Love Before Breakfast (1936)

Carole Lombard: Kay Colby

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• Kay Colby : Incidentally, what's happened to the Count? Where is he?

  Scott Miller : Where are the snows of yesteryear?

  Kay Colby : Where the woodbine twineth.

  Scott Miller : That's where the Count is.

• Scott Miller : Is this youngster annoying you?

  Kay Colby : Not at all.

  Scott Miller : Be a good Scout, sonny, and toddle back to your table.

  Kay Colby : I wish you'd stop interfering with my affairs.

  Scott Miller : Oh, I didn't know this was an affair.

  Kay Colby : Well, whatever it is, I can do without you nicely.

  First College Boy : Madam, is this old gentleman annoying you?

  Kay Colby : Yes. Very decidedly.

  First College Boy : So maybe you'd better totter back to your table.

• Charles : Mademoiselle! Where'd you get this blue eye?

  Kay Colby : I got the blue one from my mother's side of the family. The black one is a present from a gentleman who's crazy about me.

  Charles : Ah, c'est l'amour!

  Kay Colby : Mmm... What can you do about it?

  Charles : We fix it perfect. If Mademoiselle will sit, please.

  Kay Colby : Yeah.

  Charles : First of all, we put on the cold towel. Some astringent maybe. Then some raw beef. Just a small piece.

  Kay Colby : Put the whole cow on if it'll help any.

• Scott Miller : How do I look?

  Kay Colby : Like a street cleaner.

  Scott Miller : Come, come, come now. You can't win me with flattery.

• Scott Miller : I've come to take you to the ball.

  Kay Colby : Oh, you have? Well, I hope you can bear up on it, but I'm going with Stuart Farnum.

  Scott Miller : I'm sorry, but you're going with me.

  Kay Colby : I told you I was going with Stu.

  Scott Miller : Stu? How vulgar. Is that a name or a condition?

  Kay Colby : That's his name.

  Scott Miller : Strange. It's also his condition.

  Kay Colby : He's gonna take me if he has to go on a stretcher.

• Scott Miller : Now that we're engaged, I hope we'll see each other occasionally.

  Kay Colby : Whatever is customary, Mr. Miller.

• Kay Colby : You're not planning on coming with me, by any chance?

  Mrs. Colby : Certainly not. I have better ways to spend my declining weekends, dear.

• Bill Wadsworth : Be kind of fun if they didn't show up, wouldn't it? Then we could be alone sort of.

  Kay Colby : What do you mean *sort of*?

• Mrs. Colby : What kind of a costume is Stuart wearing?

  Kay Colby : I don't know. He said something about going as a fudge sundae.

  Mrs. Colby : How appealing.

• Scott Miller : Are you actually smiling?

  Kay Colby : No. I'm only giving my face a rest.

• Kay Colby : Have you ever been hit with a slot machine?

• Kay Colby : I don't see why you have to go all the way to Japan for a job. You were doing fine right here.

  Bill Wadsworth : Listen, honey, if a man wants to get ahead in the oil business, he has to be ready to go any place, any time.

  Kay Colby : There isn't any money in oil anyway. Rockefeller took it all out.

  Bill Wadsworth : Nah, they left enough for me.

• Scott Miller : It's a funny world, isn't it?

  Kay Colby : What's funny about it?

  Scott Miller : Well, the Countess wants to marry me.

  Kay Colby : You're afraid?

  Scott Miller : You want to marry Bill and I want to marry you. Quite a problem, isn't it?

• Kay Colby : Let me tell you something little Napoleon, this is one time your button pushing isn't going to do you any good.

• First College Boy : Oh, come on Toots, have a drink with me. I crave companionship.

  Kay Colby : You should join a sorority.

• Scott Miller : I wish you wouldn't go. I wanted to take you to the dog show - and showing the cutest little animals you ever saw. Pekingese you'd be mad about. Oh, you don't like Pekingese. That's right. I remember now. You're definitely not the Pekingese type. You know, the first time I saw you, I said to myself: now, there's a girl who's definitely...

  Kay Colby : Not the Pekingese type!

  [leaves] 

  Scott Miller : Bulldog, maybe; but, not Pekingese.

• Yuki - Kay's Maid : You finishing the tea, please?

  Kay Colby : Yes, Yuki.

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Thank you, Miss Kay.

