House of Women (1962)

Barbara Nichols: Candy Kane

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• Warden Frank Cole : Your record says you used to be a stripteaser.

  Candy Kane : Oh, that sounds so inelegant. When I was a stripteaser they used to call it bein' a extra-dysiast.

  Warden Frank Cole : You mean an "ecdysiast".

  Candy Kane : Well, I never did know how to pronounce it. But they say I sure did know how to do it.

  Warden Frank Cole : I'm sure you did.

• Candy Kane : [after telling the parole board she doesn't want to be paroled]  You see, I've been in and out of jail ever since I was 11 years old, which proves that I didn't have much of a mind to begin with. And do you know why I've done so much time? The paroles kept bringing me back to each and every joint.

  Mrs. Leighton : There must be *some* good about parole.

  Candy Kane : Only it's got so many "don'ts" attached to it... you're licked before you start.

  Mrs. Bartlett : Uh, just what do you mean, Candy?

  Candy Kane : Well, to begin with, Mrs. Bartlett, you got a parole officer checkin' up on everything you do. *Everything*. How would you like to have another woman keeping cases on you? So's you have to get her permission even to go to the powder room. You ladies can buy yourselves a drink any time you want to. You can get swacked if you want to. Me, I'm out on parole. I'm afraid to buy myself a can of beer, 'cause they might arrest me and throw me back in the cooler. If I get a job, I gotta tell my parole officer, and she tells the man who wants to hire me that I'm an ex-con, so he don't want any part of me. I'm not allowed to mingle with ex-cons. Who's gonna take me out? The Vanderbilts, or the Rockefellas? I gotta get permission to marry or to die. And even then they're liable to turn me down. Without meaning any disrespect, I would suggest that you take your parole and sh...

  Zoe Stoughton : [shocked]  Candy!

  Candy Kane : Give it to somebody who really wants it. Me, I've had it. And believe me, it stinks.