Easy Living (1937)

Jean Arthur: Mary Smith

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• Mary Smith : You don't have to get mad just because you're so stupid.

• John Ball Jr. : You know, there's something awfully phony about this.

  Mary Smith : You're just beginning to find that out?

• Mary Smith : Don't you like this one either?

  J.B. Ball : I do not. It looks like a salt shaker.

  Van Buren : Well, we think its very recherché.

  J.B. Ball : That's the trouble with it.

• Mr. Louis Louis : Miss Smith, I'm a man like this, I don't beat around de bush to come in the back door. I tell you, this is where you belong and this is where you have to be.

  Mary Smith : Well, I'm perfectly willing.

• Mr. Louis Louis : A beautiful young girl like you has got to have a background. Dis is what you call a background!

  Mary Smith : I should say it is.

  Mr. Louis Louis : No matter where you look, you never find another background that goes so far back!

• Mary Smith : I owe for the week!

  Mr. Louis Louis : Vell, vell, ve'll pay it!

  Mary Smith : Vhy? Eh, why? Why?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Why? I'll tell you why. I don't beat around de backdoor to come down in de corn chutes!

• Mary Smith : I mean your father.

  John Ball Jr. : Did I say he was dead?

  Mary Smith : Well, well, you said: "Poor old Father."

  John Ball Jr. : Well, you don't have to be dead to be "poor old father." You don't even have to be poor

  Mary Smith : I suppose you don't have to be old, either.

  John Ball Jr. : Not so, apparently.

  Mary Smith : Well, I wouldn't go around saying "Poor old father," squeezing sympathy out of people.

• Mary Smith : [reading the Wanted Ads]  "Cocktail waitress. $12 and tips."--Oh, must have curves.

  John Ball Jr. : Well, you've--got them, haven't you?

  Mary Smith : Well, thank you, Johnny.

  John Ball Jr. : "Let us teach you tattooing." No.

• Mary Smith : Some people develop sooner than others, that's all. But when those others are developed, why, they're just as well developed as the others, you see what I mean. It's like, now, you take--you take a chicken. Well, a chicken reaches maturity at--well, whenever it is--but, on the other hand, a horse--oh, a horse takes much longer!

• Mary Smith : You know, I think I'm kinda dumb sometimes, myself.

  John Ball Jr. : You're awfully sweet.

  Mary Smith : Do you think so, Johnny?

  John Ball Jr. : Yes.

• [last lines] 

  Mary Smith : Johnny, this is were we came in.

• Mr. Louis Louis : [points to icebox]  Gasbox.

  Mary Smith : What?

  Mr. Louis Louis : They tell me it works with gas, but I don't believe it.

• Mary Smith : [after a fur coat falls on her head while riding an open air double-decker bus]  Say, what's the big idea, anyway?

  Hindu Man on Bus : Kismet.

• Mr. Louis Louis : Please do me a favor and I'll take a peek, huh?

  Mary Smith : At what?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Dis way, I'll show you. Dis way. After you. Dis way. Dis way.

• Mr. Louis Louis : What are you paying now? I mean rent. Rent!

  Mary Smith : $7.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Seven dollar. Sev - 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6--7?

  Mary Smith : Yes, with breakfast, one egg.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Let me see. $7. Seven times seven. 56 minus--My dear young lady, could you make...

  Mary Smith : Not seven times seven, Mr. Louis. One times seven. Seven dollars a week.

  Mr. Louis Louis : A week?

  Mary Smith : With breakfast.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, one egg. $7. a week with a gymnasium. You driving a hard bargain, my dear young lady. $7 a week!

  Mary Smith : But, Mr. Louis, I...

  Mr. Louis Louis : It is yours!

  Mary Smith : But I don't want...

  Mr. Louis Louis : It is yours! You want breakfast, you got it!

  Mary Smith : But, look, I...

  Mr. Louis Louis : I-I want you here. One egg, Two eggs. Three eggs! Ostrich egg! What do I care? I'll send a truck and move you immediates.

