Stolen Heaven (1931)

Phillips Holmes: Joe Bartlett

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• Joe Bartlett : I made a bargain with myself, see? I got twenty thousand dollars.

  Mary : Twenty thousand dollars?

  Joe Bartlett : Yeah, and I'm going to have one grand splurge. All the things I've wanted, all my life, and couldn't have because I didn't have the money. And then... finish.

  Mary : What do you mean?

  Joe Bartlett : [he pats his pocket]  This.

  Mary : Kill yourself?

  Joe Bartlett : Yeah, don't you understand? I suppose you think that's horrible? If you could only know how I felt - kinda, crazy, desperate. If you could only understand...

  Mary : I do understand! I know how you felt. You wanted just one, one chance at the life, the way other people have it.

  Joe Bartlett : Yeah! Yeah, that's it. That's all I want. And then, call it quits.

  Mary : It wasn't money you stole; it was music, lights and friends, and good things to eat.

  Joe Bartlett : [holding up the bundle of notes]  Yeah, and I got it too. Here it is. Here it is - see?

  Mary : 'Not make so much noise.

  Joe Bartlett : No, I suppose not.

  Joe Bartlett : Tell me something, will ya?

  Mary : What?

  Joe Bartlett : What would you do, if you had this? What would be your idea of having a good time? Being happy?

  Mary : Me?

  Joe Bartlett : Yeah.

  Mary : Oh, I don't know.

  Joe Bartlett : Oh, go on. Tell me.

  Mary : What does every girl want?

  Joe Bartlett : Well, I don't know much about girls. Tell me.

  Mary : What's the use?

  Joe Bartlett : Well, I mean, just supposing.

  Mary : Well, I suppose it's silly but if I were going to die, and I could choose just what I wanted, I think I'd pick a real, swell honeymoon.

  Joe Bartlett : Honeymoon?

  Mary : Sure. That's what every girl wants, isn't it? That is, if she tells the truth about it. And a young man to love her. Someone rich and handsome, who'd love her enough to take her away somewhere, where there'd be music and bright lights and the moon and people laughing. And they'd go to parties and she'd wear beautiful clothes and beautiful and... beautiful.

• Joe Bartlett : [continued]  Let's do it.

  Mary : What?

  Joe Bartlett : What you said. You and me together. I may not be so hot on the looks. I'm rich while it lasts. And when the money's gone, I go too. So you don't have to worry about my being in the way

  Mary : You mean you'd take me and go away somewhere together?

  Joe Bartlett : Sure. I thought we both seemed to be in the same kind of a jam.

  Mary : Yeah...

  Joe Bartlett : And if you would, it'd be wonderful for me.

  Mary : But where'd we go?

  Joe Bartlett : Anywhere you like.

  Mary : You're not kidding?

  Joe Bartlett : No. Where would you like to go?

  Mary : Some place where it's warm...

  Joe Bartlett : Me too.

  Mary : And where there's an ocean and palm trees and music.

  Joe Bartlett : Well, will you go with me?

  Mary : Sure. Why not? And after it's over, I'll finish too.

  Joe Bartlett : What do you mean?

  Mary : I mean, when you're ready to call it a lifetime, so am I.

  Joe Bartlett : But I never asked you to.

  Mary : I know it.

  Joe Bartlett : Well, I was only talking about myself. You don't have...

  Mary : I know but I'd want to. I wouldn't want to come back to this, anyhow. And if I'm gonna be partners in this, I'm gonna be partners the whole way. Besides, the idea appeals to me. To live and live and live without any thought except to be free and happy - and then bring down the curtain.