Penthouse (1933)
Myrna Loy: Gertie Waxted
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Quotes
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, I've been stupid, very stupid.
Gertie Waxted : Well, of course. You're a man.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : [while dancing] Music is certainly a wonderful thing. I meet you, and five minutes later you're in my arms.
Gertie Waxted : Do you have to have music?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I don't know. Do I?
Gertie Waxted : I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate and degrade me.
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Gertie Waxted : So you're the man who put a grand piano in a girl's vanity case.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, is that news all over town?
Gertie Waxted : Don't worry. I heard you were all right. You didn't demand down payment.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, don't you count on that. If I give you anything, I'll demand payment.
Gertie Waxted : [Bats eyelashes] I hate to be in debt.
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Gertie Waxted : Say, I'm hungry!
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, why didn't you yell?
Gertie Waxted : I didn't want to spoil your beauty sleep.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, thoughtful as well as alluring, eh?
Gertie Waxted : Alluring?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, you doubt it?
Gertie Waxted : Well, I did last night. I didn't exactly have to fight for my honor. A few more weeks of this and I'll be out of condition. Say, are you still in love with someone, or are you just decent?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Maybe I think you're decent.
Gertie Waxted : A girl who comes into a man's apartment at night?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, you might have come here just to look at the Chrysler Building.
Gertie Waxted : That must have been it.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I'm going to take a shower. I'll be with you in just a minute.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I'm going out and shock the butler.
[Gets out of bed]
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[last lines]
Gertie Waxted : I can't marry you. I'll ruin you with all your friends. Why, I'm not even a lady.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're not, huh? Well, you'll do till a lady comes along.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I'm afraid you think I'm taking advantage of you.
Gertie Waxted : I'm afraid you won't!
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Gertie Waxted : Well, that's life in the big city. Where do we go from here? Of course, I'll stay here till dawn if you want me to. But, I'd whole lot rather go somewhere and cook a dish of eggs.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Do you want me to take you home?
Gertie Waxted : Your home or my home?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Anywhere you like.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, then, your place is out. How 'bout mine? You know, I've got some eggs at my place that are just longing to be scrambled by you.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I hate to keep an egg waiting. Let's go.
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Gertie Waxted : Here it is.
[Hands Jack a key]
Gertie Waxted : The Oklahoma apartments.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Yes, I know it.
Gertie Waxted : Apartment 26A. Now, you'll find a suitcase in the closet, my clothes are in the bureau. Bring a, oh well, bring two of everything.
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Gertie Waxted : Oh, bring anything and a couple of hats.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, I'm not going to bring you any hats. I don't want you to go out at all.
Gertie Waxted : [Teasingly] Please, Mr. Durant.
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Gertie Waxted : Well, I'll take a chance and stick with you.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're a peach.
Gertie Waxted : [Seductively] Am I?
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Gertie Waxted : So, you're going to drink, eh? Because I'm a double-crosser you're going to drink. Well, I didn't know I was that important to you.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're not.
Gertie Waxted : You can make a tramp out of yourself after I'm gone, if you want to. But you stay cold sober until you hear what I have to say. The trouble with you is you've mixed with gyps and double-crossers and two-timers until you don't believe anybody anymore. Just because your girl ditched you, you think we're all the same.
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Gertie Waxted : I didn't want Murtoch to plug you when you went into his apartment. So, I called him up and asked him to meet me in a speakeasy. I kept him there until I thought you were safe.
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Gertie Waxted : I knew. That was one of the things I knew I knew.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're the strangest girl I've ever met.
Gertie Waxted : You're a new one on me, too.
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Gertie Waxted : I want you to know this. There aren't any fences around me, as far as you're concerned.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : It's a long shot, a hundred to one.
Gertie Waxted : I'll take a chance.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You sure you want to do it?
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Gertie, you're the grandest girl in the world.
Gertie Waxted : I'd rather be the cutest!
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Gertie Waxted : Tell me Layton, as pal to pal, did you like her?
Layton : Well, she never struck me. Oh, I beg your pardon, Madame. I mean she always seemed pretty and very nice; but, she never did appeal to the beast in me.
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Jackson Durant : You know, I've got some eggs at my place that are just longing to be scrambled by you.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I hate to keep an egg waiting. Let's go.'
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Jackson Durant : If I give you anything, I'll demand payment.
Gertie Waxted : I hate to be in debt.
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Jackson Durant : You may be betting your life.
Gertie Waxted : When I bet, I bet all.