Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Walter Connolly: Timothy Borden

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• Mr. Borden : Well, Michael, there seems to be a touch of spring in the air.

  Mike : Yes sir, that's something even the poor people can enjoy.

• Mr. Borden : [Seeing Mary eat an apple for her dinner]  Are you on a diet?

  Mary Grey : Yes, but against my wishes.

• Higgins : You were very quiet after you fell down the stairs, sir. You're last request was that we put Miss America in the guest room.

  Mr. Borden : Miss America? Did somebody else come home with us?

  Mary Grey : No, I'm Miss America.

• Mr. Borden : You see, it's my birthday.

  Mary Grey : [Cynically]  Birthdays are all right, but you never get over the first one.

• Mr. Borden : Higgins, I wonder why people work as hard as they do and for what?

• Seal Expert : [At the Central Park Zoo]  Don't get them seals wrong, lady. They have more intelligence than most of the carnivorous, except the dog.

  Mary Grey : That so?

  Mr. Borden : Anyhow, they seem to be having a nice time.

  Mary Grey : I can't imagine it would be much fun, swimming around all day in a fur coat.

  Seal Expert : That's were you're wrong again, lady. These ain't fur seals at all.

  Mary Grey : They ain't?

• Mr. Borden : Say, you don't think that I followed you over here?

  Mary Grey : Why should you? What are you? A flatfoot?

  Mr. Borden : Eh, oh, you mean a detective. Oh, no, no.

  Mary Grey : Well, if you are, I haven't done anything.

• Mary Grey : [Sitting a on park bench in Central Park]  You sound like one of them Fifth Avenue cadavers.

  Mr. Borden : Fifth Avenue what?

  Mary Grey : Those people that live over there...

  Mr. Borden : How do they sound.

  Mary Grey : Oh, they're always squawking. You'd think the country was going to the dogs.

  Mr. Borden : Well, they've got their problems too.

  Mary Grey : What problems? I used to stand at the Plaza at night and watch them go home. They look like a lot of wax dummies that have eaten an overdose of sour pickles.

• Mr. Borden : We could go some place and eat.

  Mary Grey : Where?

  Mr. Borden : Well, there's the Flamingo Club.

  Mary Grey : The Flamingo? You mean that very elegant cafe over on...

  Mr. Borden : Well, people must have a wonderful time there, it costs so much... I mean it. I'd love to go.

  Mary Grey : So would I. But, I'd just as soon go to the automat and keep the change.

• Mr. Borden : Where did you come from?

  Mary Grey : From upstairs.

  Mr. Borden : I know, but, how did you get upstairs?

  Mary Grey : Well, don't you remember?

  Mr. Borden : In a way I do, but, in a way I don't.

• Tim Borden : I don't know anything about the *pump* business?

  Mr. Borden : You'll learn. There's really nothing to it.

• Mr. Borden : Say, the family were being very nice to you when I came down.

  Mary Grey : They nearly scared me to death.

• Mary Grey : Well, it's pretty simple. Take something from somebody they don't want and they want it more than ever.

  Mr. Borden : You've got a lot of common sense.

  Mary Grey : You've lost yours, but, it'll come back.

• Mr. Borden : It's like having an old car, one you've got used to. You can either junk it or try to salvage it.

  Mary Grey : You're still in love with your wife, aren't you.

  Mr. Borden : Well, no. But, you see, after a certain time, when love goes away, something else is left in its place which is even more important.

• Mr. Borden : You sure I'm not keeping you from an engagement?

  Mrs. Borden : No. I was going to stay home tonight.

  Mr. Borden : You're all dressed up.

  Mrs. Borden : What? This? It's just a little informal thing I wear around.

  Mr. Borden : Well, it's very pretty.

  Mrs. Borden : It, eh, shows off my figure, doesn't it?

  Mr. Borden : It shows a lot of it, if that's what you mean.

• Mr. Borden : [Looking at the loud tie his secretary has given him for his birthday]  Well, that's one bright spot on a gloomy day.

• Higgins : Aren't you feeling well, sir?

  Mr. Borden : I guess I'm all right.

  Higgins : Perhaps its a touch of spring fever.

  Mr. Borden : Perhaps.

  Higgins : I felt it myself this afternoon, just walking in the park.

  Mr. Borden : What park?

  Higgins : Central Park, sir.

  Mr. Borden : Oh, yes, I forgot it was there.

• Mr. Borden : I've got to get these shoes off before I go another step. They're killing me. I wonder who invented shoes?

  Mary Grey : If the world were carpeted with leather we wouldn't have to wear any shoes. We could go barefoot.

• Mr. Borden : I guess there's no fool, like an old fool.

• Mrs. Borden : Do you know what I've been doing in my spare time?

  Mr. Borden : What?

  Mrs. Borden : Learning to Rhumba.

  [laughs] 

  Mrs. Borden : I knew you'd be pleased.