It's Love I'm After (1937)

Olivia de Havilland: Marcia West

Quotes 

• Marcia West : [about Basil]  I don't think there are words to describe him, do you?

  Joyce Arden : Well, there probably are, but one would have to have a very extensive vocabulary.

• Marcia West : [to Basil]  Will you shut up?

  Basil Underwood : What?

  Marcia West : You meddlesome old nuisance, who asked you to interfere with our affairs, anyway?

  Henry Grant, Jr. : She's absolutely right!

  Basil Underwood : Well, I like that! Why, you - you...

  Marcia West : You leave Henry out of this! If he'd had any sense he would have realized that I'd have forgotten all about you in two weeks. I was in love with Clark Gable last year, and if I could get over him, it's a cinch I could get over you.

  Basil Underwood : Who's Clark Gable?

  Marcia West : [to Henry]  He doesn't know who Clark Gable is.

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Hmmm. I do.

• Marcia West : What are manners? Little rules for little people!

• Marcia West : This is Miss Kane.

  Gracie Kane : I know you, you wear blue polka-dot shorts!

  Basil Underwood : Are there no reformatories in California?

• Marcia West : What right has she to talk that way to me?

  Joyce Arden : Practically none. Wives have so few rights nowadays.

  Marcia West : Your wife?

  Basil Underwood : Yes, my wife...

  [looking at Joyce] 

  Basil Underwood : ... wonderful.

• Marcia West : This Aunt Ella Paisley!

  Aunt Ella : [Grabbing his hand]  Oh, Mr. Underwood! That hand! That Hand! That love line, and that mound of Venus. You'll be married once. Heaven help the poor girl, the lucky thing.

• Marcia West : I think that everyone should act the way they feel, don't you?

  Basil Underwood : Yes, uh, I do. Yes, yes.

  Marcia West : Of course, a lot of people think I'm crazy. Do you?

  Basil Underwood : No, no, no. A little strange, perhaps, but, uh...

• Marcia West : I thought perhaps, that... that someday when you're old and forgotten...

  Basil Underwood : What? Me... me forgotten?

  Marcia West : And when you feel that awful loneliness that comes to those who've been admired and then are now forgotten - that then, perhaps, you'll remember tonight. And be grateful to me.

• William West : Marcia, I want you to get this man out of here. He's a lunatic.

  Marcia West : Oh, go away, daddy, please.

  William West : I will, I...

  Marcia West : Father!

  William West : Oh, well. I'll go away.

  [Mumbles to himself] 

• William West : What are my daughter's moles to you, Mr. Underwood?

  Marcia West : Oh, leave him alone, daddy. Please go away.

  William West : [Mumbling as he steps away]  Nobody ever lets me in on anything.

• Henry Grant, Jr. : Now you listen to me. If you love me, you'll leave those moles where they are. They're... they're part of the girl I'm engaged to.

  Marcia West : Well, I'm sorry, Henry, but you're not engaged to my moles. And they're coming off.

• Marcia West : Don't tell father. He doesn't understand.

  Basil Underwood : No, he wouldn't, would he.

• Marcia West : You can have your husband back now, Mrs. Underwood. Though how you can endure him is beyond me. Of all the meddlesome, impertinent, conceited...

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Now, now darling. Remember, he was on the level about getting us back together again.

• Marcia West : He's too big for manners!

• Marcia West : Aunt Ella, when Basil Underwood feels like a kipper, I'm sure he doesn't feel like an egg - even an aristocratic one.