Merrily We Live (1938)

Alan Mowbray: Grosvenor (butler)

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Quotes 

• Grosvenor - Butler : What you see in Mr. Rawlins I'll never know.

  Etta : You said it.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Fix him two 10-minute eggs.

  Etta : Why, they'd be hard.

  Grosvenor - Butler : You said it.

• Grosvenor - Butler : Are you going to believe who you talk to or what I tell you? Miss Kilbourne is not at home.

• Jerry Kilbourne : There's no film in the camera.

  Grosvenor - Butler : But, how can you take pictures without film then?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, you can't. I'm just trying it. If I like it, I'll buy some film.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Yes, ma'am.

• Etta : Did you find anything of Ambrose?

  Grosvenor - Butler : He's vanished like the wind.

  Etta : Woe is us. That's the eighth tramp chauffer in six months.

• Grosvenor - Butler : This household is entirely much too much for me. I'm through.

  Etta : What, again?

  Grosvenor - Butler : This time it's final. Irrevocable. Of course, it's all right if some people want to stay in a haven of derelicts.

• Grosvenor - Butler : And what do you mean, sitting down in Mrs. Kilbourne's presence?

  Wade Rawlins : Well, I always sit down when I'm driving her.

  Grosvenor - Butler : What's that got to do with it?

  Wade Rawlins : [Wade looks at the cook, Etta]  I don't know, what do you think?

  Etta : I think you look grand.

• Wade Rawlins : It seems Mrs. Kilbourne wants to see me about something. Look after things while I'm gone.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Yes, sir... Sir? Huh? Who do I think he is?

• Mr. Kilbourne : [Grosvenor appears unshaven and in a hobo outfit]  What's the idea of that getup?

  Grosvenor - Butler : After watching the success of all the tramps who have infested this house, I realize that I've been in the wrong racket. From now on, me for the open road.

  [sic] 

• Grosvenor - Butler : This time I'm through, and nothing will make me change my mind. Nothing.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [Enters the kitchen]  Going somewhere, Grosvenor?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Why no, Miss Geraldine. The very idea...

• Jerry Kilbourne : What's all this about the silver being gone?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Yes, miss, I'm afraid it's only too true.

  Jerry Kilbourne : Where's Ambrose?

  Grosvenor - Butler : He disappeared with the silver, miss. And he also took my black patent leather shoes.

• Mrs. Emily Kilbourne : [after trying to use a large wooden stirring spoon on her cantaloupe]  Grosvenor, don't you think this spoon is a little large for such a tiny little melon.

  Grosvenor - Butler : I'm sorry, madam, but...

• Wade Rawlins : Don't you like tramps?

  Grosvenor - Butler : I try desperately to love all God's creatures, but I loathe tramps.

• Grosvenor - Butler : [Answers the telephone]  Mr. Wheeler, miss.

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, is it? Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor and listens] 

  Herbert Wheeler : [Talking from a lobby phone booth]  Listen you stupid old fraud, who do you think you're kidding?

  Jerry Kilbourne : What did you call me, Herbert?

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Oh, I'm sorry, sweetheart. Listen baby...

  Grosvenor - Butler : I beg your pardon, sir. But I'm neither your sweetheart nor your baby.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Baby! You baby elephant. Will you get off the phone ya big lug?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Why, Herbert, I thought you wanted to talk to me. But if that's the way you feel about it.

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Uh, wait a minute, Jerry.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [Speaking loudly toward the phone that Grosvenor is holding]  Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Hello, this is the Kilbourne estate.

  Herbert Wheeler : Will you please stop monkeying around and let me talk to Miss Kilbourne?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  Herbert Wheeler : Listen, you fathead. I know she's at home. I just talked to her.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Are you going to believe who you talked to or what I tell you? Miss Kilbourne is not at home.

• Mr. Kilbourne : [Holds up a cup-size strainer]  Grosvenor, who ever heard of eating cantaloupe with a contraption like that?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Off hand, I couldn't say, sir.

• Marian Kilbourne : Why, Grosvenor, you're white as a sheet.

  Etta : You look like a snowman on a hot day.

  Grosvenor - Butler : That man has bats in the belfry.

  Etta : Why? What happened?

  Grosvenor - Butler : He's in his room talking to himself and laughing like a maniac. He says the man in the blue buttons and brass coat is after him.

  [sic] 

  Grosvenor - Butler : I tell you, he's stark staring mad.

• Jerry Kilbourne : If you ask me, and I'm sure you won't, I think Rawlins has great possibilities.

  Mr. Kilbourne : He's nothing but a presumptuous pup, don't you think so, Grosvenor?

  Grosvenor - Butler : I would rather not discuss that person, sir, but since you asked me, I think he's suffering from dementia...

  Jerry Kilbourne : He means he thinks he's nuts.