Susan Slept Here (1954)

Dick Powell: Mark Christopher

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• Mark Christopher : You know I've forgotten what seventeen year old emotional kids are like. I've been going out with middle-aged women; twenty, twenty-one.

• Mark Christopher : Now every law has a loop-hole. What can we do, Harvey? She's a nice kid.

  Virgil, Mark's Gofer : You and Isabella can adopt her, if you don't tell Isabella.

• Virgil, Mark's Gofer : But as a very wise child bride pointed out: who needs me around here? I'm too old for college and too young for charity. That leaves the navy.

  Mark Christopher : Deserter.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : And thank you for the whistle, too, even if you didn't mean it.

  Mark Christopher : I meant every pucker.

• Mark Christopher : How would you like your daughter to spend the next six months in jail with hardened criminals?

  Harvey Butterworth, Mark's Lawyer : Hmm, might do her good.

• Mark Christopher : You get so dramatic about everything. You ought to be an actress.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : I am an actress!

  Mark Christopher : I loved you in "The Outlaw."

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : I never played that part.

  Mark Christopher : No you didn't.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : You mean you let a girl keep you from sleeping?

  Mark Christopher : It's been the policy of our firm for a great many years.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : Didn't you have a date?

  Mark Christopher : Yeah, going to see a girlfriend of mine. For some reason, I'm late.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : She's broadminded, isn't she? You bringing another woman along, I mean.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : Then I was in a musical comedy in high school. I met a composer that had ulterior motives on me.

  Mark Christopher : Now, why can't I think of plots like that?

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : You talk like a writer.

  Mark Christopher : I just don't write like a writer.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : You don't look like a writer.

  Mark Christopher : That's because I've done so much writing.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : Let's forget you're a man and I'm a woman.

  Mark Christopher : Okay. You be the man. I'll be the woman.

• Mark Christopher : I thought you'd gone to bed.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : I'm afraid to go to bed.

  Mark Christopher : Well what are you afraid of?

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : I'm afraid I'll fall asleep.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : [Mark dealing cards for a game of gin rummy]  What'll we play for?

  Mark Christopher : We'll just play.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : Why don't we play for who gets the bedroom and who sleeps out here?

  Mark Christopher : All right.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : What if it's a tie?

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : You're a man, aren't you?

  Mark Christopher : There's a nasty rumor to that affect, yes.

• Susan Beaurgard Landis : You know, I'd like to get a dye job and a facial like hers.

  Mark Christopher : Isabella's a natural blonde.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : You sure?

  Mark Christopher : We're very good friends.

• Mark Christopher : Hello there.

  Sergeant Monty Maizel : Hi.

  Mark Christopher : I don't think we've met.

  Sergeant Monty Maizel : That's because you never saw me before.

• Mark Christopher : Yeah, I want to get you drunk. Loaded! Pie-eyed! Stinkin'! Tight as a hoot owl! High as a kite! Blind as a bat!

• Mark Christopher : Stop acting like a lawyer. Use your brain. What about vagrancy?

  Harvey Butterworth, Mark's Lawyer : It's all right - for those who like it.

• Mark Christopher : How may I ask am I acting?

  Dr. Rawley, Harvey's Shrink : Like a jealous man. Like a husband who's in love with his own wife. Of course, it is abnormal, when he doesn't know it.

  Mark Christopher : Abnormal? Me, abnormal? Let's get something straight, Doctor, I don't love anybody. I don't love anybody!

  Dr. Rawley, Harvey's Shrink : Why don't we lie down - and talk it over.

• Mark Christopher : You're only seventeen.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : Seventeen? I'll be 18 in four months! I can climb on a horse alone. I shoot golf in the low 140s. I belong to the best book-of-the-week club. I read parts of The New York Times I can understand. I can smoke a cigarette half down. And I know how to mix drinks. Daiquiris: two jiggers of rum, half a lime, sugar to taste, pour over crushed ice. Serve. Martinis: five parts gin, one part vermouth, French, stir, but don't bruise the gin. Scotch over rocks.

  [winks] 

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : That's Scotch and soda without the soda. Now Mark, what more do you want in a wife? I'm a doll and you know it!

  Mark Christopher : I'm too big to play with dolls. I'm ready for the arm chair, television, a small dog to bring my slippers.

  Susan Beaurgard Landis : [pants enthusiastically like a dog]  Arf! Arf!