Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Bette Davis: Valerie Purvis

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• Valerie Purvis : Do you mind very much, Mr. Shane, taking off your hat in the presence of a lady with a gun?

• Valerie Purvis : For me, you'll go through something that'll be worst than death. Because, you'll always remember me. The one woman you couldn't take for both love and money. The one woman who handed you double-cross by double-cross, right up to the end. 'Cause now you've found a woman *can* be as smart as you are. Someday, you'll find one who'll be smarter!

• Valerie Purvis : I remember you. You're the other man.

  Ted Shayne : That's me, sister. I've often been named as the other man.

• Ted Shayne : You didn't really want to see either of us or you wouldn't be running out of your hotel.

  Valerie Purvis : Oh, I had to leave there. There was a man.

  Ted Shayne : There probably always will be men where you are, Child.

• Milton Ames : Miss Purvis has got trouble. She wants us to take care of it.

  Ted Shayne : She came to the right place.

  Valerie Purvis : Can you help me?

  Ted Shayne : If anybody can, we can. What's your trouble?

• Ted Shayne : Your English friend called on me today. It seems he wants me to find him some old French Horn.

  Valerie Purvis : I suppose if somebody paid you for it, you'd try and find Santa Claus.

  Ted Shayne : Honey, if they paid me enough, I would!

  Valerie Purvis : Well, you'd have as much chance at finding him as you would at finding me with an old French Horn. If there is any such thing.

• Valerie Purvis : You know, we could mean something to each other. Really! If 5,000 didn't mean so much to you.

  Ted Shayne : Darling, that 5,000 is only for the delivery of some silly old saxophone I don't even know exists. But, I do know about you. Maybe, after I've cleared up a few murders, you and I could have a lot of fun.

• Ted Shayne : That reminds me, that trumpet of Roland's, what did you do with it?

  Valerie Purvis : Didn't I tell you? I lost it the other day when I was taking a bath. Yes, you know, I was blowing away on it and my hands were soapy and I blew so hard that it slipped right out of my grasp.

• Valerie Purvis : I thought you cared about me?

  Ted Shayne : I do, Valerie. But, I won't play the sap for you.