All About Eve (1950)
Marilyn Monroe: Miss Casswell
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Quotes
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[a butler passes by]
Miss Casswell : Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt : That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Casswell : Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt : You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Casswell : I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian : Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Casswell : Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt : Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
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Miss Casswell : Tell me this, do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt : That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions.
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[on theatrical producers]
Miss Casswell : Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?
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Margo : I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off of my guest list. What are you doing here?
Addison DeWitt : Dear Margo, you were an unforgettable Peter Pan. You must play it again, soon. You remember Miss Casswell.
Margo : I do not. How do you do?
Miss Casswell : We've never met. Maybe that's why?
Addison DeWitt : Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana school of the dramatic arts.
[Eve enters]
Addison DeWitt : Ah, Eve.
Eve : Good evening, Mr. DeWitt.
Margo : I'd no idea you two knew each other.
Addison DeWitt : This must be at long last our formal introduction. Until now, we've only met in passing.
Miss Casswell : That's how you met me... in passing.
Margo : Eve, this is an old friend of Mr. DeWitt's mother. Miss Casswell, Miss Harrington.
Eve : Miss Casswell.
Miss Casswell : How do you do?
Margo : Addison, I've been waiting for you to meet Eve for the longest time.
Addison DeWitt : It could only have been your natural timidity that kept you from mentioning it.
Margo : You've heard of her great interest in the theater.
Addison DeWitt : We have that in common.
Margo : Then you two must have a long talk.
Eve : I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
Miss Casswell : You won't bore him, honey. You won't even get a chance to talk.
Addison DeWitt : Claudia, come here.
[takes her aside]
Addison DeWitt : You see that man, that's Max Fabian, the producer. Now, go do yourself some good.
Miss Casswell : Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?
Addison DeWitt : Because that's what they are.
[taking her coat]
Addison DeWitt : Now, go and make him happy.
[goes back to Margo and drapes the coat over her arm]
Addison DeWitt : Now, don't worry about your little charge, she'll be in safe hands.
[walks off with Eve]
Margo : [watches them go, then lifts her martini] Ah-men.
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Miss Casswell : Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for!
Bill Sampson : And probably has.
Miss Casswell : Sable!
Max Fabian : Sable? Did she say sable or Gable?
Miss Casswell : Either one.
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Addison DeWitt : Ah! Feeling better, my dear?
Miss Casswell : Like I just swam the English Channel. Now what?
Addison DeWitt : Your next move, it seems to me, should be towards television.