Wedding Rehearsal (1932)

Roland Young: The Marquis of Buckminster

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Quotes 

• [Reggie arrives at the Stokeshire/Roxbury home to propose] 

  Butler : Lady Rose Mary's in the music room, and Lady Mary Rose in the morning room.

  Marquis of Buckminster : Thank you.

  [to himself] 

  Marquis of Buckminster : Heads, morning room; tails, music room... Morning room.

• Marquis of Buckminster : Oh, all right, I'll marry somebody.

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : "Somebody"! Do you know how many girls there are for you to choose from?

  Marquis of Buckminster : Roughly 6,000,000, aren't there?

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : Exactly 7 young women who are fit to bear our name, and your children.

  Marquis of Buckminster : Oh...

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : That is, in England.

  Marquis of Buckminster : That's right, dear, buy British, yes. Well, come on, tell me the worst.

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : My first choice, the Roxbury twins.

  Marquis of Buckminster : Both of them?

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : Either of them.

• Harry : Now tell me, my boy, what do you think about marriage?

  Marquis of Buckminster : [tying his bow tie]  Marriage? Well now, um, have you ever bought a tie?

  Harry : A tie?

  Marquis of Buckminster : Yes, you know, you see a tie in a shop window, and you think, "That's the tie I've longed for always. And I've got to have it."

  Harry : But we're talking about marriage, my boy.

  Marquis of Buckminster : Yes, I know. Well... you go into the shop, and the price is a bit bigger than you expected, but you get it, and you put it on and look at it in the shop mirror, and it's the exact, delicate, discreet shade you always wanted - and it's yours!

  Harry : Well, what about it?

  Marquis of Buckminster : What about it? Yes, well, then you get it home, and you look at it in the daylight. And it's not the shade you wanted at all; it's the one color in the world you loathe. But you've bought it, and you've paid for it... and it's round your neck!

  Harry : Hmph, you can change it.

  Marquis of Buckminster : Not if it's the marriage tie, you can't!

  Harry : Well, you may be right, dear boy... but somewhere there's a tie that suits you, that goes with everything. You've probably put it away in a drawer and never even looked at it. One day you give it away to the butler or someone, and when you see it on him, you realize it's the one tie in the world for you, and somebody else has got it!

  Marquis of Buckminster : Which girl do you mean?

  Harry : We're talking about, uh, ties, my boy...

• Marquis of Buckminster : Hutchie! Hutchie, I believe you're the tie I gave to my butler!

  Miss Hutchinson : Tie?

  Marquis of Buckminster : Oh, you know, darling... thing that goes round your neck.

  [Takes her arms and puts them around him] 

• Marquis of Buckminster : [looking at the list of eligible women]  Oh, Granny, after all, it's not fair. Now take Audrey Ferraby, for instance. You couldn't expect me to live with that nose.

  Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster : That nose comes straight down from the Conqueror!

  Marquis of Buckminster : I know it does, darling, but, well, it comes down such a long way