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Marion Davies in Beauty's Worth (1922)

Quotes

Beauty's Worth

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  • Opening Title Card: In these days of glittering exteriors it behooves the young to examine carefully lest they mistake a highly polished personality for genuine soul of gold.
  • Title Card: Misses Cynthia and Elizabeth Whitney, to whom the whole Twentieth Century is a work of Satan.
  • Aunt Elizabeth Whitney: Goodness!
  • Aunt Cynthia Whitney: What if our niece were to have heard thy profanity... . for it was nothing less sister, nothing less!
  • Title Card: Miss Prudence Cole, their niece - - a bit of pure gold, but as yet unpolished.
  • Aunt Elizabeth Whitney: Twice this very day have I rebuked thee for singing tunes that are not in the hymn book!
  • Aunt Cynthia Whitney: Thee must not prance, child! Walk soberly as befits a Whitney and a gentlewoman.
  • Prudence Cole: I'm awfully sorry, I didn't mean to be wicked.
  • Henry Garrison: You're the best looking girl I have ever seen... .. in Pottstown.
  • Henry Garrison: Here's to the belle of Pottstown.
  • Mrs. Garrison: How long before you are going to let Prudence come out?
  • Aunt Cynthia Whitney: What does thee mean 'come out'?
  • Mrs. Garrison: You remember playing with Prudence, don't you, Henry?
  • Aunt Elizabeth Whitney: Remember thy maidenly manners, child, and be not bold nor too backward, either.
  • Title Card: Amy Tillson, who has a summer resort mind and hopes to land a gold-lined husband.
  • Amy Tillson: Can't you think of something exciting, Tommy?
  • Tommy: Charades are ripping!
  • Henry Garrison: I suppose you are going to play with the society seals in the pool.
  • [Prudence thinks and then laughs]
  • Title Card: Two days were enough to convince Prudence that she was regarded in the same light as an extra tire, but she was determined to die game.
  • Cheyne Rovein: I wonder what a little diamond like that is doing among all these rhinestones?
  • Peter: She needs a good bit of polishing, I'm thinking, sir!
  • Cheyne Rovein: It isn't that, Peter. All she really needs is a platinum setting.
  • Prudence Cole: I should think a man might be genius and still be a gentleman.
  • Cheyne Rovein: So there is a little fight back under your demure exterior! It's a delightful surprise.
  • Prudence Cole: Why do you want to do all this for me?
  • Cheyne Rovein: So that the world may recognize beauty's worth.
  • Amy Tillson: [to Prudence] I wouldn't want to lure you into the water in that bathing suit... .. you would surely sink.
  • Cheyne Rovein: What can I do for you?
  • Prudence Cole: They sent me up to ask you if you would take charge of some charades the young people are getting up.
  • Cheyne Rovein: Do you mean those brainless puppies expect me to amuse them?
  • Prudence Cole: Yes.
  • Cheyne Rovein: Go back and tell them I am an artist, not the manager of a menagerie.
  • Cheyne Rovein: Don't call those stupid snobs my friends! I have to put up with them just the same as I do mosquitoes.
  • Cheyne Rovein: I shall expect unhesitating obedience to my wishes.
  • Cheyne Rovein: You may not know it, Miss Cole, but you are a far truer artistic type than anyone else here.
  • Tommy: Why, she's... .. she's ripping!
  • Jane: Such sinful clothes! What would thy aunts say to all this?
  • Prudence Cole: I should think it worth a great effort to fight for one's dreams.
  • Prudence Cole: Henry, tell me... . how would you define *Love*?
  • Henry Garrison: It's the way you feel towards somebody who is awfully smart and will dressed...... and all that sort of thing.
  • [last lines]
  • Prudence Cole: If you don't understand, I can't explain.
  • Henry Garrison: You certainly look delightfully smart this morning.
  • Society Man: She's not a quaker, she's a shaker.
  • Tommy: Gosh, your gown is ripping!
  • Prudence Cole: Tell me, what would you say that love is?
  • Cheyne Rovein: Love - - love is companionship and understanding - - the joy of being with the one you love - - of giving to the one you love.
  • Mrs. Garrison: [at the swimming pool] Isn't it wonderful the way Prudence is developing?
  • Mrs. Garrison: You don't realize how Prudence has come out since she has been here.
  • Aunt Elizabeth Whitney: I realized how much she had come out the moment I saw her.
  • Henry Garrison: I haven't told you the real reason why I'm so anxious to have you allow Prudence to remain. By Jove, old dears, I've made up my mind to marry the girl.
  • Henry Garrison: I think Prudence was jolly good.
  • Henry Garrison: Prudence, when are we going to get married?
  • Prudence Cole: But Henry, I have not said I love you!
  • Henry Garrison: Listen, I'm talking to you about marriage! Why get off on another subject?
  • Prudence Cole: I only did exactly what you told me to do. What shall I do now?
  • Society Matron: Why, the child is shimmying!

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