Dinner at Eight (1933)

Madge Evans: Paula Jordan

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• Paula Jordan : My poor Larry. He's dead, Carlotta.

  Carlotta Vance : And nothing can be done. That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Even the young can't do anything about it.

• Max Kane : [entering Renault's room]  Am I buttin' in?

  Paula Jordan : Not at all. I was just going. Goodbye.

  [Paula exits] 

  Max Kane : Pearls in your oysters.

• Paula Jordan : I'm all right now. Thank you.

  Carlotta Vance : Of course you are, my dear. Now Ernest won't notice a thing.

  Paula Jordan : I don't want to see Ernest. I don't want to see anybody.

  Carlotta Vance : Yes, you do, dear. But I want to tell you one thing. Don't ever let him know anything about this... 'cause if there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life work.

  Paula Jordan : I can't ever love another man.

  Carlotta Vance : No, of course you can't, dear. But if you should, you know, someone like Ernest... he won't want to know anything about your past... as long as you keep it in the past.

• Oliver Jordan : [Millicent is reaching her boiling point with stress]  Millicent, darling, would you mind awfully if I didn't go to the theatre tonight? I'm feeling pretty rotten. If I could just go to bed...

  Millicent Jordan : [voice shaking in disbelief]  What's that you're saying?

  Oliver Jordan : I said I'm feeling pretty rotten. I'm up against a business thing...

  Paula Jordan : Oh, daddy...

  Millicent Jordan : [explodes]  Oh, a business thing! At a time like this, you talk to me about a business thing, and feeling rotten! This is a NICE TIME to say you're feeling rotten! You come to me with your--

  [to Paula] 

  Millicent Jordan : And YOU, whimpering about Ernest; some little lovers' quarrel! I'm expected to listen to Ernest, and business and headaches, when I'm half out of my mind! Do you know what's happened to me? I've had the most ghastly day anybody ever had. No aspic for dinner, and Ricky in jail, and Gustave dying, for all I know! And a new butler tonight, and that Vance woman coming in, and having to send for crabmeat. Crabmeat! And now, on top of everything else... the Ferncliffes aren't coming for dinner! They call up at this hour, the miserable cockneys. They call up to say they've gone to Florida. FLORIDA! And who can I get at this hour? Nobody! I've got eight people for dinner; eight people isn't a dinner! Who can I get?

  [to Oliver] 

  Millicent Jordan : And you come to me with your idiotic little-- *I'M* the one who ought to be in bed, *I'M* the one who's in trouble! You don't know what trouble is, either of you!

  [Millicent storms off] 

• Paula Jordan : I'm awfully jealous of the play. Are you really going to act in it?

  Larry Renault : Oh, my agent's bringing Bauman up here this afternoon. I might as well sign the contract. Bauman is as good a Producer as there is, I suppose.

  Paula Jordan : And I"ll have to sit in the audience and watch you make love to another woman. Well, I hope it flops. That's what I hope.

• Paula Jordan : Well, I don't give a hoot what people think!

• Larry Renault : What do you want with me?

  Paula Jordan : I love you.

  Larry Renault : You're young and fresh and I'm burned out.