• Kay Colby : What do you see Yuki?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : [reading the tea leaves]  Oh, you going to party, big party, lots of people.

  Kay Colby : Who takes me? Who am I with?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Lots of people. Many people.

  Kay Colby : Yes, but who's next to me?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Lady, maybe fat lady.

  Kay Colby : But, what gentleman?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : No gentleman. All ladies. Card party. Oh, you lose money.

  Kay Colby : Isn't there one man in that cup?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Man? No. No see no man. Oh, you get present.

  Kay Colby : Yes? From whom?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Lovely present! Jewelry present.

  Kay Colby : Who gives it to me? What is he like? Is he a big man?

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : I not I can say for sure. Always the same eyes. Same - Yes, I sure. Present come from your mother.

  Kay Colby : Yuki, you tell the dullest fortunes.

• Yuki - Kay's Maid : I think maybe you marry Mr. Miller sometime.

  Kay Colby : Me! Marry Mr. Miller? Huh!

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Yes, I think you love Mr. Miller.

  Kay Colby : You think too much.

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Thank you, Miss Kay.

• Yuki - Kay's Maid : When Japanese girl love Japanese man, she go to him and she say, "I love you, Mr. Miller." Then, everything right away fine.

  Kay Colby : Yes, then everything right away great. Little Japanese girl gets shoved around the rest of her life.

  Yuki - Kay's Maid : Japanese girls liking to be shoved around.

  Kay Colby : Not this Japanese girl!

• Kay Colby : This isn't going to be any 'Taming of the Shrew', you know. I'm not gonna come crawling after you've broken my spirit.

  Scott Miller : I'll take my chance.

  Kay Colby : It's a long one!

• Kay Colby : Do you mean to tell me you'd take anything from Scott Miller?

  Bill Wadsworth : Well, why not? He's my boss, isn't he? Just because you got tight one night and promised to marry him.

  Kay Colby : I wasn't tight!

• Bill Wadsworth : To us, darling! My joys will be your joys.

  Kay Colby : And your troubles will be my troubles.

  Bill Wadsworth : Oh, but I haven't any troubles.

  Kay Colby : Wait till you marry me.

• Waiter : With Mr. Miller's compliments.

  [presenting a bottle of champagne] 

  Bill Wadsworth : Well!

  Kay Colby : Is that so? You can send it back to Mr. Miller with our compliments.

  Bill Wadsworth : No, wait. We can't do that, Kay. He's my boss.

  Kay Colby : Well, he's not my boss!

• Bill Wadsworth : Cozy, isn't it!

  Kay Colby : [sarcastically]  Compact, that's what I like about it.

• Bill Wadsworth : It would be kinda fun if they didn't show up, wouldn't it? Then we could, be alone, sort of.

  Kay Colby : What do you mean: sort of?

  Bill Wadsworth : Well, you know, we're engaged, aren't we?

• Kay Colby : Don't be a fool.

  Bill Wadsworth : I don't intend to be. I've been a sap long enough. What do you think I am? Blind? You're not fooling me. You're just using me to burn him up.

• Scott Miller : You're getting right into that bed, as soon as you get out of that mustard bath.

  Kay Colby : Who do you think you're talking to?

  Scott Miller : You heard what I said. You get into that bed and stay there! I don't want any more annoyance from you.

• Kay Colby : Isn't it marvelous that everybody's so gay?

• Scott Miller : If you were a man I'd poke you right in the nose.

  Kay Colby : Wouldn't that be repeating yourself!

  Scott Miller : I should have hit you harder!

• Mrs. Colby : Kay! Put your feet right back in that mustard! Do you want to catch pneumonia?

  Kay Colby : I don't care what I catch!

  Mrs. Colby : Do I have to tie you in this tub?

• Kay Colby : And on top of everything else, you're a hyperthyroid!

• Kay Colby : You stop yelling at me! You, you - button pusher!

  Scott Miller : You bet I'm a button pusher and I'm gonna keep right on being a button pusher until the day I die and, what's more, you're going to like it!

• Scott Miller : [Telephones Kay to see if she got the puppy he sent her with flowers]  Oh, hello, Kay. How are you today?

  Kay Colby : [Tries to imitate her Japanese maid]  Miss Kruby no come on phone now. Miss Kruby very busy drowning nasty little dog.