Scarlet Street (1945)

Joan Bennett: Katharine 'Kitty' March

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• Kitty March : Well, I was going to do this myself, but, uh...

  [hands him toenail polish] 

  Kitty March : Paint me, Chris!... They'll be masterpieces.

• Kitty March : How long does it take you to paint a picture?

  Christopher Cross : Sometimes a day, sometimes a year. You can't tell. It has to grow.

  Kitty March : I never knew paint could grow.

  Christopher Cross : Feeling grows. You know, that's the important thing, feeling. You take me. No one ever taught me how to draw, so I just put a line around what I feel when I look at things.

  Kitty March : Yeah I see.

  Christopher Cross : It's like falling in love I guess. You know... first you see someone, then it keeps growing, until you can't think of anyone else.

  Kitty March : That's interesting.

  Christopher Cross : The way I think of things, that all art is. Every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.

  Kitty March : I never heard anyone talk like that before.

  Christopher Cross : There aren't many people you can talk to this way. So you keep it to yourself. You walk around with everything bottled up.

• [last lines] 

  Kitty March : Johnny. Oh, Johnny.

  Johnny Prince : Lazy Legs.

  Kitty March : Jeepers, I love you Johnny.

• Johnny Prince : And then you gave me a dirty look.

  Kitty March : I didn't give you a dirty look!

  Johnny Prince : Listen, any girl that waits two hours in the rain for a guy is gonna give him a dirty look.

• Kitty March : Who do you think you are? My guardian angel?

  Millie Ray : Not me, honey. I lost those wings a long time ago.

• Kitty March : If he were mean or vicious or if he'd bawl me out or something, I'd like him better.

• Kitty March : You wouldn't know love if it hit you in the face.

  Millie Ray : If that's where it hits you, you ought to know!

• Johnny Prince : Lazy Legs,

  [kisses her] 

  Johnny Prince : I don't know what you told Janeway, but you got him eatin' right out of your hand.

  Kitty March : It won't stop with lunch!

• Kitty March : You know those art galleries on Fifth Avenue? The prices they charge! I saw one little picture that cost fifty-thousand dollars. They call it, uh, 'Seezan'.

  Christopher Cross : Cezanne? Oh, he was a great French painter. I'd like to own that painting.

  Kitty March : You would? For fifty-thousand dollars?

  Christopher Cross : You can't put any price on masterpieces like that. They're worth, well, whatever you can afford to pay for them.

  Kitty March : You know what, Chris? I bet I saw some of your pictures there and didn't know it. Next time I'll look for your name.

  Christopher Cross : Oh no no no no no. I, uh... I don't sell my pictures.

  Kitty March : Well not in New York you mean.

  Christopher Cross : No, I-...

  Kitty March : I know. I bet your sell your pictures in Europe, France or someplace like that. I don't know much about painting, but I bet your get as much for your pictures in France as those Frenchman get right here in New York. You're never appreciated in your own country.

  Christopher Cross : Well that's one way of looking at it. But you know when I paint, I don't think of money. I just paint for fun.

  Kitty March : Fun?

  Christopher Cross : Yes. I think it's the most fun I know, painting. I wish I had all the time to paint.

  Kitty March : But don't you have time?

  Christopher Cross : [stammering]  Well you know... business takes a lot of time.

  Kitty March : I wonder when you get all that money.

• Kitty March : Why are looking at me? Is my face dirty?

  Christopher Cross : No, it's beautiful.

  Kitty March : I'll bet it is!

• Millie Ray : May I come in to my own apartment?

  Johnny Prince : Hello, Funny Face.

  Millie Ray : Why don't you just move in, Johnny. Then I can move out.

  Kitty March : Now, Millie, stop picking on my fiancé.

  Millie Ray : How do you spell that word?

• Christopher Cross : Don't cry, Kitty, please don't cry.

  Kitty March : I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

  Christopher Cross : Kitty!

  Kitty March : Oh, you idiot! How can a man be so dumb?

  Christopher Cross : Kitty...

  Christopher Cross : I've wanted to laugh in your face ever since I first met you. You're old and ugly and I'm sick of you. Sick, sick, sick!

• Kitty March : I thought you were modeling girdles for the catalog.

  Millie Ray : I have been. Oh, I ache like a dog. If corsets ever come back, I swear I'll quit modeling.

• Millie Ray : Honey, what's happened to you?

  Kitty March : Don't you wish it could happen to you? I'm in love - crazy in love!

  Millie Ray : With a man that pushes you around the way I wouldn't push a cat around.

  Kitty March : You leave Johnny out of this!

  Millie Ray : With your looks and figure you could get any man you want!

  Kitty March : Sure! But there's only one I want.

  Millie Ray : Yeah, and he's making a tramp out of you.

• Kitty March : I've been out to dinner with him three times this week and now he's talking about breakfast. He's getting that look in his eye.

• Kitty March : Don't forget the money.

  Christopher Cross : I'll get it.

• Kitty March : The way I look at it, every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.

  Damon Janeway : May I quote that?

  Kitty March : Oh no, no, no.

• Kitty March : He tried to kiss me today. And don't think I liked it.

  Johnny Prince : Ahhh. You've been kissed before.