The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

Rex Harrison: Jimmy Broadbent

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• Sheila Broadbent : No, darling, it's Jane. She's no good with men. She doesn't know any, and she doesn't want to know any.

  Jimmy Broadbent : Well, she's a wise girl.

  Sheila Broadbent : Oh, darling, it isn't funny. Now, you've got to talk to her.

  Jimmy Broadbent : Talk to her? Why should I?

  Sheila Broadbent : Well, because you're a man, and you can tell her what the young men want.

  Jimmy Broadbent : [leering undertone]  My dear!

  Sheila Broadbent : Oh, don't be silly, darling, of course you can. I'm sure they don't change that much.

  Jimmy Broadbent : No, you bet they don't.

• Sheila Broadbent : Jimmy, how long does it take a native dancer to get warmed up?

  Jimmy Broadbent : Oh, I don't know. Depends on the time of day, I suppose.

• Sheila Broadbent : Oh, Jimmy, what are we to do?

  Jimmy Broadbent : Fill up your glass , old girl.

• Sheila Broadbent : Jimmy, if she brings him up here for a drink, she'll know we've been waiting up for her.

  Jimmy Broadbent : And so we have.

  Sheila Broadbent : But, darling, she musn't. Psychologically, it's wrong to let her see we're worried. You see, even if she isn't interested in David Parkson, she thinks we'd be against it if she was, she will be.

  Jimmy Broadbent : She was, she will be?

  Sheila Broadbent : No, darling, she mustn't know. We must wait up for her, don't you see?

  Jimmy Broadbent : But, Jane...

  Sheila Broadbent : No, no, darling, in the kitchen.

• Sheila Broadbent : Now go in the kitchen.

  Jimmy Broadbent : The kitchen...?

  Sheila Broadbent : To see if you can hear me.

  Jimmy Broadbent : But I can hear you from here.

  Sheila Broadbent : Oh, Jimmy, do try and understand. We're hiding in the kitchen. We have to know what's going on. Now run along.

• Sheila Broadbent : Jimmy?

  Jimmy Broadbent : Yes?

  Sheila Broadbent : Shut the door.

  Jimmy Broadbent : I... I can hear you better with it open.

  Sheila Broadbent : Shut the door!

  Jimmy Broadbent : Yes, darling.

• Jimmy Broadbent : I could take a sort of nap before the office, if you wouldn't mind.

• Jimmy Broadbent : My permission? I'm a married man. My wife and I make joint decisions.

  David Parkson : Then tell her about Brenda Bassington.

  Jimmy Broadbent : She wouldn't believe it.

  David Parkson : Do you?

  Jimmy Broadbent : Yes.

  David Parkson : Well, then.

  Jimmy Broadbent : Well, that has nothing to do with it. Truth doesn't mean the same to a woman that it does to a man. To them, it's what they want to believe, regardless of the facts...

• Jimmy Broadbent : Her prestige is at stake. She must be allowed to do it on her own. Somehow...

• Sheila Broadbent : Jimmy?

  Jimmy Broadbent : Shhh. Later, darling.

  [as they begin to dance, he kisses her tenderly]