Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Ann Harding: Marion Forsythe

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• Marion Forsythe : Could you come back later? You see, Feydie and I haven't seen each other since...

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Since Vienna. Yes, I know.

  Marion Forsythe : How did you know?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Well, isn't it always since Vienna that Bohemians haven't seen one another?

• Reporter : Did you paint any big shots this year?

  Reporter on Ship : She did do American Hitler.

  Marion Forsythe : And General Strong. Don't forget the General.

  Reporter on Ship : Is it true you had to hold Strong off with one hand while you painted him with the other?

  Marion Forsythe : Nonsense!

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, Mr. Kurt, am I late?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You telephone me and ask me for an appointment. As a matter of convenience to you, I make it here, instead of at my office. The appointment was for five o'clock and it is now five thirty. It has taken me a half hour to get here. That is one hour. One hour in which I might have made love to a girl, read a good book, or had a decent idea. One hour irreparably lost!

  Marion Forsythe : Well, go on. Hit me.

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, Minnie, that's much too rakish for The Times. A little conservative number, dear.

• Marion Forsythe : Do you want to be a Senator? Or, can't you help it?

• Marion Forsythe : You're a brutal young man! But, I rather like you.

• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Your state of undress means nothing to me.

  Marion Forsythe : I can't very well get off the steamer like this.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : All right. Go ahead and dress. I won't stop you. But, you'll listen to my proposition now.

• Marion Forsythe : Young man, you make me feel like an institution.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I wish you'd stop calling me young man.

  Marion Forsythe : I beg pardon, old man.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Marion, why you're evil. Oh, you haven't the face of evil. But, you're evil. Evil!

  Marion Forsythe : Bunny, darling, you can't possibly mean that. I might just as well say that you're evil because you're intolerant. These things are just differences in temperament, that's all.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That is sophistry.

  Marion Forsythe : Oh, come on. Have cup of tea with me, huh?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, I - I...

  Marion Forsythe : Would your constituents object to your having a cup of tea with a notorious woman?

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : All these years I've been wanting to see you to get it off my mind.

  Marion Forsythe : Did you want to have the last word, Bunny?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I wanted to see you, to stand before you, to tell myself, "Here she is and what of it."

  Marion Forsythe : I know exactly how you feel. Like having a tooth out.

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, Bunny, I should like to paint you. In a toga!

• Marion Forsythe : You shouldn't let anything fret you that happened so long ago.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Oh, I know, I know. You're just saying that to solve my conscience. But, I won't have it. I know my guilt and I'm going to bear it.

  Marion Forsythe : Of course, I don't want to deprive you of any of your little pleasures.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm not a Bohemian.

  Marion Forsythe : You're not going to tell me you're a gypsy, Bunny?

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Really, I wish you wouldn't call me Bunny.

  Marion Forsythe : Well, I always did! What is your real name?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Why you know, perfectly well.

  Marion Forsythe : I swear I don't.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : My name is Leander.

  Marion Forsythe : Now, Bunny, really?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That's my name.

  Marion Forsythe : Really? Oh! I'd forgotten. Leander. Who was he? He did something in the Hellespont, didn't he? What did he do in the Hellespont?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, Marion, that's beside the point.

• Marion Forsythe : Are you vertical or horizontal, Bunny?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm both.

• Marion Forsythe : Bunny, I'll tell you why I left. It was because I always suspected within myself a sort of a wanderlust. I knew it would horrify you once you found it out. You see, it horrifies you now when we're no longer anything at all to each other.

• Marion Forsythe : Stop fidgeting, Bunny. Now, how can I...

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's like being watched while you're taking a bath.

• Marion Forsythe : Sorry, the tip isn't big enough.

• Marion Forsythe : You always freeze up so, Dickie, whenever I try to find out anything about you.

• Marion Forsythe : Mr. Kurt likes coffee so strong that it can walk right out of the kitchen all by itself.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You'd forgotten me yourself.

  Marion Forsythe : Forgotten? Oh, no. No, the Bunny I remembered was another Bunny.

• Marion Forsythe : You can't go away like this and leave me - alone with my life.

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, this is going to be so much fun. I think its going to be marvelous. I really do. It'll be a knock-out. And just imagine being paid for it, too! Oh, you are an angel, Dickie.

• Marion Forsythe : Dickie, darling, why are you so bitter against me? Why against me?

• Marion Forsythe : She'll be very, very proud of you Bunny.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's funny. Very funny.

• Marion Forsythe : He's a dear. There's something very touching about Bunny.

• Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : I always say, take most of the bad men and most of the loose women, correct their metabolism and you correct them.

  Marion Forsythe : Oh, my. Its extraordinary how little one knows about one's own body, isn't it? Take myself, for example, I'm so constantly reckless. What is that, Orrin?

  Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : Defective

  Mr. Orrin Kinnicott , Marion Forsythe : Metabolism.

  Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : Tell me Marion.

  Marion Forsythe : What?

  Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : Do you eat enough roughage?

• Marion Forsythe : You're all wrong about Slade, dear. Its only her manner that shocks you and her modern gestures. If you really understood me, I'd shock you much more.

• Marion Forsythe : I'm sailing tomorrow by way of the Canal for Hollywood. Feydie's out there, you know.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Yes. Yes, I'd heard he'd left.

  Marion Forsythe : He's gotten me a marvelous commission to paint some of the biggest stars in motion pictures.

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, Dickie, you're so stubborn.