Woman Chases Man (1937)
Charles Winninger: B.J. Nolan
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Quotes
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Virginia Travis : I know what you're thinking. That I'm a girl. Yes, Mr Nolan, but I've a man's courage, a man's vision, a man's attack.
B.J. Nolan : Well, don't attack me.
Virginia Travis : For seven years I've studied like a man, researched like a man. There's nothing feminine about my mind. Seven years ago I gave up a perfectly nice engagement with a charming, wealthy old man because I chose a practical career. I left him at the church to become an architect. Now, I'm ready and he's dead.
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B.J. Nolan : Outside of my office right now are four sourpuss process servers with summonses!
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B.J. Nolan : I'll never ask you again. I know I made mistakes but this is something different. I tell you it's the berries.
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B.J. Nolan : What's the matter with your mouth?
Virginia Travis : Hmm?
B.J. Nolan : Take a look in the mirror.
Virginia Travis : Lipstick, huh?
[looks in the mirror, sees her expression as if she were talking out of one side of her mouth]
Virginia Travis : Oh, it's a habit I got into when I was an usher at the Casino Theater. They only showed gangster G-Men pictures and I saw so many of them I got to talking out of the side of my mouth like this. Only the manager of the theater, he talked out of the left side of his mouth like this and Judy and I talked out of the right sides of our mouths like this. And one day he came up and he said, "What do you girls think you're doing, mimicking me?" And Judy said, "No, Mr Shelby, we're only talking," and I said, "Honest, Mr Shelby. I mean honest, Mr. Shelby, we're only talking." He said, "You're fired! You're both fired!"
B.J. Nolan : Wait! Wait!
Virginia Travis : Well, about that time, Hunk came up. He was the ticket taker. Only, he was studying to be a construction engineer and he socked Mr. Shelby and we all landed in the park. And that's how I got in the habit of talking out the side of my mouth like this.
B.J. Nolan : I see.
Virginia Travis : But it was a lucky day after all; because, Hunk and Judy decided then and there to get married, because two can starve as cheaply as one.
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B.J. Nolan : My son is a conservative. He was born in Maine and weaned in Vermont.
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B.J. Nolan : Nolan Heights. I guess I should have called it Nolan bluffs.
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B.J. Nolan : I'll turn you over my knee and spank you.
Virginia Travis : Mr Nolan! You're not the BJ Nolan I expected to work for.
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Virginia Travis : I'm sorry. I'm going. But this last noodle goes with me.
[picks up a long noodle, holds it over her head, opens her mouth, sticks out her tongue, feeds herself the noodle]
B.J. Nolan : You finish your noodle. You're going home with me.
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Virginia Travis : He won't lend you the money anyway as long as he knows you want it. So, you must make him think you don't want it. If you were a woman, you'd know that.
B.J. Nolan : I thought you had a man's mind.
Virginia Travis : Of course, but, I think like a woman when I have to.
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Virginia Travis : You're an old crud.
B.J. Nolan : What?
Virginia Travis : A crud.
B.J. Nolan : What's a crud?
Virginia Travis : An old man who puts shoes on backwards and crawls round on newspapers.
B.J. Nolan : Yeah? Well, you're a flab.
Virginia Travis : What's a flab?
B.J. Nolan : A young snip who climbs ladders upside down blindfolded.
Virginia Travis : Hooray, this is fun! Isn't it fun? Don't you like me? I like you. Well, what can we lose?
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B.J. Nolan : He'll be a different man. A happy man.
Virginia Travis : All right, BJ. We'll try. For his sake.
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B.J. Nolan : I haven't always been a helpless old man. He told you of the money I lost. Did he tell you of the money I made?
Virginia Travis : You made?
B.J. Nolan : I made a million in Florida! My wife dragged a half million for a rainy day. I made another million in Oklahoma and my wife dragged another half a million for another rainy day. Two million dollars! And now when It's finally raining, my son's got the only umbrella.
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Judy : What are you doing?
B.J. Nolan : Playing "puss in the corner".
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B.J. Nolan : I know when I'm licked.
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B.J. Nolan : You see, I fry one on one side and one on the other. And when I turn them over and fry one on the other side and the other on one side. You get it?
Judy : No.
