Penelope (1966)

Ian Bannen: James B. Elcott

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• James B. Elcott : [His bank has been trying to contact her regarding an inheritance]  I've written you 9 times in the last 2 months... You're certain you never received any of my letters?

  Penelope : Ah, I know what happened... You see, I never open my mail.

  James B. Elcott : Oh. Who does it for you?

  Penelope : Nobody.

  James B. Elcott : What happens to it?

  Penelope : Well, usually I stick it away in a drawer someplace, and then I always forget it. Or, it gets lost.

  James B. Elcott : Don't you lose a lot of friends that way?

  Penelope : Oh, no. Just the opposite! You see, if you write me a letter, and I answer it, then you have to answer mine. Then I answer your second letter, and you have to write me a third in answer to my second, and then I have to write you a third, and you have to send me a fourth. And pretty soon we're so busy writing letters to each other, we haven't got time to be friends. Isn't that true?

• James B. Elcott : Your shoes? Where are your shoes, darling?

  Penelope : Oh, wouldn't you know it? I left them in the taxi.

  James B. Elcott : Last week, it was in the elevator.

• James B. Elcott : You've got a lot of boyfriends, haven't you?

  Penelope : Hmm. You're my first banker.

  James B. Elcott : Why all this shopping around?

  Penelope : Well, if you don't try everything- how are you gonna find out what you really like?

  James B. Elcott : Out of the mouths of babes.

  [kiss] 

  Penelope : Again.

• Penelope : And now I'd like to get up, please.

  James B. Elcott : Pardon?

  Penelope : You're kneeling on my hair.

• James B. Elcott : Oh, Gregory, you should have known me in the days before you knew me. I was vague, frivolous. You might even say a bit of a ding.

• James B. Elcott : He's not doing a very good job of helping you by humoring these fantasies of yours.

• James B. Elcott : Last night at three in the morning you were in bed - next to me.

  Penelope : Well, what's wrong with that? We're married.

• Taxi Driver : I know. Follow that cab.

  James B. Elcott : No, no, I'm looking for a girl.

  Taxi Driver : Who ain't?

  James B. Elcott : And she'd have just come out of the bank.

  Taxi Driver : With a real nice wiggle?

  James B. Elcott : Yes, yes.

• James B. Elcott : Would you mind doing me a favor?

  Mildred : Oh, anything, anything.

  James B. Elcott : Try kissing somebody else for a change, huh?

  Mildred : Well, honestly, I do, but I just don't enjoy it as much.

• James B. Elcott : That face. However, for a moment, you looked just like my wife.

  Taxi Driver : And I thought mine was a dog.

• James B. Elcott : A double scotch.

  Party Bartender : Soda or over the rocks?

  James B. Elcott : Over another double scotch.

  Mildred : Ooh, yummy, I'll drink to that.