BUtterfield 8 (1960)

Elizabeth Taylor: Gloria Wandrous

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• Gloria Wandrous : I think I'll get cleaned up and do my nails.

  Mrs. Fanny Thurber : Yes, sharpen them.

  Gloria Wandrous : For you, Mrs. Thurber, I would.

• Gloria Wandrous : Mama, face it: I was the slut of all time!

• Gloria Wandrous : You act like a man who's expecting his wife back in town.

  Weston Liggett : How did you know? Today?

  Gloria Wandrous : I always knew. Someday.

  Weston Liggett : Here I was, trying to find a way to - look, Gloria, I have to spend at least tonight with her.

  Gloria Wandrous : A good night's sleep will be the best thing for you.

• Gloria Wandrous : I spent the night with Steve's girlfriend, Norma.

  Mrs. Wandrous : Ah, isn't that nice! She knows a boy whose girlfriend is that unselfish!

  Mrs. Fanny Thurber : That's a girlfriend that won't have a boyfriend long.

  Gloria Wandrous : A compliment from you, Mrs. Thurber?

  Mrs. Fanny Thurber : I must have said it wrong.

• Gloria Wandrous : Command performances leave me quite cold. I've had more fun in the back seat of a '39 Ford than I could ever have in the vault of the Chase Manhattan Bank.

• Gloria Wandrous : Terrible, isn't it, Steve? I say "yes" too much when I shouldn't and you say "no" too much when you shouldn't.

• Norma : By the way, for the record, what did happen to your dress?

  Gloria Wandrous : Well, it's a funny thing. One minute it was there and the next minute it wasn't.

  Norma : Much like your virtue I presume.

• Gloria Wandrous : He made me so damn mad. He left me money, he actually left me *money*!

  [pause] 

  Gloria Wandrous : Well what would you have done?

  Steve Carpenter : I don't know. You see my work is designed so that people *will* leave me money.

• Gloria Wandrous : BUtterfield 8? Hi, it's Gloria. Any messages?

• Steve Carpenter : I hear he's a lush.

  Gloria Wandrous : A rumor of little mind. We did have a drink last night.

  Steve Carpenter : One?

  Gloria Wandrous : A dozen maybe.

• Gloria Wandrous : Can I help with anything?

  [removes her mink, wearing only a slip] 

  Gloria Wandrous : Could I help you with anything? Housework?

  Steve Carpenter : You put that coat back on.

  Gloria Wandrous : Why?

  Steve Carpenter : Half-dressed women make it difficult to concentrate.

  Gloria Wandrous : Well, then don't!

  [caresses Steve] 

  Gloria Wandrous : Don't think of me as a woman. After all, we're just like brother and sister.

• Gloria Wandrous : I always said I'd try anything once.

  Steve Carpenter : Ever try common sense?

  Gloria Wandrous : Only in desperation.

• Steve Carpenter : What does your analyst say about all this?

  Gloria Wandrous : Oh, I only tell Dr. Tredman what I think he ought to hear.

  Steve Carpenter : Oh, that's very intelligent.

  Gloria Wandrous : If I were intelligent, I wouldn't need a psychiatrist.

• Gloria Wandrous : Steve, listen to old Gloria. The greater the sacrifice you ask a woman to make for you the more she knows you love her. Honestly!

• Gloria Wandrous : What's my mother gonna think if I show up dressed like this?

  Steve Carpenter : Your mother knows everything about you.

  Gloria Wandrous : Yeah, that may be so, but we never admit it. I'm still her innocent little girl. And she's my dear, sweet cookie-baking mother.

  Steve Carpenter : So go home, give her an innocent smile and - have a cookie.

• Steve Carpenter : What's with you and Yale? Always Yale.

  Gloria Wandrous : It's the last college left.

  Steve Carpenter : What?

  Gloria Wandrous : I started with Amherst, and I worked my way through the alphabet to Yale. I'm stuck there. Of course, I could work backwards again.

• Gloria Wandrous : I hate to drink and run. To the three of us.

  Steve Carpenter : One for all, and all for one.

  Norma : The question is: which one?

• Norma : Just remember that suit has led a sheltered life. It shocks easily.

  Gloria Wandrous : Then it's time it had a little adventure.

• Weston Liggett : *Now* I get it. You pick the man. He doesn't pick you.

  Gloria Wandrous : Finally! Why I'm not teaching logic at Columbia, I'll never know.

