The Young in Heart (1938)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: Richard Carleton

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• Leslie Saunders : Well, what can you do besides look rather too good-looking?

  Richard Carleton : Well, I... I'm, a champion swimmer, rattling good game of tennis, fair golf, and I rumba like the angel Gabriel.

• Richard Carleton : Don't hydraulic engineers ever rumba?

  Leslie Saunders : Rarely, and not very well.

• Richard Carleton : Do you think people ever change?

  George-Anne Carleton : Not us... ever. We just aren't any good.

  Richard Carleton : I think I am.

  George-Anne Carleton : Don't make me tired.

• Leslie Saunders : Planning to stay long?

  Richard Carleton : I hadn't. Now that I see you again...

  Leslie Saunders : You've never seen me before.

  Richard Carleton : I've seen you all my life, in my dreams.

  Leslie Saunders : That's not a very good line.

• Leslie Saunders : Why come to me?

  Richard Carleton : Well, I was walking along and suddenly an unseen spirit grabbed me by the arm and lead me straight up here to you. It's kismet! Now, you think that means we have to marry each other? If you're not otherwise engaged, of course.

  Leslie Saunders : I do not and I can't make up my mind whether you're a lunatic or merely very young.

  Richard Carleton : I'm neither. I'm just lonely.

• Richard Carleton : Did anyone ever tell you, that you have the most...

  Leslie Saunders : Yes, often.

• Leslie Saunders : We need somebody to sort the mail. Two quid a week. Come back in the morning, eight o'clock.

  Richard Carleton : I'm yours to command! You couldn't make it nine o'clock, could you?

  Leslie Saunders : Eight o'clock.

• George-Anne Carleton : Is she pretty?

  Richard Carleton : Hmm. Comme ci comme ça.

  George-Anne Carleton : Is she intelligent?

  Richard Carleton : She typewrites well.

  George-Anne Carleton : Is she fun?

  Richard Carleton : She's a business gal!

  George-Anne Carleton : Well, there must be something about her for you to take her out.

  Richard Carleton : There is. She's my boss. And it's a very sound policy, my child, to keep in the good graces of one's boss.

• Richard Carleton : The aged are slow, my child; just as the young are foolish and impatient.

• Leslie Saunders : I wonder if you'd have any idea what sort I really am?

  Richard Carleton : Of course I have. Sane. Practical.

  Leslie Saunders : That's right.

  Richard Carleton : Ambitious. Hard working.

  Leslie Saunders : That's right.

  Richard Carleton : Utterly moral.

  Leslie Saunders : Utterly.

  Richard Carleton : Straight on the shoulder.

  Leslie Saunders : Straight as a rivet.

  Richard Carleton : Well, in that case, I should think you'd greatly admire me if I skipped all the approachment and just kissed you without any preliminaries.

  Leslie Saunders : I should not only admire you, I should respect you.

  Richard Carleton : Well, there's something to be said for your philosophy.

  [kiss] 

• George-Anne Carleton : Yes. I know. We're all palsy-walsy. Sit down before I knock you down.

  Richard Carleton : I have to undress myself. Take off my shoesy-woosy.

• Richard Carleton : Take off my own shoesy-woosy.

  George-Anne Carleton : Very considerate of you, Rick!

  Richard Carleton : First, my shoesy-woosy. Then, my socksy-woxsy. Then - my tie-sy-wisey!

• Richard Carleton : Say, don't think - please don't think badly of me.

  Miss Fortune : Why should I think badly of you? You were only being gay and happy and proud, perhaps, of your job. And most of all, young.

• Richard Carleton : Oh, by the way, Sahib, where would you take a young lady to dine?

  'Sahib' Carleton : Savoy, by all means. Soundest cuisine in London. Savoy's the only place to dine a lady. Don't give it another thought.

  Richard Carleton : All right, Savoy it shall be. Oh, but, a couple of quid wouldn't see me through, would it? You couldn't lend me a fiver till next payday, could you?

  'Sahib' Carleton : Ahem, glad to, my boy, but I've always found that borrowing is unsound, both from a financial and a moral point of view. How much money will you get your next payday?

  Richard Carleton : Two pounds.

  'Sahib' Carleton : And from that you expect to pay me back five? Ha. You must see there's no future in such a course of action. Neither a borrower nor a lender be! Why don't you take the lady to the zoo?

• George-Anne Carleton : [Richard is holding the dog in his lap]  Her fluff's coming off on your trousers.

  Richard Carleton : They say if you hold a puppy by its tail, its eyes will pop out.

  George-Anne Carleton : That's guinea pigs.

  Richard Carleton : Oh.