It's Love I'm After (1937)

Patric Knowles: Henry Grant, Jr.

Quotes 

• 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.

• Henry Grant, Jr. : Haven't you one speck of unselfishness in you?

  Basil Underwood : What was that?

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Don't you ever do a thing because it's the decent thing to do?

  Basil Underwood : The decent thing to do? I'm beginning to see something.

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Don't you ever do a thing that's generous if only to help your self-respect?

• 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.

• William West : [Pulling Henry aside at the garden party]  You know, I found out something I think you oughta know.

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Oh, what?

  William West : Well, I'm not sure yet, mind you, but uh, I think Marcia's beginning to fall in love with that actor.

  Henry Grant, Jr. : Mr. West, you have a great mind. Where have you been all this time? Why she's practically published it in the newspapers. She's even invited all the neighbors around to flaunt it in front of them.

  William West : You mean everybody knows and I'm just... Nobody ever bothers to tell me what's happening under my own nose.

• Aunt Ella : What Happened?

  Henry Grant, Jr. : I knocked him cold.

  Aunt Ella : Why, this is terrible.

  Joyce Arden : He dislikes being knocked out. Miss Paisley, let's have dinner.

• 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.