Speak Easily (1932)
Thelma Todd: Eleanor Espere
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Quotes
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Eleanor Espere : Tell me, Timmy. Have you ever seriously thought of marriage?
Professor Post : Yes... that's why I'm single.
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Eleanor Espere : I think I know what the Professor wants. Does it go something like this?
[begins dancing]
Professor Post : That's something like it. Only there should be more sensuosity of the hips. Such as.
Eleanor Espere : Oh, you mean like this! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...
Professor Post : Now that is authentic.
Eleanor Espere : Uh-huh.
Professor Post : But it would be much more effective - if you were in the nude.
James : Professor, Professor. That's out. No nudes!
Professor Post : But, James, it was done so in Athens.
James : Yeah, they might get away with that in Athens. That's a college town!
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Eleanor Espere : The Sunrise Supper Club. Say, I put that saloon on it's feet. Made it New York's hottest night spot. And when I first went there, it was a Speak Easy!
Professor Post : Speak easy?
Eleanor Espere : Yeah, Speak Easy.
Professor Post : Speak easy? You have unconsciously committed a solipsism. You should purify the verb and say: Speak easily.
Eleanor Espere : Speak Easily?
Professor Post : Speak easily.
James : It's here. It's here! It's here!
Professor Post : Did something arrive?
James : I'll say it has. The title for our show: Speak Easily.
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Eleanor Espere : I got legs.
[hikes up her skirt]
Professor Post : I assumed as much.
Eleanor Espere : Assume nothing! Say, get an eyeful of this!
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Eleanor Espere : Don't be sill! And I was thinking, that I would give you the key to my apartment . So, that when you felt like it you could just run up and we could - have a cup of tea?
Professor Post : Very well. If I should ever feel the need of a cup of tea.
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Eleanor Espere : [enters wearing a negligee] Well, I'm back again, Timmy.
Professor Post : You wanna take a bath?
Eleanor Espere : [laughs] You can crack wise, can't you.
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Eleanor Espere : Timoleon! Timoleon! We've got an engagement. And you're going to have to do plenty of explaining.
Professor Post : I am fully aware of the fact that the events of the past few minutes have not been of a strictly conventional order. Therefore I feel it necessary to clarify a situation which otherwise might be filled with doubt. This I will do through the medium of a much-quoted, but pungent phrase: "Nuts to you!"
Eleanor Espere : Oh! Oh!
[gasps and runs off]
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Professor Post : Oh, what finishing school did you attend?
Eleanor Espere : Uh, Notre Dame.
Professor Post : Notre Dame? Notre Dame is not co-educational.
Eleanor Espere : Uh, heh, well, I was very young, and you know...
[she changes the subject]
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Professor Post : [after Eleanor imitates an ancient Greek dance] Now, that is authentic.
Eleanor Espere : Uh, huh.
Professor Post : But it would be much more effective if you were in the nude.
James : [Falling off the piano stool] Professor, professor! That's out - no nudes.
Professor Post : But, James, it was done so in Athens.
James : Yeah, they might get away with that in Athens --- that's a college town.