Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Chester Morris: Bill Legendre Jr.

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• Bill Legendre Jr. : Give me that key. Give me that key!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : You're afraid. You're afraid of yourself because you know you love me!

  Lil Andrews : Oh, am I?

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, you're afraid you're going to take me in your arms. You're afraid you're gonna kiss me!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Is that so?

  Lil Andrews : Oh, why don't you do it?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Keep away from me, I'm warning you.

  Lil Andrews : Why don't you do it!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Keep away from me!

  Lil Andrews : You don't dare stay here! You don't trust yourself!

  [Bill slaps Lil across the face] 

  Lil Andrews : Oh! Do it again! I like it! Do it again!

  [Lil throws her arms around Bill. He wrestles with her and beats her. Lil lies whimpering on the floor] 

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Are you all right Red?

  [Bill picks her up, lays her down on the bed and walks back to the door, still finds it locked] 

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Will you please give me that key?

  [still whimpering, Lil places the key down her cleavage] 

• Lil Andrews : I suppose I'm just a cross-eyed, half-witted, hunchback, crippled!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Well, you'd get off much better with Gaerste if you were.

  Lil Andrews : What do you mean?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Darling, he's a narrow-minded, straight-laced, old do-do.

  Lil Andrews : Yeah, well, he's a man, isn't he?

• Lil Andrews : Mr. Legendre, is there something the matter with me?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Something the matter with you? Why no! Why do you ask?

  Lil Andrews : Well, you always avoid me at the office and whenever I want to help you - you send me away and get somebody else.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : [laughs]  Well, I'll tell you the trouble, Red. You're, eh, you're too pretty and I don't trust myself.

  Lil Andrews : Oh, Mr. Legendre, do you honestly think I'm pretty?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Yes. Too darn pretty, altogether.

• Lil Andrews : These months in the office have been wonderful. Why, gee, I can remember every word you've spoken to me. Every look.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Great scott, have you been mooning around all this time with that nonsense in your mind?

• Lil Andrews : Listen to me, I'm on your mind just as much as your on mine.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : What do you mean?

  Lil Andrews : Why, when we're at the office - and you send for me to take a letter, do you know what happens?

  Bill Legendre Jr. : No.

  Lil Andrews : Before you even begin, you look me over - all over.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : You have the reddest hair I've ever seen.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Don't you believe me?

  Irene : I don't know what to believe. We've been sweethearts so long, been such pals. Now it's all over.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : It's not all over, darling. Oh, don't let this thing smash up our lives.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Red, we've got to snap out of it, both of us!

  Lil Andrews : But, why? We can see each other. You can come to my place anytime!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : No, I won't do that.

  Lil Andrews : Nobody will ever know about it! Please!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : I won't, Red.

  Lil Andrews : Listen, tomorrow night, say you'll come tomorrow night. Listen, ten o'clock... Alright then, say you'll come. Say it!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Alright, I'll come.

• Lil Andrews : Oh, no Bill. Don't make me go! I love you so! If you knew how much I loved you.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Love? Why don't you call it by it's right name?

  Lil Andrews : Let me stay. I'll do everything you tell me to do. I'll be just what you want me to be.

  Bill Legendre Jr. : There's only one thing you could be. You've only got one filthy idea in your whole rotten make up.

• Bill Legendre Jr. : Rene, if you ever need a friend, you'll - you'll call on me, won't you

  Irene : Why, of course, Bill. And you can call on me, too, for anything.

  Lil Andrews : Horsefeathers!

  Bill Legendre Jr. : Now, look here, Red.

  Lil Andrews : Aw, she gives me a pain in the teeth! Trying to hang onto you when you're through with her!

  Irene : You won't have him long! You caught him with sex. But, sex isn't the only thing in life and it doesn't last forever and when it's gone you'll lose him! Because then he'll want love! And love is one thing you don't know anything about and never will!

  [storms out] 

  Lil Andrews : Why, that dirty little cat!