Indiscreet (1931)

Gloria Swanson: Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent

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Quotes 

• Jim Woodward : Besides...I didn't think you noticed it.

  Geraldine Trent : I tried not to--for some time.

  Jim Woodward : Oh, ho--after all, my dear: a man must live!

  Geraldine Trent : I've often wondered why it was necessary in some cases.

• Jim Woodward : Let's start this New Year's right.

  Geraldine Trent : I am starting it right, with myself.

• Jim Woodward : Why do you insist on spoiling a perfectly good New Year's Eve?

  Geraldine Trent : I haven't! It's hardly midnight. You won't lack company--you didn't earlier this evening...

  [she plucks a hair from his shirtfront] 

  Jim Woodward : Gerry! \ That's not like you.

  Geraldine Trent : [pointing to her head]  No. \I'm a brunette.

• Jim Woodward : I'm really serious. I really mean it this time, Gerry!

  Geraldine Trent : Mean what?

  Jim Woodward : Well, marriage...and...and...all that.

  Geraldine Trent : No; I'm afraid there's be, uh, too little marriage and too much "all that."

• Geraldine Trent : It might work if you married all of us, the chorus girl, the widow...

  Jim Woodward : Who told you?

  Geraldine Trent : Oh, it's a secret, nobody knows but me, and The Associated Press

• Geraldine Trent : I'm beginning to understand you, Jim. You're not bad, you're just not very bright.