Boy Meets Girl (1938)

James Cagney: Robert Law

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• Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook : But don't you think he'd be good for Happy? He's an outdoor man.

  Robert Law : So's the guy who collects my garbage.

• Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook : You won't drink too much in Vermont, will you Mr. Law?

  Robert Law : Only the heady wine air that has no dregs.

  Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook : 'Cause you're crazy enough without drinking.

• Robert Law : Talk about scope sweep. Boy, what a set up!

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : What a love story!

  Robert Law : A great love story.

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : A baby brings them together, splits them apart, brings them together again,

  Robert Law : Boy meets girl.

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : Boy loses girl.

  Robert Law : Boy gets girl.

  C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday : Boy, I think you got something. Let's try it out on B.K. while it's hot.

  Larry Toms : Wait a minute. You can't act with a baby. They'll steal every scene.

  Robert Law : Are you selling motherhood short?

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : Come on!

  Robert Law : Come on!

• Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook : Don't make fun of me.

  Robert Law : Fun? Well, I've never been so touched in all my life. Susie, I feel purified.

  Robert Law : Susie, can we be Godfathers?

  Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook : Do you mean it?

  Robert Law : I mean it. Just you say "yes", and see how quick I'll get Hellinger to print: "Benson and Law Godfathering In June".

• Rossetti : I've got Larry Toms waiting in your office to hear your story. Come on.

  Robert Law : We haven't got any stories.

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : Tell him one anyway.

  Robert Law : Okay. Once there was a fairy princess who lived in a broken down castle, on a broken down river, with a broken down aunt. In fact, she was a broken down princess.

• Robert Law : I was a promising young novelist. Almost won the Pulitzer Prize in nineteen thirty, and now in nineteen thirty eight, I'm writing dialogue for a horse.

  Rossetti : Larry! Larry, take a breath. The boy's mean no harm. Exhale.

  Robert Law : I smell carbon exhaust.

  Larry Toms : One more crack...

• C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday : "Tiger Tamer". There it is, right there in the corner. "Tiger Tamer" by J. Carlyle Benson and Robert Law.

  Robert Law : That's a forgery! Benson, we've been framed.

  J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson : Why you...

  C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday : This is the last prank you boys will ever play.