When Ladies Meet (1941)

Spring Byington: Bridget Drake

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• Bridget Drake : Well, for goodness sake, what's the matter with you people? Don't you know what beds are for? Or do you? Or is that the wrong thing to say?

• Bridget Drake : Quiet, Walter. we're being literary.

• Clare Woodruf : I'm afraid we're being a terrible nuisance.

  Bridget Drake : Oh, not at all. Nuisances are my specialty.

• Bridget Drake : Oh, Jimmy, willI stick to that chair?

  Jimmy Lee : Well, it depends on how sticky you are.

• Bridget Drake : I bet you can't guess what we've been doing?

  Jimmy Lee : I thought that's what we weren't supposed to guess.

  Bridget Drake : Oohh, Jimmy! We ve went down to Greenwich Village to look at some pictures. And I said to Walter, as long as we've gone this far, we might as well go the whole way.

  Jimmy Lee : You said that to Walter!

• Bridget Drake : I saw you going around with a pencil in your hand, but I didn't know anything was going on - anything creative, I mean. The creative business is so funny. You never do know when it's going on.

• Jimmy Lee : She's a lady. A perfect lady.

  Bridget Drake : Oh... well bring her in anyway.

• Bridget Drake : When's your book coming out, Mary?

  Mary Howard : In a couple of months.

  Walter Del Canto : What's it about?

  Jimmy Lee : [interrupting as Mary is about to answer, with the description being like how Mary would like her life to be]  Uh, it's about a girl - noble, fine, high principled - is'n love with a married man. Great love, the real thing! He goes for her like a steam roller. But does she try to back away from him? Not in the least. She goes for him... hook, line and sinker.

  Walter Del Canto : And how does it end?

  Jimmy Lee : She sinks!

  Mary Howard : [glaring angrily at Jimmy]  I'm working on the ending now.

  Bridget Drake : [excitedly, then stopping mid-sentence when she realizes what she is about to say]  I'm crazy to read it, Mary! I usually don't like your...

  Mary Howard : [comforting Bridget by cradling the nape of her neck]  Ah, darling.

  Bridget Drake : [embarrassed]  Oh my. Isn't it hot.

• Bridget Drake : I do hope you won't be bored, Jimmy.

  Jimmy Lee : [sarcastically]  Bored? Why, literary receptions are my very life's blood.

• Bridget Drake : [together by themselves on the balcony]  Walter, be amusing... like Jimmy.

  Mary Howard : [together by themselves in the parlor]  Jimmy, now try to be nice, like Walter.

• Bridget Drake : Walt, why don't you say bright things like that? O, I mean, you're clever too, only not so amusing. Oh, what I mean is, us...

• Jimmy Lee : Say, what I wanna know is why I'm out in the barn all alone. I'm house-broken.

  Bridget Drake : Because I haven't any other rooms, idiot.

• Bridget Drake : Mmm, going to a nightclub to write a last chapter?

  Jimmy Lee : Or to begin a first one.

• Bridget Drake : This is Waler Del Canto.

  Walter Del Canto : Uh, how do you do.

  Bridget Drake : Walt is my decorator. He'd doing me over. Well, I mean, he's doing over my place in the country.

• Bridget Drake : Walt, be amusing, like Jimmy.

  Mary Howard : Jimmy, never try and be nice, like Walter.

• Mary Howard : Your suspicions, Bridget, are out of order. Mr. Woodruf is a married man.

  Bridget Drake : But of course. The good ones are. Somebody's always beating you to it.

• Bridget Drake : What's the matter with you, Jimmy, are you tight?

  Jimmy Lee : No, certainly not. That's why I'm so nervous.

• Bridget Drake : Mary's such a fool, but I love her for it. It makes me feel so close to her.

• Bridget Drake : You know, death isn't nature's greatest mistake - falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh, my goodness, so would all the fun.

• Bridget Drake : This creative business is so funny. You never do know when it's going on.

• Bridget Drake : Have you ever tried to make something out of nothing, Mrs. Clare?

  Jimmy Lee : Un, she's working on me now, Bridgie.

• Bridget Drake : Of course, there's no denying it - the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.

• Bridget Drake : Jimmy said that Mrs. Clare is some kind of cousin.

  Mary Howard : Ohhh? You didn't tell me you had a cousin, Jimmy.

  Jimmy Lee : Well, there're cousins and cousins. Heh. She's the kind you don't talk about.

• Bridget Drake : Mary, do you think I ought to ask them to stay for dinner?

  Mary Howard : It looks as though Jimmy's already decided that for you.

• Bridget Drake : If I were you, Mary, I'd never forgive Jimmy. If a woman must make a fool of herself, the least a man can do is let her be one in her own way. Of course, it's happened to me so often, I never expect anything else. I mean, making a mistake about a man. But when it happens to an intelligent woman like you... .

• Bridget Drake : Walter, Walter, the smelling salts. It isn't the lightning, it's the electricity.

• Walter Del Canto : What in the world are you doing down here, Bridget?

  Bridget Drake : Me? I'm a ship in the fog tooting a horn.

• Bridget Drake : You know, I think we're awfully cozy, we three. You see, most women who know anything treat me as though I didn't. But you and Mary don't.