When Ladies Meet (1941)
Robert Taylor: Jimmy Lee
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Quotes
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Bridget Drake : Oh, Jimmy, willI stick to that chair?
Jimmy Lee : Well, it depends on how sticky you are.
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Bridget Drake : I bet you can't guess what we've been doing?
Jimmy Lee : I thought that's what we weren't supposed to guess.
Bridget Drake : Oohh, Jimmy! We ve went down to Greenwich Village to look at some pictures. And I said to Walter, as long as we've gone this far, we might as well go the whole way.
Jimmy Lee : You said that to Walter!
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Jimmy Lee : Women are like eggs, darling. When they're good, they're good. When they're not - phooey!
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Rogers Woodruf : It's been nice meeting you, Mr. Grant.
[shakes hands with Lee]
Jimmy Lee : The name is Lee.
Rogers Woodruf : Oh, I'm so sorry - natural association: Grant and Lee. One always thinks of them together.
Jimmy Lee : Heh, heh, that's right. Only Lee surrendered.
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Mary Howard : Oh, darling, why did it have to come to this? We were such friends.
Jimmy Lee : We were never friends, and you know it. Why, I was so nuts about you, I'd of proposed to you the first time I ever met you if I had anything to offer.
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Jimmy Lee : You know me - I'd follow her nibs into a blast furnace.
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Jimmy Lee : She's a lady. A perfect lady.
Bridget Drake : Oh... well bring her in anyway.
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Bridget Drake : When's your book coming out, Mary?
Mary Howard : In a couple of months.
Walter Del Canto : What's it about?
Jimmy Lee : [interrupting as Mary is about to answer, with the description being like how Mary would like her life to be] Uh, it's about a girl - noble, fine, high principled - is'n love with a married man. Great love, the real thing! He goes for her like a steam roller. But does she try to back away from him? Not in the least. She goes for him... hook, line and sinker.
Walter Del Canto : And how does it end?
Jimmy Lee : She sinks!
Mary Howard : [glaring angrily at Jimmy] I'm working on the ending now.
Bridget Drake : [excitedly, then stopping mid-sentence when she realizes what she is about to say] I'm crazy to read it, Mary! I usually don't like your...
Mary Howard : [comforting Bridget by cradling the nape of her neck] Ah, darling.
Bridget Drake : [embarrassed] Oh my. Isn't it hot.
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Bridget Drake : I do hope you won't be bored, Jimmy.
Jimmy Lee : [sarcastically] Bored? Why, literary receptions are my very life's blood.
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Jimmy Lee : [to Clare about Mary] You see, I'm the dust under her feet, not the cream in her coffee.
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Jimmy Lee : Oh, Mary, we've been so darn happy bouncing around together. Think what fun it would be for keeps.
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Jimmy Lee : You insult me - I was raised in a tent.
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Mary Howard : Mr. Woodruf and I were working on my book.
Jimmy Lee : Oh, well you're likely to wreck your eyesight working in this subdued light, Mr. Woodruf.
[he staggers over to the switch and turns the lights on]
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Jimmy Lee : Say, what I wanna know is why I'm out in the barn all alone. I'm house-broken.
Bridget Drake : Because I haven't any other rooms, idiot.
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Jimmy Lee : Well, I'll be off to my little cell. If lightning strikes me, at least I'll be alone. That'll be a lucky break for you.
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Jimmy Lee : I... uh, I... uh got lost and came in to find to where I was, and where do you think II am? Right here.
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Jimmy Lee : Someday, you're gonna go sailing off in a pink balloon and bump smack into Pike's Peak.
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Jimmy Lee : Yeah, there she is - the world's greatest female lady authoress.
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Bridget Drake : Mmm, going to a nightclub to write a last chapter?
Jimmy Lee : Or to begin a first one.
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Jimmy Lee : When a girl says that, it means she's got a mash on another guy.
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Jimmy Lee : Sorry I can't take you for a ride, Woodruf.
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Jimmy Lee : There's another one in there.
Clare Woodruf : Another one?
Jimmy Lee : Yeah. The one I'm nuts about. Always have been and always will be.
Clare Woodruf : Well, tell her who I am and how I got here. I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
Jimmy Lee : Ah, but you don't understand. You see, I'm... I'm the dust under her feet not the cream in her coffee.
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Clare Woodruf : But why me? Why didn't you pick one of those beautiful sweet young things, you know, the kind she'd be jealous of.
Jimmy Lee : Naw, she knows I wouldn't go for anyone like that.
Clare Woodruf : What?
Jimmy Lee : I mean, you're just the type she would be jealous of.
Clare Woodruf : Ah, ha, that's better.
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Bridget Drake : What's the matter with you, Jimmy, are you tight?
Jimmy Lee : No, certainly not. That's why I'm so nervous.
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Jimmy Lee : Oh, baloney. That big literary talk he gives you is nothing but a, a gimmick.
Mary Howard : A gimmick? I'm afraid I'm not up on your vocabulary.
Jimmy Lee : Nothing but a line. He's nuts about you for the same reason I am, and it's not because your brainy.
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Clare Woodruf : Wait a minute. Did you by chance plan to get lost so this girl would see you with me.
Jimmy Lee : Whaaat?
Clare Woodruf : Aha, you did.
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Bridget Drake : Have you ever tried to make something out of nothing, Mrs. Clare?
Jimmy Lee : Un, she's working on me now, Bridgie.
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Jimmy Lee : Tell me honestly, Mary, are you in love with Woodruf?
Mary Howard : Yes, I am. More than I ever thought I could be.
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Mary Howard : I suppose this will give you an excuse and annoy me all through dinner.
Jimmy Lee : Don't you want me to stay?
Mary Howard : No, I don't, dear.
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Jimmy Lee : Hello, Mary.
Mary Howard : Hi, Jimmy.
Jimmy Lee : I uh, I uh got lost and came in to find out where I was and where do you think I am? Right here.
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Bridget Drake : Jimmy said that Mrs. Clare is some kind of cousin.
Mary Howard : Ohhh? You didn't tell me you had a cousin, Jimmy.
Jimmy Lee : Well, there're cousins and cousins. Heh. She's the kind you don't talk about.
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Jimmy Lee : You know, the trouble with a lot of men is they're too smart. They choose to think that the simple things in life like a home and kids and a fireside is all a lot of copy board stuff, meant for children and morons.
Rogers Woodruf : Yes. I know that now.
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Mary Howard : What are you doing here?
Jimmy Lee : Oh, I was just taking a look at the rest of the house, to get the lay of the place before I go to sleep in case of fire. You know, I was in a house once that caught fire in the middle of the night and people came out of the strangest places.
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Jimmy Lee : So, I thought she oughta know, before things went any further, just... just what she's letting herself in for. That's why I wanted her to meet your wife. So she could learn what this was doing to one of the finest women I ever met.
Rogers Woodruf : You can leave Clare out of this.
Jimmy Lee : All right, but I gotta hand it to ya, Woodruf, you're a darn lucky picker of women.
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Jimmy Lee : It seems to me when it comes to causing humiliation and hurt, you've got the shoe on the wrong foot, don't you think?