Speak Easily (1932)

Thelma Todd: Eleanor Espere

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Quotes 

• Eleanor Espere : Tell me, Timmy. Have you ever seriously thought of marriage?

  Professor Post : Yes... that's why I'm single.

• Eleanor Espere : I think I know what the Professor wants. Does it go something like this?

  [begins dancing] 

  Professor Post : That's something like it. Only there should be more sensuosity of the hips. Such as.

  Eleanor Espere : Oh, you mean like this! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...

  Professor Post : Now that is authentic.

  Eleanor Espere : Uh-huh.

  Professor Post : But it would be much more effective - if you were in the nude.

  James : Professor, Professor. That's out. No nudes!

  Professor Post : But, James, it was done so in Athens.

  James : Yeah, they might get away with that in Athens. That's a college town!

• Eleanor Espere : The Sunrise Supper Club. Say, I put that saloon on it's feet. Made it New York's hottest night spot. And when I first went there, it was a Speak Easy!

  Professor Post : Speak easy?

  Eleanor Espere : Yeah, Speak Easy.

  Professor Post : Speak easy? You have unconsciously committed a solipsism. You should purify the verb and say: Speak easily.

  Eleanor Espere : Speak Easily?

  Professor Post : Speak easily.

  James : It's here. It's here! It's here!

  Professor Post : Did something arrive?

  James : I'll say it has. The title for our show: Speak Easily.

• Eleanor Espere : I got legs.

  [hikes up her skirt] 

  Professor Post : I assumed as much.

  Eleanor Espere : Assume nothing! Say, get an eyeful of this!

• Eleanor Espere : Don't be sill! And I was thinking, that I would give you the key to my apartment . So, that when you felt like it you could just run up and we could - have a cup of tea?

  Professor Post : Very well. If I should ever feel the need of a cup of tea.

• Eleanor Espere : [enters wearing a negligee]  Well, I'm back again, Timmy.

  Professor Post : You wanna take a bath?

  Eleanor Espere : [laughs]  You can crack wise, can't you.

• Eleanor Espere : Timoleon! Timoleon! We've got an engagement. And you're going to have to do plenty of explaining.

  Professor Post : I am fully aware of the fact that the events of the past few minutes have not been of a strictly conventional order. Therefore I feel it necessary to clarify a situation which otherwise might be filled with doubt. This I will do through the medium of a much-quoted, but pungent phrase: "Nuts to you!"

  Eleanor Espere : Oh! Oh!

  [gasps and runs off] 

• Professor Post : Oh, what finishing school did you attend?

  Eleanor Espere : Uh, Notre Dame.

  Professor Post : Notre Dame? Notre Dame is not co-educational.

  Eleanor Espere : Uh, heh, well, I was very young, and you know...

  [she changes the subject] 

• Professor Post : [after Eleanor imitates an ancient Greek dance]  Now, that is authentic.

  Eleanor Espere : Uh, huh.

  Professor Post : But it would be much more effective if you were in the nude.

  James : [Falling off the piano stool]  Professor, professor! That's out - no nudes.

  Professor Post : But, James, it was done so in Athens.

  James : Yeah, they might get away with that in Athens --- that's a college town.