George Macready credited as playing...
Ballin Mundson
- Ballin Mundson: [referring to his knife cane] It is a most faithful and obedient friend: it is silent when I want it to be silent, but talks when I want to talk.
- Johnny Farrell: Is it that your idea of a friend?
- Ballin Mundson: That is my idea of a friend.
- Johnny Farrell: You must lead a gay life.
- Johnny Farrell: I thought we agreed that women and gambling didn't mix.
- Ballin Mundson: My wife does not come under the category of women, Johnny.
- Gilda: If you're worried about Johnny Farrell, don't be. I hate him!
- Ballin Mundson: And he hates you. That's very apparent. But hate can be a very exciting emotion. Very exciting. Haven't you noticed that?
- Gilda: You make it sound...
- Ballin Mundson: There is a heat in it, that one can feel. Didn't you feel it tonight?
- Gilda: No.
- Ballin Mundson: I did. It warmed me. Hate is the only thing that has ever warmed me.
- Ballin Mundson: Now then, before we were interrupted, I believe we were about to drink a toast. So: disaster to the wench who did wrong by our Johnny. No, Gilda? You won't drink to that?
- Gilda: Why not? Disaster to the wench!
- Ballin Mundson: Look your best, my beautiful. This will be the casino's first glimpse of you.
- [He kisses her]
- Gilda: I'll look my very best, Ballin.
- [Looks at Johnny]
- Gilda: I want all the hired help to approve of me. Glad to have met you, Mr. Farrell.
- Ballin Mundson: His name is Johnny, Gilda.
- Gilda: Oh, I'm sorry. Johnny is such a hard name to remember and so easy to forget.
- [In a breathy voice]
- Gilda: Johnny. There. See you later, Mr. Farrell.
- Ballin Mundson: You're a child, Gilda. A beautiful greedy child. And it amuses me to feed you beautiful things because you eat with such a good appetite.
- Ballin Mundson: Did you teach Gilda how to swim, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: I taught her everything she knows, Ballin. Does that satisfy you?
- Ballin Mundson: You're still dressed.
- Gilda: Yes.
- Ballin Mundson: Anything wrong?
- Gilda: Everything's wonderful. But, I told you, zippers throw me.
- Ballin Mundson: May I help?
- Gilda: Thank you.
- Ballin Mundson: You'll have a maid in the morning.
- Gilda: Will she be old and ugly?
- Ballin Mundson: Those are your orders.
- Gilda: I think that's good business, to surround yourself with ugly women and beautiful men.
- Ballin Mundson: Women are funny little creatures, Johnny.
- Johnny Farrell: Why, I don't know much about 'em.
- Ballin Mundson: Odd things are important to them.
- Johnny Farrell: Really?
- Ballin Mundson: [to Gilda] I want to have look at you in your costume before you go. I see you're going to carry a whip. Have you warned Johnny?
- Ballin Mundson: It amuses me to feed you beautiful things, because you eat with such a good appetite.
- Ballin Mundson: They won't let you use your own dice.
- Johnny Farrell: I didn't think it showed.
- Ballin Mundson: A man who makes his own luck, as I do, recognizes in others.
- Ballin Mundson: This I must be sure of, that there is no woman anywhere.
- Johnny Farrell: There's no woman anywhere.
- Ballin Mundson: Gambling and women do not mix.
- Johnny Farrell: Those are the very words I use myself.
- Gilda: Did you tell him what I'm doing here, Ballin?
- Ballin Mundson: No, I wanted to save that as a surprise too.
- Gilda: Hang on to your hat, Mr. Ferrell.
- Ballin Mundson: Gilda is my wife, Johnny.
- Gilda: Mrs. Ballin Mundson, Mr. Farrell. Is that all right?
- Johnny Farrell: Congratulations.
- Ballin Mundson: Oh, you don't congratulate the bride, Johnny. You congratulate the husband.
- Johnny Farrell: Really? Well, what are you supposed to say to the bride?
- Ballin Mundson: You wish her good luck.
- Johnny Farrell: Good luck.
- Gilda: Thank you, Mr. Farrell. My husband tells me you're a great believer in luck.
- Ballin Mundson: We make our own luck, Johnny and I.
- Gilda: I'll have to try that sometime.
- Johnny Farrell: It looks like one thing; then, right in front of your eyes, it becomes another thing.
- Ballin Mundson: Well, you haven't much faith in the stability of women, have you Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: That's right.
- Ballin Mundson: One wonders who the woman was who brought our Johnny to this pretty past, don't one Gilda?
- Gilda: One does. Let's hate her. Shall we, Ballin?
- Ballin Mundson: Let's. Shall we, Johnny?
- Johnny Farrell: Let's! Now, that I'll drink to.
- Ballin Mundson: I bought her, Johnny. Just as I bought you.
- Johnny Farrell: Well, she knows that, doesn't she?
- Ballin Mundson: That's just it. Money doesn't mean very much to Gilda. If she should become restless? I'm mad about her, Johnny. Mad.