Love Before Breakfast (1936)

Preston Foster: Scott Miller

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• Kay Colby : Incidentally, what's happened to the Count? Where is he?

  Scott Miller : Where are the snows of yesteryear?

  Kay Colby : Where the woodbine twineth.

  Scott Miller : That's where the Count is.

• Scott Miller : Is this youngster annoying you?

  Kay Colby : Not at all.

  Scott Miller : Be a good Scout, sonny, and toddle back to your table.

  Kay Colby : I wish you'd stop interfering with my affairs.

  Scott Miller : Oh, I didn't know this was an affair.

  Kay Colby : Well, whatever it is, I can do without you nicely.

  First College Boy : Madam, is this old gentleman annoying you?

  Kay Colby : Yes. Very decidedly.

  First College Boy : So maybe you'd better totter back to your table.

• Scott Miller : How do I look?

  Kay Colby : Like a street cleaner.

  Scott Miller : Come, come, come now. You can't win me with flattery.

• Scott Miller : I've come to take you to the ball.

  Kay Colby : Oh, you have? Well, I hope you can bear up on it, but I'm going with Stuart Farnum.

  Scott Miller : I'm sorry, but you're going with me.

  Kay Colby : I told you I was going with Stu.

  Scott Miller : Stu? How vulgar. Is that a name or a condition?

  Kay Colby : That's his name.

  Scott Miller : Strange. It's also his condition.

  Kay Colby : He's gonna take me if he has to go on a stretcher.

• Scott Miller : Now that we're engaged, I hope we'll see each other occasionally.

  Kay Colby : Whatever is customary, Mr. Miller.

• Scott Miller : Well, Brinkie's off on one of his short stories again. Probably last an hour. He doesn't even know I left him. Still talking.

  Mrs. Colby : That's cruel, Scott.

  Scott Miller : He doesn't care. The other day while he was spinning his favorite yarn at the club his audience changed three times. He never knew the difference.

• Scott Miller : Are you actually smiling?

  Kay Colby : No. I'm only giving my face a rest.

• [talking through intercom] 

  Secretary : Miss Colby's lunching with Mr. Wadsworth.

  Scott Miller : Ask her if she can dine with me tonight. Tell her my favorite opera's on at the Met.

  Secretary : What opera shall I say?

  Scott Miller : I don't know. Look it up in the paper.

• Brinkerhoff : I tell you, the girl loves you. You don't think she cares anything about this Wadsworth, do you? Now the smart thing to do is just what she doesn't expect. Instead of being sore about him, uh, take the opposite tact. Make him your pal. Build him up. Give him a better job. Take every obstacle out of their way so she can't have the slightest excuse *not* to marry him. And then, watch her squirm.

  Scott Miller : How do you know so much about women?

  Brinkerhoff : I'm a bachelor.

• Scott Miller : It's a funny world, isn't it?

  Kay Colby : What's funny about it?

  Scott Miller : Well, the Countess wants to marry me.

  Kay Colby : You're afraid?

  Scott Miller : You want to marry Bill and I want to marry you. Quite a problem, isn't it?

• Scott Miller : I wish you wouldn't go. I wanted to take you to the dog show - and showing the cutest little animals you ever saw. Pekingese you'd be mad about. Oh, you don't like Pekingese. That's right. I remember now. You're definitely not the Pekingese type. You know, the first time I saw you, I said to myself: now, there's a girl who's definitely...

  Kay Colby : Not the Pekingese type!

  [leaves] 

  Scott Miller : Bulldog, maybe; but, not Pekingese.

• Kay Colby : This isn't going to be any 'Taming of the Shrew', you know. I'm not gonna come crawling after you've broken my spirit.

  Scott Miller : I'll take my chance.

  Kay Colby : It's a long one!

• Mrs. Colby : I've got to get over there. We can't leave them unchaperoned all night!

  Scott Miller : Why not? That's what she wants, isn't it?

• Scott Miller : You're getting right into that bed, as soon as you get out of that mustard bath.

  Kay Colby : Who do you think you're talking to?

  Scott Miller : You heard what I said. You get into that bed and stay there! I don't want any more annoyance from you.

• Scott Miller : If you were a man I'd poke you right in the nose.

  Kay Colby : Wouldn't that be repeating yourself!

  Scott Miller : I should have hit you harder!

• Kay Colby : You stop yelling at me! You, you - button pusher!

  Scott Miller : You bet I'm a button pusher and I'm gonna keep right on being a button pusher until the day I die and, what's more, you're going to like it!

• Mr. Miller's Assistant : I've been getting the information you asked for on William Wadsworth.

  Scott Miller : Oh, well, let's have it.

  Mr. Miller's Assistant : He's been working for Amalgamated, here, two years as Field Assistant. He's supposed to be engaged to Miss Kay Colby; but, I find that he's also rather - involved - with a lady on 78th Street.

• Scott Miller : [Telephones Kay to see if she got the puppy he sent her with flowers]  Oh, hello, Kay. How are you today?

  Kay Colby : [Tries to imitate her Japanese maid]  Miss Kruby no come on phone now. Miss Kruby very busy drowning nasty little dog.

• Scott Miller : How do you know so much about women?

  Brinkerhoff : I'm a bachelor.