Leslie Howard credited as playing...
Basil Underwood
- Marcia West: [to Basil] Will you shut up?
- Basil Underwood: What?
- Marcia West: You meddlesome old nuisance, who asked you to interfere with our affairs, anyway?
- Henry Grant, Jr.: She's absolutely right!
- Basil Underwood: Well, I like that! Why, you - you...
- Marcia West: You leave Henry out of this! If he'd had any sense he would have realized that I'd have forgotten all about you in two weeks. I was in love with Clark Gable last year, and if I could get over him, it's a cinch I could get over you.
- Basil Underwood: Who's Clark Gable?
- Marcia West: [to Henry] He doesn't know who Clark Gable is.
- Henry Grant, Jr.: Hmmm. I do.
- Basil Underwood: Alright Joyce, I'm reaching for my gun.
- Joyce Arden: Wait, I believe the trigger's at the rear end.
- Marcia West: This is Miss Kane.
- Gracie Kane: I know you, you wear blue polka-dot shorts!
- Basil Underwood: Are there no reformatories in California?
- Basil Underwood: Joyce, I'm a desperate man. If you don't open this door I'll kill myself.
- Joyce Arden: Good! Let's have blood and destruction!
- Gracie Kane: Oh, Mr. Actor Man! Where're you going?
- Basil Underwood: To someplace where there are no dear little children
- Gracie Kane: I know something you don't know, I know something you don't know.
- Basil Underwood: She knows something we don't know.
- Digges: It can't be very important or we'd know it.
- Marcia West: What right has she to talk that way to me?
- Joyce Arden: Practically none. Wives have so few rights nowadays.
- Marcia West: Your wife?
- Basil Underwood: Yes, my wife...
- [looking at Joyce]
- Basil Underwood: ... wonderful.
- Basil Underwood: A strange situation. In order to make myself a better man, I've got to behave like a blaggard.
- Joyce Arden: I'm through, you hear me? I'm through.
- Basil Underwood: How modest of you to admit that, sweetheart.
- Joyce Arden: No, I mean with you.
- Joyce Arden: After all, Washington did free the slaves.
- Basil Underwood: What's that got to do with it?
- Marcia West: I think that everyone should act the way they feel, don't you?
- Basil Underwood: Yes, uh, I do. Yes, yes.
- Marcia West: Of course, a lot of people think I'm crazy. Do you?
- Basil Underwood: No, no, no. A little strange, perhaps, but, uh...
- Marcia West: I thought perhaps, that... that someday when you're old and forgotten...
- Basil Underwood: What? Me... me forgotten?
- Marcia West: And when you feel that awful loneliness that comes to those who've been admired and then are now forgotten - that then, perhaps, you'll remember tonight. And be grateful to me.
- Basil Underwood: She doesn't love me anymore. I wonder why.
- Digges: Oh, women are changeable creatures, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Down in the street below, a great carnival of people... happy together. And up here, one man, miserably alone.
- Digges: I'm here, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Oh, you're always here, Digges.
- Digges: Yes, I thank you, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Digges, why is it no one loves me?
- Digges: But I love you, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Don't confuse the issue. Am I really such a bad fellow as she thinks?
- Digges: Oh, please, sir. Don't let's go into that now.
- Basil Underwood: There's loyalty for you.
- Digges: Yes sir, we get minus 200 for Philadelphia, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Philadelphia?
- Digges: The alderman's wife, sir.
- Basil Underwood: You can't count that. She didn't complain.
- Digges: Yes, but the alderman did, sir.
- Basil Underwood: Oh, all right. Have it your own way. Philadelphia, minus 20.
- Digges: Sorry, sir - Philadelphia, minus 200.