Marilyn Monroe credited as playing...
Nell Forbes
- Jed Towers: Hello. Are you the girl in 809?
- Nell Forbes: Why, yes. Who is
- [Jed answers before Nell finishes her question]
- Jed Towers: I'm the guy in 821, across the court. Can I ask you a question?
- Nell Forbes: I don't know; I suppose so. Are you sure you want me?
- Jed Towers: Yeah, you're the one I want, all right. Are you doing anything you couldn't be doing better with somebody else?
- Nell Forbes: I guess I'll have to hang up!
- Jed Towers: Why? You cant get hurt on a telephone.
- Nell Forbes: Who are you?
- Jed Towers: I told you. The man across the way; a lonely soul.
- Nell Forbes: You sound peculiar.
- Jed Towers: I'm not peculiar; I'm just frustrated. And I got a bottle of rye. And as I was saying, what are you doing?
- Nell Forbes: What's your name?
- Jed Towers: Uh... Billy.
- Nell Forbes: Oh...
- Jed Towers: What's the matter? Don't you like Billy?
- Jed Towers: Why didn't you tell me you were working here?
- Nell Forbes: I'm not. I'm just doing it for the night.
- Jed Towers: Yeah, I know. You're an heiress. Tomorrow morning, you ride through your estate sidesaddle.
- Nell Forbes: She made you say that!
- Nell Forbes: I like you.
- Jed Towers: Thanks.
- Nell Forbes: I'll probably dream about you tonight.
- Jed Towers: Don't be rash.
- Bunny Jones: Are you tattooed?
- Nell Forbes: No. Are you?
- Bunny Jones: Not now. But I'm gonna be when I grow up.
- Nell Forbes: You could have stuff like this, Nell. Kimonos, and rings, and toilet water with Italian names. A handsome girl like you.
- Eddie Forbes: No, I can't! I can't!
- Nell Forbes: You came over to flirt, didn't you?
- Jed Towers: Well, I guess that was the general idea.
- Nell Forbes: I don't mind. As long as you're not grouchy about it.
- Jed Towers: Oh, I'm never grouchy.
- Jed Towers: How are you going? To South America.
- Nell Forbes: Oh. By sea. Are you really going? How?
- Jed Towers: By turtle. I own a big turtle, I'm gonna ride on his back.
- Nell Forbes: [giggles] Well, some day I will. I'm going to go down there and drink a lot of coffee. I'm going to talk to all the parrots. Maybe we'll go together.
- Nell Forbes: I haven't had earrings on for three years. All through high school, I never had a dress to wear out at night. If I liked a boy, my folks would whip me. When I went away from them, I didn't cry. A month ago, I came here on a bus from Oregon. At night on the highway, we'd pass those big trucks with those little lights all over them - like Christmas trees. And then I was here. I'd walk down the street, look in the beautiful stores. Eddie calls it "window-wishing." Then I got this job tonight.
- [looks down at negligee she's wearing]
- Nell Forbes: And this was hanging up. And the earrings. I couldn't help it. I was gonna put them back.
- Nell Forbes: If you go, then none of it can be true.
- Jed Towers: None of what? Half the time, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Jed Towers: I can't figure you out. You're silk on one side and sandpaper on the other.
- Nell Forbes: I'll be any way you want me to be.
- Nell Forbes: He tries to get tough. He doesn't have any respect what people really want. I know what I mean.
- Jed Towers: You mean he hasn't got an understanding heart.
- Nell Forbes: Yes, that's it exactly. He's not the way you are at all.
- Jed Towers: Now, look, my odd bird, everybody's entitled to his own little kinks; but, nothing like this.
- Nell Forbes: He insulted me.
- Jed Towers: That's no reason for murder.