Enter Laughing (1967)

Elaine May: Angela Marlowe

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• Harrison B. Marlowe : Read the part of Jeff Hemming.

  David Kolowitz : Jeff Hemming?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Yes. Take it from Jeff's entrance. Read.

  David Kolowitz : "Enter laughing. I trust I haven't kept you waiting too long."

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Eh, read that again, will you?

  David Kolowitz : "Enter laughing! I trust I haven't kept you waiting too..."

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Young man, there is a parenthesis around "Enter laughing". It is a - stage direction.

  David Kolowitz : Oh. That means I laugh when I enter?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Exactly. Enter laughing means that you laugh when you enter. Proceed.

  David Kolowitz : May I ask a question? What is he laughing about?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : What is he laughing about?

  Angela Marlowe : It's in the nature of the character. You see, Jeff Hemming is a devil-may-care young man and he's just broken into a solemn, family gathering. They're reading the will.

  David Kolowitz : Who died?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : His Uncle.

  David Kolowitz : And he's laughing? Why?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Just let me hear you laugh and then go into the speech.

  Angela Marlowe : Just let him hear you laugh and then go into the speech.

  [David proceeds to laugh in a variety of ways] 

• Angela Marlowe : What happened to Barry Holloway?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : I fired him.

  Angela Marlowe : Why did you do that? Do your realize that this was this boy's whole world? Was his whole life? And he was my height. Why did you fire him?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Because he quit! The idiot wanted to be paid.

  Angela Marlowe : Paid?

• Angela Marlowe : So, you want to be an actor. Why?

  [proceeds to get dressed] 

  David Kolowitz : I - I - I think it's very exciting. Eh, eh, everybody's watching you. You're doing something in and, eh, everybody watches you.

  Angela Marlowe : That's a very good reason.

• Angela Marlowe : I'm sure that this isn't your first time - you've been in a room when a girl is dressing.

  David Kolowitz : No, ma'am.

  Angela Marlowe : Oh, I thought not.

  David Kolowitz : I have a kid sister.

• Angela Marlowe : There's only one real way to express love.

  David Kolowitz : What?

  Angela Marlowe : Poetry.

  David Kolowitz : What?

  Angela Marlowe : I heard this poem only once. But, I was in love. So, I'll never forget it. "If I were Queen of Pleasure, And you were King of Pain, We'd hunt down love together, Pluck out his flying feather, Teach his feet a measure, If I were KIng of Pleasure, And you were Queen of Pain."

  David Kolowitz : I - I know what you mean.

• David Kolowitz : If I had my choice between - between Carole Lombard or Jean Harlow or you, who do you think I'd ask out for a date, huh?

  Angela Marlowe : Me, I suppose.

  David Kolowitz : Well, of course, I would. Those other ladies don't know who I am. They think I'm a creep. They don't even answer my calls.

• Angela Marlowe : Should you be drinking?

  Harrison B. Marlowe : Yes.

• David Kolowitz : Boy was I rotten.

  Angela Marlowe : Don, it was your first time! You were trying. Look, somethings you did - very well.

  David Kolowitz : Yeah, like what?

  Angela Marlowe : The kiss. Oh, you did the kiss very well. It was very convincing.

  David Kolowitz : You did most of it.