• Mary Smith : Oh, you mean you want me to boost your hotel?

  Mr. Louis Louis : That's the exact word! I could not have said that in 10 years. Boost it in the right place and--soon!

  Mary Smith : Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Louis.

  Mr. Louis Louis : And loud!

  Mary Smith : And loud.

  Mr. Louis Louis : And how!

  Mary Smith : And how.

• John Ball Jr. : [Mary is broke at the Automat]  I'll put the nickels in when I get paid and you can pay me back sometime.

  Mary Smith : I'm not that hungry.

  John Ball Jr. : Don't be a sucker, sister. That beef pie is a wow!

• Mary Smith : You know, he did say something about telling somebody something or other; but then he said he shouldn't mention names and he was sorry or something. I don't know.

  John Ball Jr. : Who?

  Mary Smith : Mr. Louis, you know, I think the guy's crazy.

  John Ball Jr. : No-no-no-no-no. What name did he mention that he said you shouldn't mention?

  Mary Smith : Well, he said - B-B-Bull.

  John Ball Jr. : Bull?

  Mary Smith : Yeah.

  John Ball Jr. : That's funny. My name's Ball.

• Mary Smith : Oh, hello. Hello, Santa Claus.

  J.B. Ball : How do you do? How are you getting along?

  Mary Smith : All right.

  Mr. Louis Louis : You know each other, eh? Well-well-well-well.

• John Ball Jr. : That's one of the finest suppers I ever supped. What? That's not right. Yes, it is to. Supped.

  Mary Smith : You know, it's just like Arabian Nights or something. Except you don't look much like a Prince Charming.

• John Ball Jr. : I remember there was a fellow in college called Underdunk who had the longest...

  Mary Smith : Oh, shut up.

  John Ball Jr. : Come to think of it, it wasn't Underdunk. It was Overdunk.

• Mr. Louis Louis : Did you see the papers?

  Mary Smith : Yes, I saw the headline.

  Mr. Louis Louis : It says that certain party is tottering. And every time he's tottering, I am tittering.

  Mary Smith : Oh, did something happen to your hotel, Mr. Louis?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, if he's in the soup, the hotel Louis is blewy!

• Mary Smith : What sables?

  Mr. Louis Louis : My dear young lady, we are all alone. Will you please cut the tragedy.

  Mary Smith : Why, I haven't got any sables?

  Mr. Louis Louis : I am trying to give you my friendship and she plays Puss Around The Corner!

• Bank Employee : [sarcastically]  Oh, you've got to see Mr. Ball. Would you like to see him in person?

  Mary Smith : No. No, in the movies!

• John Ball Jr. : Why'd you take the coat?

  Mary Smith : I didn't want to! But your father kept saying I shouldn't be a smarty and that I shouldn't know all the answers and, besides, you don't know what a fur coat means to a girl who never even had a tippet.

• Mary Smith : Now, wait a minute, Santa Claus.

  J.B. Ball : Huh?

  Mary Smith : What's the matter with it? Is it hot?

  J.B. Ball : Well, I don't know. I've never worn one.

  Mary Smith : What kind of fur is it anyway?

  J.B. Ball : Zebra. Anything else you want to know?

• John Ball Jr. : Have I seen you somewhere?

  Mary Smith : I don't think so. I didn't get to the Waiter's Ball this year.

  John Ball Jr. : Oh, neither did I. Uh, were you at the Junior League dance?

  Mary Smith : Were you in Mrs. Allison's on Thursday?

  John Ball Jr. : No, I couldn't get away...

  Mary Smith : Oh, too bad. It couldn't have been nicer.

  John Ball Jr. : Really? Were you in Palm Beach in February?

  Mary Smith : Were you in Saint Moritz Christmas?

  John Ball Jr. : No, I couldn't make that either.

  Mary Smith : Well, I couldn't make it either, so I guess we haven't met.