Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Robert Cummings: Harry Loren

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• Penny Craig : Did you have any trouble finding the house?

  Harry Loren : Yes, I walked past it twice. I thought it was a Museum of Natural History or something the WPA built.

• Harry Loren : Dad was a lawyer. He always wanted to be a musician - you should have heard him play the cello! But his father made him be a lawyer. They were all lawyers, his father, his grandfather - his great-grandfather was a pirate too. They hanged him in Jamaica. I guess that's why Dad never liked to wear a necktie.

  Penny Craig : We had a grandfather who was a horse thief.

  Dorothy Craig : A great-great-grandfather, Penny. And he didn't really steal the horses.

  Kay Craig : And they didn't hang him.

  Penny Craig : 'Cause they couldn't catch him.

• Binns the Butler : Miss Penny's just a child, sir...

  Harry Loren : I don't want biographies, I want my hat and coat.

  Binns the Butler : That poem, sir, "The best-laid schemes of mice and men..."

  Harry Loren : I don't want poetry, I don't want mice, I want my hat and coat.

  Binns the Butler : Very good, sir, but I do feel...

  Harry Loren : Now look here, young fellow. Your eyes have been burning holes in the back of my head all evening. And if I see you looking at me once again I'm going to get very mad and take you apart until I find that little machine that says "Yes sir, no sir, very good, sir," and I'm going to break it, see?

  Binns the Butler : Yes, sir.

  Harry Loren : Now get my hat and coat.

  Binns the Butler : Very good, sir.