Quotes from Penthouse (1933)
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant:
[while dancing] Music is certainly a wonderful thing. I meet you, and five minutes later you're in my arms.
Gertie Waxted: Do you have to have music? Jackson 'Jack' Durant: I don't know. Do I? Gertie Waxted: I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate and degrade me. |
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Gertie Waxted:
Say, I'm hungry!
Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Well, why didn't you yell? Gertie Waxted: I didn't want to spoil your beauty sleep. Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Oh, thoughtful as well as alluring, eh? Gertie Waxted: Alluring? Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Well, do you doubt it? Gertie Waxted: Well, I did last night. I didn't exactly have to fight for my honor. A few more weeks of this and I'll be out of condition. Say, are you still in love with someone, or are you just decent? Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Maybe I think you're decent. Gertie Waxted: A girl who comes into a man's apartment at night? Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Well, you might have come here just to look at the Chrysler Building. Gertie Waxted: That must have been it. |
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Gertie Waxted:
So you're the man who put a grand piano in a girl's vanity case.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Oh, is that news all over town? Gertie Waxted: Don't worry. I heard you were all right. You didn't demand down payment. Jackson 'Jack' Durant: Well, don't you count on that. If I give you anything, I'll demand payment. Gertie Waxted: [Bats eyelashes] I hate to be in debt. |
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[last lines]
Gertie Waxted: I can't marry you. I'll ruin you with all your friends. Why, I'm not even a lady. Jackson 'Jack' Durant: You're not, huh? Well, you'll do till a lady comes along.
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Warner Baxter
in
Penthouse
(1933)
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