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Boy Meets Girl (1938)

James Cagney: Robert Law

Boy Meets Girl

James Cagney credited as playing...

Robert Law

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  • Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: But don't you think he'd be good for Happy? He's an outdoor man.
  • Robert Law: So's the guy who collects my garbage.
  • Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: You won't drink too much in Vermont, will you Mr. Law?
  • Robert Law: Only the heady wine air that has no dregs.
  • Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: 'Cause you're crazy enough without drinking.
  • Robert Law: Talk about scope sweep. Boy, what a set up!
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: What a love story!
  • Robert Law: A great love story.
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: A baby brings them together, splits them apart, brings them together again,
  • Robert Law: Boy meets girl.
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Boy loses girl.
  • Robert Law: Boy gets girl.
  • C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday: Boy, I think you got something. Let's try it out on B.K. while it's hot.
  • Larry Toms: Wait a minute. You can't act with a baby. They'll steal every scene.
  • Robert Law: Are you selling motherhood short?
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Come on!
  • Robert Law: Come on!
  • Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: Don't make fun of me.
  • Robert Law: Fun? Well, I've never been so touched in all my life. Susie, I feel purified.
  • Robert Law: Susie, can we be Godfathers?
  • Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: Do you mean it?
  • Robert Law: I mean it. Just you say "yes", and see how quick I'll get Hellinger to print: "Benson and Law Godfathering In June".
  • Rossetti: I've got Larry Toms waiting in your office to hear your story. Come on.
  • Robert Law: We haven't got any stories.
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Tell him one anyway.
  • Robert Law: Okay. Once there was a fairy princess who lived in a broken down castle, on a broken down river, with a broken down aunt. In fact, she was a broken down princess.
  • Robert Law: I was a promising young novelist. Almost won the Pulitzer Prize in nineteen thirty, and now in nineteen thirty eight, I'm writing dialogue for a horse.
  • Rossetti: Larry! Larry, take a breath. The boy's mean no harm. Exhale.
  • Robert Law: I smell carbon exhaust.
  • Larry Toms: One more crack...
  • C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday: "Tiger Tamer". There it is, right there in the corner. "Tiger Tamer" by J. Carlyle Benson and Robert Law.
  • Robert Law: That's a forgery! Benson, we've been framed.
  • J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Why you...
  • C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday: This is the last prank you boys will ever play.

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