The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Fred Astaire: Guy Holden

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Quotes 

• Egbert Fitzgerald : Guy, you're not pining for that girl!

  Guy Holden : Pining? Men don't pine. Girls pine. Men just... suffer.

• Waiter : Professor Brown, he's a geologist. Him and his wife stopped at the last place I worked. Do you know sir, it was Professor Brown who told me that this sea coast 'round here is really a... an igneous intrusion.

  Guy Holden : You know, you're somewhat of an igneous intrusion yourself.

  Waiter : Oh thank you sir!

• Mimi Glossop : I hope you like what I ordered. I've never had breakfast with two men before.

  Guy Holden : I've tried it. It's no fun.

• Mimi : You?

  Guy : [looking around]  Yes. It's me.

• Guy Holden : You think I'm going to leave you alone with a strange Italian? He might be a tenor!

• Guy Holden : I was chasing you, you shouldn't run away like that.

  Mimi Glossop : Why not?

  Guy Holden : It's bad for my health.

• Guy Holden : Chance is the fool's name for fate.

• Mimi : I don't care what you did as a boy.

  Guy : Well, I did nothing as a girl, so there goes my childhood.

• Egbert Fitzgerald : Oh, what is the matter with you? Are you still moping over that same girl? Why, the world is just full of girls.

  Guy Holden : I know, I know, but not like her. She's music. She's the buzzing of the bees in clover. She's the rustle of the leaves in the trees. She's water lapping on the shore.

  Egbert Fitzgerald : Yes, she sounds like a series of strange noises to me. Well, cheer up Guy, cheer up.

• Mimi Glossop : Please don't ask me to stay.

  Guy Holden : All right, I won't. Don't go, I've so many things to say to you.

  [singing] 

  Guy Holden : Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom when the jungle shadows fall, Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock as it stands against the wall, Like the drip, drip, drip of the raindrops when the summer shower is through, So a voice within me keeps repeating, you, you, you, Night and day you are the one...

• Guy Holden : [singing to Mimi]  There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me, And its torment won't be through, Till you let me spend my life making love to you, Day and night, night and day.

  [dance sequence, Mimi reluctantly then enthusiastically joins in, the music stops, Guy rests Mimi comfortably on the sofa] 

  Guy Holden : Cigarette?

• Aunt Hortense : I think it's much better to have this settled now, at once. And then the poor girl can start a new life.

  Guy Holden : A new life?

  Aunt Hortense : Brand new, she's going to make a clean sweep of the old.

  Guy Holden : I see.

  Aunt Hortense : Yes. Yes and you're the broom.

• Guy Holden : You know, you're the most emotionally unstable girl I've ever met.

• Guy Holden : Say, which one of us is crazy?

  Aunt Hortense : Oh well, it's not me!

  Guy Holden : You know, all of this is a bit of a shock to me.

  Aunt Hortense : Well, your being here is a bit of a shock to Mimi too.

  Guy Holden : Yes, but it's, it's Mimi's own doing.

• Guy Holden : That negligee is charming, charming. From Paris, isn't it?

  Mimi : You ought to know. You've probably seen plenty of them.

  Guy Holden : Well, a few, of course.

  Mimi : Of course.

• Guy Holden : It's not a bad tune, what is it?

  Mimi Glossop : The newest thing over here, it's called "The Continental".

  Guy Holden : "The Continental"? Oh. I like it. It's the second thing I found I'd like to take back home with me. Do you know the words?

  Mimi Glossop : [singing]  A beautiful music, Dangerous rhythm...

• Mimi Glossop : I hope you like what I ordered. You know, I've never had breakfast with two gentlemen before.

  Guy Holden : I've tried it, it's no fun.

• Mimi Glossop : Aren't the shadows on the sand lovely?

  Guy Holden : Yes they are, lovely.

  Mimi Glossop : And the light on the water. The edge of the cloud crossing the moon. Look, it's coming out. Look Guy, it's coming out.

  Guy Holden : It came out.

  Mimi Glossop : Oh, isn't it beautiful?

• Guy Holden : [singing]  Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom, when the jungle shadows fall. Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock as it stands against the wall. Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops, when the summer shower is through. So a voice within me keeps repeating, you you you. Night and day, you are the one. Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. Whether near to me or far, it's no matter, darling, where you are. I think of you, night and day. Day and night, why is it so? That this longing for you follows wherever I go. In the roaring traffic's boom, in the silence of my lonely room, I think of you, night and day. Night and day, under the hide of me, there's an oh such a hungry yearning, burning inside of me. And its torment won't be through, till you let me spend my life making love to you, day and night, night and day.

• Guy Holden : [singing]  It's just like looking for a needle in a haystack.

• Guy Holden : I'm gonna start looking for her. I'll find that girl, Egbert, if it takes me from now on.

  Egbert Fitzgerald : Well, it shouldn't be difficult. After all, there are only 3 million women in London.

• Guy Holden : I still don't know what you're doing down here.

  Mimi Glossop : I came down with my aunt.

  Guy Holden : Isn't that a coincidence? I'm here with my aunt too. Aunt Egbert.

• Guy Holden : Aren't you ever going to stop running away from me? When two people are destined to come together as we are, there's no use in struggling.

• Guy Holden : That doesn't sound like the prisoners' song to me. It's not a bad tune. What is it?

  Mimi Glossop : It's the newest thing over here. It's called the Continental.

  Guy Holden : The Continental?

  Mimi Glossop : Mm-hmm.

  Guy Holden : Oh. I like it. That's the second thing I've found I'd like to take back home with me.

• Mimi Glossop : Do you believe in that kind of destiny?

  Guy Holden : Of course I do. In these things there's no such a thing as... as chance. Chance is the fool's name for fate.

• Mimi Glossop : Please don't ask me to stay.

  Guy Holden : All right, I won't. Don't go!

• Guy Holden : [singing and skipping in a circle]  The husband is coming! Hooray! Hooray!

• Guy Holden : Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?

  Mimi Glossop : What was that last one?

  Guy Holden : Benedictine?

  Mimi Glossop : No, the one after that.

  Guy Holden : Oh, marriage?

  Mimi Glossop : Do you always propose marriage as casually as that?

  Guy Holden : There is nothing casual about it. In fact, I've given it long and sincere thought.

• Guy Holden : [after crashing into Mimi's car]  Hello, hello! I've been looking for you!

• Waiter : I have an unnatural passion for rocks.

  Guy : You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

• Guy Holden : I wonder if she resented me tearing her skirt?

  Egbert Fitzgerald : Well, I wouldn't at all be surprised. That's the usual reaction. What did you do that for?

  Guy Holden : She couldn't move.

  Egbert Fitzgerald : Sounds very unsporting of you, Guy, really!

  Guy Holden : Well, you don't understand... uh... it was an accident.

  Egbert Fitzgerald : It usually is.

• Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald : Just dancing.

  Guy Holden : Oh, is that what it was?

• Guy Holden : Is this Mrs. Brown?

  Waiter : Why, no - That's Mrs. Green!

  Guy Holden : Well strike me pink!

• Guy Holden : I had to come down here just overnight. A little business.

  Mimi Glossop : Oh yes, I saw quite a few of them in bathing suits this afternoon.

• Mimi Glossop : Some people will do anything for money.

  Guy Holden : Oh, it's not as bad as all that. After all, I do bring pleasure to thousands of people.

  Mimi Glossop : Thousands?

  Guy Holden : Yes, tens of thousands. I bring romance to tens of thousands of shop girls, servant girls, stenographers.

  Mimi Glossop : You might spare me, Mr. Bluebeard.