  Weston Liggett : One moment. Postgraduate course. You also drop the man when you want to?

  Gloria Wandrous : And without a parachute.

• Gloria Wandrous : Did BUtterfield 8 call?

• Gloria Wandrous : You couldn't match what I've already turned down. 180-foot yacht in the French Riviera. Van Goghs in every room, genuine-type Van Goghs. Paid for by this man with pocket money. Annuities for life. Jewelry.

• Mrs. Wandrous : [to Gloria]  You're getting circles under your eyes, dear.

  Mrs. Fanny Thurber : Too much reading.

  Gloria Wandrous : Dear Mrs. Thurber.

  Mrs. Fanny Thurber : Well, how's church?

  Gloria Wandrous : Why don't you go sometime and find out?

• Weston Liggett : What do you want?

  Gloria Wandrous : Just what I'm getting.

  Weston Liggett : Oh, now, come on, doll face.

  Gloria Wandrous : You must go to some very bad plays.

• Gloria Wandrous : Mr. Liggett, put your *assets* away.

• Weston Liggett : You're all alike, aren't you? Play tough.

  Gloria Wandrous : I'm not "like" anyone. I'm me.

• Weston Liggett : Gloria, you're wonderful.

  Gloria Wandrous : "Wild" is the word.

  Weston Liggett : First genuine wildness I've come across in a woman.

  Gloria Wandrous : Have you stopped to think that perhaps you bring out the wildness in me?

  Weston Liggett : With you, who has time to think?

• Gloria Wandrous : Why don't we go on a long trip to faraway places - exploring?

  Weston Liggett : Exploring what?

  Gloria Wandrous : What else? Each other.

• Gloria Wandrous : [Liggett leans in for a kiss]  Drink up before you're too busy to reach for it.

  Weston Liggett : And then it's: go - go - go.

  Gloria Wandrous : Slowly, friend. I have work to do.

  Weston Liggett : Namely?

  Gloria Wandrous : I have three elegant bistros where I'm obliged to be photographed in this dress. Besides, you'll enjoy seeing my good side - first.

• Weston Liggett : He was an inventor. Can you think of anything more useless in a small town like this?

  Gloria Wandrous : Not if he invented a way to get out.

• Gloria Wandrous : The company belongs to my wife's family. My wife is a fact that I can't avoid. She's the center of a spiderweb of family, money, country clubs, and time-killing childish employments.

• Weston Liggett : [reveals a modest sail boat]  She's a real rust bucket. But she's mine.

  Gloria Wandrous : A yacht! You didn't tell me.

  Weston Liggett : Well, it doesn't have any Van Goghs in it; but, I do have two original copies of Playboy magazine somewhere.

  Gloria Wandrous : Let's go aboard and "sail away for a year and a day to the land of the bong trees".

  Weston Liggett : The Owl and the Cat. Come aboard, mate, and sign on! But I warn you, the crew hasn't touched land or seen a woman for three months.

  Gloria Wandrous : Crazy.

• Gloria Wandrous : Where are you bound for, Captain?

  Weston Liggett : Out of frustration - bound for ecstasy.

  Gloria Wandrous : I've heard a lot about ecstasy.

  Weston Liggett : It's everything they say - and more.

  Gloria Wandrous : If you'd kindly show me to my quarters, Captain, you can lift anchor anytime.

• Gloria Wandrous : Liggett, thank you for not calling me "honey" and "babe" and "doll face" anymore.

  Weston Liggett : I couldn't. I don't think of you like that anymore.

• Gloria Wandrous : I don't need you anymore. I have no problems anymore.

  Dr. Tredman : No?

  Gloria Wandrous : I'm in love. I - am in love. I am really in love.

• Gloria Wandrous : Maybe it's too late for marriage; but, it's not too late for love.

• Norma : What are you trying to do to me?

  Gloria Wandrous : Drive you *wild* with desire!

• Gloria Wandrous : Flesh and blood can only stand so much voluptuous torture. You have 30 seconds, buddy-boy.

  Bingham Smith : Gloria, have you gone on the needle?

  Gloria Wandrous : I'm hooked. I am hooked. I'm hooked on you.

• Gloria Wandrous : You can't have everything in life. Be grateful for the few things you do get, no matter where they come from.

  Weston Liggett : The pornographic philosopher! Now, you just sit there like a good tramp should - until I get out of your sight.

• Gloria Wandrous : I took money. Do you know what that makes me?