Nana Bryant credited as playing...
Mrs. Benchley
- [first lines]
- Mrs. Benchley: [Reading] "So they set off up the hill, arm in arm, the knight, the dragon, and the boy. The lights in the little village began to go out one by one."
- [Is interrupted by a toy rifle going off]
- Mrs. Benchley: "But there were stars and a late moon as they climbed the downs together."
- [Toy rifle again]
- Mrs. Benchley: Robert, please.
- [Pan to Robert Benchley lying on a raft in the pool, with the toy rifle]
- Robert Benchley: Go on, I can hear in any position.
- [Shoots a dart at a duck decoy in the pool]
- Mrs. Benchley: [Continues reading] "And as they turned the last corner and disappeared from view, snatches of an old song were borne back on the night breeze. I can't be certain which of them was singing, but I think it was the dragon."
- Robert Benchley: Go on, I'm listening.
- Mrs. Benchley: That was the end, and a very lovely end, too.
- Robert Benchley: Yeah, charming, charming. It's funny. No matter which way I aim, I always hit the same duck.
- Mrs. Benchley: Robert, I have a wonderful idea. We'll sell this book to Walt Disney.
- Robert Benchley: Well, you can't. It belongs to your nephew.
- [Looks at rifle]
- Robert Benchley: So does this, too. I wonder what he'd take for it.
- Mrs. Benchley: I mean the idea, for a movie. I'm sure if you went to his studio and suggested it to him, he'd jump at it.
- Robert Benchley: Me suggest a story to Walt Disney? Why, I hardly know him.
- Mrs. Benchley: Well, you hardly knew me when you suggested marriage.
- Robert Benchley: Yeah, look at the trouble I got into. He can't listen to every crackpot with a wild idea.
- Mrs. Benchley: You might be the exception. All you would have to do would be to go to his studio and show him the book.
- Robert Benchley: I wouldn't dream of it!
- Mrs. Benchley: They're always open to new ideas. Get your things on, and stop shilly-shallying.
- Robert Benchley: [Stands up on raft] I am not shillying and I am not shallying. But once and for all, I will not go to the studio. I will not make myself look ridiculous.
- [Falls through]
- Robert Benchley: [Bubbles come out of his mouth] And that's final.
- [last lines]
- Mrs. Benchley: So while you were shilly-shallying, they made the picture. I never knew it to fail. In all the years that I've known you, you've always been too late. Really, Robert, I can't understand why you're forever letting these opportunities slip through your fingers. Anyone would've thought of it in time, months ago. But you...
- [sighs]
- Mrs. Benchley: Well, why don't you say something?
- Robert Benchley: [as Donald Duck] Aw, phooey!
- [quacking furiously]
- Robert Benchley: Phooey!
- [Robert Benchley and his wife are driving to the Disney studio]
- Robert Benchley: It's a wild goose chase, that's what it is. I don't imagine he's out here in the first place.
- Mrs. Benchley: Where else would he be?
- Robert Benchley: You know these movie producers; New York, Saratoga, Palm Beach...
- Mrs. Benchley: Hollywood.