Twentieth Century (1934)
Carole Lombard: Lily Garland formerly Mildred Plotka
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Quotes
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : That's the trouble with you, Oscar. With both of us. We're not people, we're lithographs. We don't know anything about love unless it's written and rehearsed. We're only real in between curtains.
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Oscar Jaffe : I'm offering you a last chance to become immortal.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Then I've decided to stay mortal with responsible management.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : All those opera tenors, acrobats, that Italian bicycle rider I told you about... they're all lies. The only man in my life was that cavalier in there. Oscar Jaffe.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Is Oscar Jaffe on this train? You'd better tell me.
Owen O'Malley : Right in there. The Little Corporal is returning from another Moscow, his head bloodied but still unbowed.
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George Smith : Lying to me! Every minute with every breath, lying to me!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Yes. I tried to save you pain! I lied, yes, only to save you!
Oscar Jaffe : That' s from Sappho.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Get out!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : What is it this time - the big drama about Hairpin Annie, the pride of the gashouse?
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George Smith : And you wanted my respect!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Who cares about your respect? I'm too big to be respected. The men I've known have understood that.
George Smith : Men you've known? Jaffe, you mean.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Yes, Jaffe. He'll tell you what I am: A first-class passenger entitled to privileges.
George Smith : Oh, an artist!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : You're darned tooting I am!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Oscar, you're complete. The most horrible excuse for a human being that ever walked on two legs.
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Oscar Jaffe : Lily, you're crying.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Sure, I turn on a faucet. It's that sort of scene.
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Oscar Jaffe : When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes. It never dies.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Phooey.
Oscar Jaffe : Love blinded me. That was the trouble between us as producer and artist.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : So that's what it was, was it? How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?
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Oscar Jaffe : When I love a woman, I'm an Oriental. It never goes! It never dies!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Phooey!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Why do they keep hammering at me? Hammering and hammering...
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Oscar Jaffe : I'm offering you your last chance to become immortal.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Thanks, I've decided to stay mortal - with a responsible management!
Oscar Jaffe : Who?
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Max Jacobs!
Oscar Jaffe : I can't believe it.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : No? Read the papers tomorrow, then. Why do you think I left Hollywood?
Oscar Jaffe : Max Jacobs! He's a thief! Illiterate! He can hardly write his own name!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : He writes it on checks, all right - great BIG checks, too!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : You go back and tell that fake Svengali I wouldn't wipe my feet on him if he were starving, and I hope he is.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Well, I showed him. Right on top of the ladder and going up.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : He made a million dollars off me, if that's what you mean. And I'm not catering to his senseless, neurotic, egomaniac jealousies any longer. I'm no Tribly.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Fame! Success! Empty words! What is therein? Stop making those awful faces.
George Smith : Stop acting.
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Oscar Jaffe : Do you trust me, child?
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Yes.
Oscar Jaffe : I'm going to find the soul that's there and release it - so it'll fly. Soar up to the top gallery!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Oscar, you're complete. The most horrible excuse for a human being that ever walked on two legs.
Oscar Jaffe : You've always misunderstood me, Lily. No matter what I said, if he'd been a lover, a real man, he'd have taken you in his arms, he'd have been tender. Instead of that, he stalked out of the room, like a Reverend Henry Davidson in "Rain".
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Your philosophy of love doesn't interest me, Mr. Jaffe.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : What do you want, scorpion?
Oscar Jaffe : If it makes you any happier to call me names, go ahead.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : I despise temperament.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : The lies he told about me and my mom. Called himself my Svengali.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : George, you've got to believe in me.
George Smith : Yes, when you're dead.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : George, let's elope.
George Smith : Why elope? There's no one stopping us.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : I've taken all the bullying from you I'm going to. No man living can kick me around for eight hours until I can't see straight. I'm a human being, do you hear? A human being!
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : I wanted to be an actress, but I won't crawl on my stomach for any man! You - you find somebody else.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : I'll tell you what you are. A fake. Go on, jump! Kill yourself.
Oscar Jaffe : You washwoman's daughter!
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : What did you call me?
Oscar Jaffe : You! Soaking yourself in perfume like a hired girl. Half undressed for other men. You don't fool me.
[Lily slaps Oscar]
Oscar Jaffe : Go on, hit me. I'm not stopping you.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : How little you know the real Lily Garland, George. I've died so often, made love so much on the stage, that I've lost track of what' s real.
George Smith : Well, what is real?
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : A house, a home with a little attic and a cookie jar and a doorstep, and little feet, pattering up and down.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Look out! You're ruining my negligee.
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Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Maxie! Maxie! Maxie! Oh, my sweetheart. My darling. My angel.
Max Jacobs : I got a new Somerset Maugham play for you. It just came out by plane.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Oh, Sweet. That's divine!
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Oscar Jaffe : Stop. Let' s do this thing correctly. You've been in *Hollywood* too long. I think you've forgotten a lot of things. Give me the chalk, please.
Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Oscar, I want it distinctly understood...
Oscar Jaffe : Now, I'll show you how it' s done in the theater.
