Riptide (1934)

Norma Shearer: Lady Mary Rexford

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• Mary : Listen, I tell you what. We'll go up to my sister Sylvia's. There's some fun going on up there! Do you like mad parties?

  Lord Rexford : Well, yes, I-I think I do. Thank you very much.

  Mary : Good! What's your name?

  Lord Rexford : Rexford.

  Mary : Rexford... well, you run along home and get on a nice little dinner dress and pick me up in an hour. How's that?

  Lord Rexford : Right!

  Mary : Right! No, wrong! I'll pick you up. That'll be good and step on it!

• Mary : How did you know I wanted a highball?

  Lord Rexford : Just instinct.

  Mary : Sweet.

  Lord Rexford : And you too.

• Lord Rexford : Mary, this is it!

  Mary : What?

  Lord Rexford : Us!

  Mary : Us? You mean, me, Lady Rexford?

  Lord Rexford : Yes, dear!

  Mary : Oh, darling, after all those things I told you about me? Think now, think hard.

  Lord Rexford : I have thought. It's all forgotten! Oh, isn't it?

  Mary : Yes, if you say so. Buried and forgotten. Only you in the world. Oh, are you sure you can forgive it all?

  Lord Rexford : Forgiven!

  Mary : Forgiven? Alright! From now on, a ring in the nose and a beating every Saturday night, please. Ha-ha.

• Mary : Aunt Hetty, you're very naughty.

  Aunt Hetty : Of course, I am. Why not?

  Mary : Why not. I was once.

  Aunt Hetty : Hmmm. I'm sure you were.

• Aunt Hetty : My dear gal, come with me to Cannes!

  Mary : What?

  Aunt Hetty : Come and stay with me at Cannes!

  Mary : Oh, that sounds divine!

  Aunt Hetty : You need sunshine and laughter and a coat of tan.

  Mary : Get the behind me Satan.

  Aunt Hetty : You need music!

• Mary : Come on you, chaperone me. I'll get him out! He looked my way once in New York.

  Erskine : Lucky you.

  Aunt Hetty : Now, what does that mean in American, look my way?

  Mary : That means making a pass, darling. Making a pass!

• Mary : Ha-ha-ha. You're mad! Just beautifully batty! You're always reaching out for something, somewhere, some how.

• Tommie Trent : Forget all that solid routine that they call living. Spread your wings and flutter with me sometimes.

  Mary : Ha-ha. I forgot how to flutter.

  Tommie Trent : I can teach you! Wouldn't it be fun! Wouldn't it be marvelous! Think of the thrill of knowing that just around the corner there was fun and laughter.

• House Detective : Do you speak French, Madam?

  Mary : I do, but I'm not in the mood. What is it?

• Mary : Well, you might have been killed, I suppose you know that.

  Tommie Trent : Would you really care? Really?

  Mary : Of course. What do you think I'm made of?

  Tommie Trent : Rainbows.

• Mary : So, men must work and women must - what?

• Mary : I had to do something. I couldn't keep following you around the house, on my knees, waiting for you to come out of this coma.

• Mary : No man's gonna let me or not let me do anything ever again.

• Mary : You're completely you, and I'm... well, I don't know what I am.

• Mary : [Talking on the phone]  Hello. Hello? What? Oh, ha-ha, no, No, not tonight. I'm going to that Freelinghouser ball. Yeah. No, I can't, I-I stood her up once before, I can't do that. What? I know it's insane but, it might be fun. Ha-ha. My costume's beginning to fall off already, I think everyone else's will too!

• Mary : Were you really the beetle?

  Lord Rexford : I was the beetle.

• Lord Rexford : May I?

  Mary : If you want to, old beetle.

  [Kiss] 

• Mary : And do I know Tommy? The old slouch, where is he?

  Erskine : He's in bed with his miseries.

  Aunt Hetty : With who?

  Mary : No names, please - even among cads.

• Tommie Trent : See that the lady has nothing that she wants, Erskine. I'll return in a jiffy.

  Erskine : You'll never be missed.

  Mary : Ha-ha. He's a scream.

  Erskine : See these gray hairs? Try living with him for a week.

  Mary : Might be stimulating.

  Erskine : Look at me. I-I'm stimulated.

  Mary : Oh! Is that what you call it?

• Tommie Trent : Oh. Oh. Oh my, oh my, oh my. What an age. What a world.

  Mary : What's wrong with it? I find it a very pleasant world.

  Tommie Trent : It's all part of the coming of the great catastrophe.

  Mary : What is?

  Tommie Trent : When girls like you turn out to be prudes!

• Tommie Trent : A leopard cannot change its spots. No more can you, duckie.

  Mary : Can't a woman forget her past, whatever its been, when she marries and settles down?

• Tommie Trent : We could be happy, too, Mary. Two people like us.

  Mary : I am happy.

  Tommie Trent : No, I mean two kindred spirits, like you and me.

  Mary : How?

  Tommie Trent : They could, eh, they could sleep all day. They could get up just when the evening was gonna get gay and they could dance and take long walks into the moonlight. Then, back and change and out on horses and riding into the dawn. Just when everybody else was waking up to face the day, they could be flitting in and out of warm shower baths and pulling down the blinds on trouble and bores and telephones. Then, they'd be up in the evening and drink steaming hot coffee and pull up the shades and let that ol' moon in again. It would be paradise, wouldn't it? They'd be children of the night.

  Mary : [Smiling]  Satan!

• Mary : [Looking at her daughter's drawing]  What is that? How can you have a horse without a tail? Ha-ha. You silly willy!

• Lord Rexford : Oh, no, Sweetheart, I'm sorry, too. I-I didn't mean to blow up. I made myself, promise myself, that I wouldn't.

  Mary : Did you? I don't mind. You should blow up. I want you to blow up.

• Lord Rexford : Well, go on - darling.

  Mary : Don't say darling like that, darling.

• Mary : And now I'll tell you the truth, judge. Ha-ha. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me.

  Lord Rexford : I suppose it is amusing. It makes me a little ill.

• Mary : Slap me in the face, shout, knock me down, but, don't keep this up. I was wrong, I know it. But, I'm in tact if that means anything to you.

  Lord Rexford : You make it sound quite remarkable.

• Tommie Trent : Have a drink?

  Mary : Love to!

  Tommie Trent : Name it!

  Mary : Eh, French 75.

  Tommie Trent : Same here. French 75, boom!

  Mary : Boom yourself! And everyone else.

  Tommie Trent : That a girl.