Design for Scandal (1941)

Walter Pidgeon: Jeff Sherman

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Quotes 

• Jeff Sherman : I want to get something to amuse a little boy on a train.

  Snack Bar Counterman : Yes, indeed. Something for a little boy, eh?

  Jeff Sherman : Yeah.

  Snack Bar Counterman : What age?

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, about so high.

  [brings palm to just above his waist] 

  Snack Bar Counterman : Eight. Yes sir. Right here.

  [motions to shelves of toys behind him] 

  Snack Bar Counterman : Everything to make him happy and ruin your trip. Take your choice, sir.

  Jeff Sherman : Well, you've been here a long time, you suggest something.

  Snack Bar Counterman : Chloroform. Either that or a good slap in the kisser.

• Judson M. Blair : Well, you don't think I'm gonna let her get away with it, do ya?

  Jeff Sherman : Well, what are you gonna do, commit suicide?

  Judson M. Blair : No, I'm not gonna commit suicide.

• Judson M. Blair : I'm not worrying, but how can you be sure you can do it?

  Jeff Sherman : Well, she's a woman, isn't she?

  Judson M. Blair : Yeah, and an intelligent one. Not the kind you're used to.

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, is that so?

  Judson M. Blair : And exceedingly smart, too.

  Jeff Sherman : Well, she's a woman though. Every man has his price and every woman has her Achilles heel, and all you got to do is find that vulnerable spot.

  Judson M. Blair : But this Miss Achilles may not have a heel.

  Jeff Sherman : Yeah, well she's gonna get one then.

  Judson M. Blair : A heel?

  Jeff Sherman : A heel!

• Jeff Sherman : Dotty, how would you like to take out a marriage license with me?

  Dotty : [Throws her arms around him]  Babeeeee!

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, no, no. Wait a minute. I didn't say anything about using it. This is pure business.

  Dotty : I might've known.

• Jeff Sherman : Whoa, ho, ho. I found a skeleton in her closet.

  Judson M. Blair : [Smiling excitedly]  No?

  Jeff Sherman : Yeah.

  Judson M. Blair : Now you're talking. Is it a bad one?

  Jeff Sherman : Mmm, ho, ho.

  Judson M. Blair : Well, come on, what is it?

  Jeff Sherman : She sculpts.

  Judson M. Blair : She what?

  Jeff Sherman : She sculpts. You know, makes with those marble things.

  Judson M. Blair : Oh, I see. And I suppose you're going to pose for her or something, huh?

• Jeff Sherman : Listen, pal, ex-wifee's got you right by the seat of the pants. Now, do you want out, or don't ya?

  Judson M. Blair : I want out.

  Jeff Sherman : [Deep mumbling-like baby talk]  Okay, cuddle baby. Out is what you're gonna get.

  Judson M. Blair : But keep the cost down.

• Jeff Sherman : I said my name is Sherman.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Your name is Sherman. Now I understand why they feel the way they do down in Georgia.

• Jeff Sherman : Just at that age, isn't he?

  Jane : Oh, yes. He's very big for his size.

• Jeff Sherman : What's the matter? Don't you think you ought to have your head sculpt?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : I think I ought to have it examined for standing here talking to you.

• Dotty : Why wouldn't she come?

  Jeff Sherman : Dotty, the first thing a smart man learns is never to worry why a woman changes her mind.

  Dotty : An old Chinese proverb, huh?

  Jeff Sherman : Yeah.

  Dotty : I don't think you're slipping.

  Jeff Sherman : No?

  Dotty : No. I think you're numb from the shock of falling.

• Jeff Sherman : You still think you're gong to smear her with scandal, do ya?

  Judson M. Blair : I'm going to dunk her in it - like a donut.

• Jeff Sherman : [When the police come to arrest him]  She wouldn't do a thing like that.

  Dotty : Honey, the first thing a smart man learns is to never worry about why a woman changes her mind.

• Jeff Sherman : [Questioning Cornelia Porter who's in the witness box]  Cornelia, will you marry me?

  Walter Caldwell : I object.

  Jeff Sherman : I object to you.

  Walter Caldwell : Well, that's too bad. Your honor, I object to that question.

  Judge Graham : On what grounds?

  Walter Caldwell : It's incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant. And there's been no groundwork laid for the question.

  Jeff Sherman : It's not irrelevant, and there's been a lot of groundwork laid for it.

  Walter Caldwell : Your honor, objected to on the further grounds of calling for a conclusion by the witness and not testimony as to a fact.

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, how do you know? After all, it could be a fact.

  Walter Caldwell : It could not.

  Judge Graham : I'll decide that. Now, sit down. Sit down!

• Jeff Sherman : [to Cordelia who's in the witness box]  Did you say to the defendant, Sherman, that you felt in your heart that he was trustworthy?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Yes.

  Jeff Sherman : And did you believe him when you sat on the cliff in the moonlight, under Point St. Martin's Lighthouse, and looked at him, and he said, 'Darling, I adore you' - did you believe him?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Then.

• Jeff Sherman : Then why, on the night of July the eleventh this year, at the hour of 12:30, did you say to me in the establishment known as Frankie's Cape Cod Cellar Deluxe, that you love me?

• Jeff Sherman : Cornelia, you've got to listen to me. I'm crazy about you.