Joel McCrea credited as playing...
David Phelps
- Mrs. Phelps: I used to watch David and Robert's photographs, just as I did their weight. I felt that I wanted a record of the development of their little minds and souls, as well as, their bodies. So, they were photographed every three months until they were 12 years old.
- Hester: Good heavens! What an awful lot of photographs.
- David Phelps: Now mother will be getting out the old family album. I remember one of me sitting in a shell.
- Christina Phelps: In the nude?
- Christina Phelps: Oh, Dave, it looks as though this experiment's really coming out right. Aren't you happy?
- David Phelps: You bet I am. Say, how about a slight demonstration of affection?
- [Christina gives him a long kiss]
- David Phelps: Mmm. Not bad for a cold blooded scientist.
- Hester: Hello. You're David and Christina, aren't you? I'm Hester.
- David Phelps: You're not. Well. Look, Chris. Here's Hester, who's going to marry my brother, Rob.
- Christina Phelps: Isn't she lovely.
- [reaches out to hold Hester's hands]
- Hester: I think you're dears, both of you.
- [kisses Christina on the lips]
- David Phelps: I hope you're going to behave. You ought to be ashamed - when you know how much my mother means to me.
- Christina Phelps: Your mother! Your mother! Always your mother!
- Mrs. Phelps: Now, isn't your mother your best friend?
- David Phelps: You bet you are, Mommy.
- Mrs. Phelps: Oh, how long its been since you've called me that. Bless you my dear, dear boy
- [leans down to David lying in his bed and kisses him on the lips]
- David Phelps: The whole purpose of this visit was to bring you and mother together. To prove to mother that a lady scientist may not be as bad as she sounds.
- Christina Phelps: You won't listen. You can't even hear me.
- David Phelps: I can hear you and a worst line of hooey I've never listened to in all my life.
- David Phelps: What do you expect me to say?
- Christina Phelps: I don't know. I've never known. That's been the thrill of it.
- David Phelps: If you'd only leave things be, they'll be all right, you may believe it or not.
- Christina Phelps: I can't believe it and I can't leave things be.