The Notorious Landlady (1962)

Kim Novak: Mrs. Carlyle 'Carly' Hardwicke

Photos 

7 more photos

Quotes 

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : To put it plainly, Mr. Gridley, I have a dubious reputation.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : You do?

  [knowing the asking price was 40 pounds] 

  William 'Bill' Gridley : I'll pay you 45 pounds a month.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Not that kind of dubious.

• Flower Woman : You're a lucky woman ma'am, to have such a thoughtful husband.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Oh, he's not my husband.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : No, we just live together.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : First, I'd like to talk to you about signing a hundred year lease.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : That's fine with me if you pay in advance.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke , William 'Bill' Gridley : I like dancing with you.

  [laugh] 

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : You didn't learn to mambo like this in Saudi Arabia.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : No, South America. Student riot.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Hmmm?

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, you had to move something or everything was over.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : I don't expect my country to go to war for me.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : [pretending to be the maid]  In there's the bedroom.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Yeah, that certainly is, isn't it. Is she, your employer, due back soon?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Oh, any bloomin' minute, now!

• William 'Bill' Gridley : Do you sleep in?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : In and out, off and on,

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Catch as catch can.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : You might call it that.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : Look, Mrs. Hardwicke, I appeal to you as a fellow American. Don't I appeal to you? Huh?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : [hands Gridley the flat keys]  It's your funeral. I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, yes. Mrs. H, you made a wise decision.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : I hope so.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : [pretending to be the maid]  Per'aps it'll be alright to just look.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Good girl.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : But don't get your 'opes up. She won't let you 'ave it.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Oh, isn't this very nice. Hey, immaculate. I guess that's thanks to you. Mrs Hardwicke's lucky to have you. Anybody'd be lucky to have you.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : What do you say we have our first drink up in my remarkable new flat?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Hmm. Jolly good idea. Especially sense you've got the only bottle of Scotch. I found it when I was unpacking your things. They do that in England, you know.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Oh, do they, now?

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : I hope I did this right.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Its impossible for you to do anything wrong.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Why don't we wait and see.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : You're bound to be a very successful diplomat.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, behind every man's success there's a woman like you - if, the man is lucky.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : And what do you know about me? Maybe I could ruin you.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, I'm willing to make allowances. After all, compromise is the cornerstone of diplomacy.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : Tell me, what about you is so dangerous?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Nothing - tonight.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Bill, what will you do at the Embassy?

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Oh, I'll probably spend most of my time getting reservations on ships an planes for VIPs and arrange their visas and I'll be checking tariff schedules on *fascinating* things, like hemp, tennis balls. And then I'll just move on to become Secretary of State. I figure I'm too old to be President.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Oh, well I better hang onto your bed. Someday I can say William Gridley slept here.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : It certainly is convenient, isn't it? Living in the same house. I mean, it saves cab fare and all that.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Here you are. Delivered safely.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : You're dropping me at my door?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Eh-hmm.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, how are you going to get home?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Well, I'll feel my way.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Miles never cared for American food. He never liked anything but Brussel sprouts, kippers or kidney pie.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : Gee, I used to play a little drums when I was in college. Maybe sometime we could - you do this very often at night?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : No, not often.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : I wouldn't mind. I love organ music.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : To me there's something about the tone that's almost like the sound of eternity.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Yeah. Do you know "My Funny Valentine"?

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Here's to living every moment to its fullest - as if its our last.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : Maybe they think we're burning state secrets.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Or, little witches.

• Franklyn Ambruster : Your photographs don't really do you justice.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Well, the lightings not terribly good in police stations.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Men in public office they - they can't afford to be involved in a scandal.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Well, they can if the scandal looks like you.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : You don't want a scandal with me. You see, if your name should ever be linked with mine, it would just...

  William 'Bill' Gridley : If you're worried about the policeman, forget it. It's all taken care of. Diplomatic immunity. You know, it saves you from everything from parking tickets to murder.

• Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : I'm sorry, Bill, I was so looking forward to having a - quiet and pleasant evening alone with you, dinner and all. And later, I - later I - planned on doing something that I - wanted to do since from moment you set foot in this house.

• Miles Hardwicke : It has been six months. Hasn't it Carly. Tell me, haven't you missed the more pleasant aspects of marriage?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Not more than I missed them when we were together.

  Miles Hardwicke : Come off it, Carly.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : You're hurting me!

  Miles Hardwicke : I meant to. I think I like you better when you are frightened.

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Go off me, Miles.

  Miles Hardwicke : Struggling, you know, only makes it all the more interesting.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : What are you doing?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : I'm taking a bath.

  William 'Bill' Gridley : Could you explain why you're taking a bath at a time like this?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Because I feel - *dirty*.

• William 'Bill' Gridley : How did you wind up in London?

  Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke : Oh, I came to Europe on a tour. One of those all-expense deals. It'd been a dream of mine ever sense I heard my first foreign accent. We had a ball everywhere. Rome, Madrid, Paris. And then, we came to London.