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Millie Drake:
[about Kit] That silly young boy she's been carrying on with has been called into the navy, and she must immediately become a young sailor's bride... of 42.
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Miriam Hopkins
(as Millie Drake)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Belle Carter:
[to Kit] Tell me, how is your new book coming along?
Kit Marlowe: Well, I write and I write, and I still don't like it. Belle Carter: But, at least when you do turn one out, it's a gem! None of this grinding them out like sausage... Belle Carter: [she realizes that she has just insulted Millie and pauses with embarrassment] I suppose I could cut my throat. Millie Drake: [clearly offended] There's a knife on the table!
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Miriam Hopkins
(as Millie Drake)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
[responding to a question about Millie's daughter Deidre] Well, she's really partly mine anyway. I was at the hospital when she was born. As a matter of fact, she gave me her first smile. Her mother said it was gas.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
Cheer up, there's always what's left of the ice.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
Deidre, come out from behind that screen.
[a pause] Kit Marlowe: Deidre, come out, or do you want me to come back there and drag you out. Deirdre Drake: [emerging from behind screen] How did you know I was there? Kit Marlowe: My dear, I was hiding behind screens before you were born.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
I know... my fatal beauty drives men mad.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
I'd better get out of here, Millie, before I do something I'll be very sorry for.
Millie Drake: Yes, go! And if you think I want you to come back ever you're wrong! Well? why don't you go? Kit Marlowe: In just a minute. [She puts down her parcels, crosses the room, grabs Millie by the shoulders and shakes her violently, then shoves her so she falls on the sofa] Kit Marlowe: Sorry. [She picks up her things and exits, leaving Millie throwing a tantrum]
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
If you'd just look at Millie's activities as confession of weakness, an admission that there's something essentially lacking in her nature, you'd find it a little touching and love her.
Preston Drake: You sound like one of Millie's books.
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John Loder
(as Preston Drake)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
It's late, and I'm very, very tired of youth and love and self-sacrifice.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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Kit Marlowe:
Millie remembers the same things I do, that's important. For instance, she's the only person I know, who still remembers when I used to be called Chunky.
Preston Drake: I'd think you wouldn't want to remember that. Kit Marlowe: But one does. Funny, one does.
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Bette Davis
(as Kit Marlowe)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
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