Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Robert Montgomery: Richard 'Dickie' Kurt

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• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Would you mind having your jitters after I leave?

• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You want something the morons will eat up.

  Mr. Neff : How do you know they'll eat her biography?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Not by sitting at a desk and starring at a check and worrying about buttons.

  Mr. Neff : Buttons?

• Mr. Neff : Hmm? She got into Russia without a passport.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : The only passport she needs, she - she doesn't need a passport.

• Mr. 'Feydie' Feydak : There are some cigarettes. Help yourself.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : No, thank you. I just finished four of 'em.

• Marion Forsythe : Could you come back later? You see, Feydie and I haven't seen each other since...

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Since Vienna. Yes, I know.

  Marion Forsythe : How did you know?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Well, isn't it always since Vienna that Bohemians haven't seen one another?

• Marion Forsythe : Oh, Mr. Kurt, am I late?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You telephone me and ask me for an appointment. As a matter of convenience to you, I make it here, instead of at my office. The appointment was for five o'clock and it is now five thirty. It has taken me a half hour to get here. That is one hour. One hour in which I might have made love to a girl, read a good book, or had a decent idea. One hour irreparably lost!

  Marion Forsythe : Well, go on. Hit me.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I haven't seen little Marion now for many years. Oh, she was pretty as a spotted pup that last Spring in Knoxville.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You must have been in on the beginning of her career.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Yes. She had just started her painting.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I wasn't thinking of painting.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : A gentleman, sir, doesn't bend your lady's name about - lest of all in her own parlor!

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : That's were I have the edge on you. I'm no gentleman.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You talk like a Communist.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You talk like a Senator!

• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Your state of undress means nothing to me.

  Marion Forsythe : I can't very well get off the steamer like this.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : All right. Go ahead and dress. I won't stop you. But, you'll listen to my proposition now.

• Marion Forsythe : Young man, you make me feel like an institution.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I wish you'd stop calling me young man.

  Marion Forsythe : I beg pardon, old man.

• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I'll bet he's greedy and vicious. When a man starts worrying about unprotected women, you can be sure his intentions are no good.

• Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Do you speak Bohemian?

  Ms. Bella 'Bell' Clark : Oh, well, no!

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Well, I want to tell you, Madam, that I would be terrified to translate your vile insinuation to this poor little woman. She has just been discharged from a sanitarium in Prague, Bohemia, cured of Dementia Precocks.

  Ms. Bella 'Bell' Clark : What?

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Violent Insanity. Anything may set her off.

• Marion Forsythe : I'm sailing tomorrow by way of the Canal for Hollywood. Feydie's out there, you know.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : Yes. Yes, I'd heard he'd left.

  Marion Forsythe : He's gotten me a marvelous commission to paint some of the biggest stars in motion pictures.