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Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, and Franchot Tone in Nice Girl? (1941)

Robert Benchley: Prof. Oliver Wendall Holmes Dana

Nice Girl?

Robert Benchley credited as playing...

Prof. Oliver Wendall Holmes Dana

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  • Jane Dana: [Tasting her soup at the dinner table] Oh, it's hot!
  • Sylvia Dana: [to Nancy, who's blowing on her soup] One does not blow on one's soup.
  • Nancy Dana: Oh, doesn't one?
  • Oliver Dana: Well, there are several schools of thought in the art of soup cooling. There are the blowers, the fanners, the diluters with ice water, and the wait-til-it-coolers. Now I belong to the old school -- the toughies. We take our soup straight and if it burns us, we just laugh it off, see?
  • Oliver Dana: [to Jane] Speaking as an authority, I'd say you were the nicest girl in the world.
  • Jane Dana: I'm afraid I'm not very sophisticated.
  • Oliver Dana: Sophisticated? Heh, now you are being young. Real sophistication, dear, is just another name for good taste. Sophistication isn't doing, it's knowing.
  • Nancy Dana: Hector, I found out what men really are. Apes. All of them. Apes. After today, I will look upon all men with impunity.
  • Oliver Dana: First I'd look up impunity in the dictionary.
  • Jane Dana: [Crying on her dad's shoulder] Oh, dad, I did something so stupid. So cheap. I threw myself at him and he didn't even kiss me. He didn't even try.
  • Oliver Dana: [Smiling with relief] Why, the bounder!
  • Oliver Dana: What this town needs is a good five cent scandal!
  • Oliver Dana: [Talking to himself as he writes at his desk] This is the thesis of my exegesis. Thesis of my exegesis? Exegesis... treatise. This is the thesis of my treatise.
  • Oliver Dana: There's only one rule in this house, Mr. Calvert -- all jokes are funny.
  • Oliver Dana: Anything wrong?
  • Jane Dana: Well, why, Dad? You notice a change in me?
  • Oliver Dana: Oh, no sudden change. Of course, since the day when I used to walk the floor with you, you have grown up a little.
  • Sylvia Dana: Father, you really should do something about that child.
  • Oliver Dana: What, lock her up? We tried that with you. By the way, whatever became of that butcher boy with adenoids?
  • Cora Foster: Oh, he's still got 'em.
  • Nancy Dana: [to Sylvia] One does not read one's book when one's at the dinner table.
  • Sylvia Dana: Father, speak to Nancy.
  • Oliver Dana: Hello, Nancy.
  • Oliver Dana: Well, I wouldn't say that your homecoming went unnoticed. And you must be prepared to have a few eyebrows raised at you. But what's a little gossip when those who count know the truth.

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