Judy Holliday credited as playing...
Laura Partridge
- Edward L. McKeever: I was hoping to talk to you again, because the last time I saw you, I - well, it was - it was an abrupt departure.
- Laura Partridge: Oh, it was abrupt. You ran like a thief.
- Edward L. McKeever: Miss Partridge, you see, I'm a businessman, and all my life I've concentrated on business. Now, this has necessarily forced me to devote more of my time to some things and less to others. You understand.
- Laura Partridge: Sure. You're scared of girls.
- Laura Partridge: Do you like Shakespeare?
- Edward L. McKeever: Well, I've read a lot of it.
- Laura Partridge: Well, take my advice and don't play it! It's so tiring! They don't let you sit down unless you're a king!
- Edward L. McKeever: Aren't there a lot of little theaters off-Broadway, you know, groups?
- Laura Partridge: Oh, sure. I used to belong to one last year: The Young Shakespeareans. You know what they did? Nothing but Shakespeare.
- Laura Partridge: I think you're stuck on him. Why don't you tell him? If he knew you liked him, he'd fall apart like a soggy donut.
- Laura Partridge: It's you!
- Edward L. McKeever: Yes, it's me; but, you.
- Laura Partridge: Oh, it's me too!
- Laura Partridge: Would you like some coffee?
- Edward L. McKeever: Well, I'm due in Blessington's office.
- Laura Partridge: How about a sandwich?
- Edward L. McKeever: No, not really.
- Laura Partridge: Oh, it's delicious! It's peanut butter and smoked salmon. I make it myself.
- Edward L. McKeever: Well, no, just some coffee.
- Edward L. McKeever: That's a nasty thing. A young girl comes to Washington to try and get an innocent, honest businessman to do something unethical. To entice him with her wiles.
- Laura Partridge: My wiles? I didn't plan to use one single, solitary wile on you.
- Edward L. McKeever: You know, all of the sudden I have the feeling I want to kiss you.
- Laura Partridge: You do? Well...
- Edward L. McKeever: I'm sorry. What an idea. Wanting to kiss you in your office.
- Laura Partridge: Oh, it's all right. I'm on my lunch hour.
- Edward L. McKeever: That's it! We can get them out for committing a criminal act! They did *send* you to Washington.
- Laura Partridge: Yes.
- Edward L. McKeever: They bought you clothes, gave you an airplane ticket. Sent you to pressure me into giving them government contracts.
- Laura Partridge: That's right.
- Edward L. McKeever: Will you testify to that in court?
- Laura Partridge: Of course!
- Edward L. McKeever: Then, we've got 'em! There happens to be a law against that, Laura! A federal law!
- Laura Partridge: I know! The Mann Act!
- Edward L. McKeever: I think you'll be comfortable here for the night.
- Laura Partridge: Will I! And how'd you ever dig this up?
- [holds up a sheer black nightgown]
- Edward L. McKeever: One of my military aides got it. He probably requisitioned it from his wife.
- Laura Partridge: Oh, this never belonged to any wife.
- Laura Partridge: Mr. Chairman! I got a question.
- John T. Blessington: We haven't asked for questions.
- Laura Partridge: I have a question anyway.
- John T. Blessington: There's a motion on the floor.
- Laura Partridge: I've got a question about the motion.
- John T. Blessington: What's the question?
- Laura Partridge: What's the motion?
- Laura Partridge: I demonstrated a stove on television. "Try this Transcontinental gas range with the ever-loving oven."
- Edward L. McKeever: Oh, you're an actress.
- Laura Partridge: Well, if you want to call it acting. No, but I am an actress. Oh, but not just television. The stage is my field.
- Edward L. McKeever: Oh, really? Are you in anything now?
- Laura Partridge: Well, at the moment I'm in menswear at Bloomingdale's. Just part-time. Show business is a little slow, anyway for me. You know, I'm a very unusual type.
- Laura Partridge: I'd like to see Mr. Blessington.
- Blessington's Secretary: Mr. Blessington? Who shall I say is calling?
- Laura Partridge: You shall say Laura Partridge.
- Laura Partridge: You are probably married. I am not married, as yet; because, of my job as a career woman.
- Laura Partridge: You're Edward L. McKeever. That's a wonderful thing to be! I wouldn't want you to be some actor named *Rock* McKeever or something.
- Laura Partridge: Did you tell him?
- Amelia Shotgraven: [crying at her desk] Tell him what?
- Laura Partridge: About your condition.
- Amelia Shotgraven: What condition?
- Laura Partridge: What? You mean, you're not?
- Amelia Shotgraven: Laura, how could you think such a thing?
- Laura Partridge: Well, Amelia, where I come from when a girls says she's in trouble - she's in trouble!
- Laura Partridge: Most people have a picture of their wife and children on their desk, and I don't have a wife and children.
- Edward L. McKeever: I just can't give you any business.
- Laura Partridge: I don't want any business!
- Edward L. McKeever: You don't want any?
- Laura Partridge: Oh, I do! But the way things are, I don't!