yes and I could think of a few for you, too. Who are you?