Lily Collins credited as playing...
Marla Mabrey
- [Hughes alone with the drunk and flirtatious Marla]
- Howard Hughes: You make an old guy courageous, Marla...
- Marla Mabrey: Is that a compliment, Howard ?
- Howard Hughes: You're not calling me Mr. Hughes... Makes me feel so much younger.
- [Marla together with other contract actresses at a ballet studio]
- Sally: So, did you get caviar ?
- Marla Mabrey: Yes, I got caviar, but I still haven't met him. Do you have any idea how many houses he has for actresses under contract ?
- Sally: I think something like... 14.
- Mamie Murphy: [smiles] More like... 22.
- Bella: [smiles] More like 26.
- Marla Mabrey: [repeats together with the others in disbelief] 26!
- Lucy Mabrey: So, who was it that said..."They also serve who only stand and wait"?
- Marla Mabrey: John Milton on his blindness.
- Lucy Mabrey: Good for you, smart cookie.
- Lucy Mabrey: You know, they say in Hollywood, a girl can get in trouble for having a case of the smarts.
- Lucy Mabrey: Not just in Hollywood, honey.
- Howard Hughes: You think it's crazy to trust your gut instinct?
- Marla Mabrey: There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood lead on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries