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Playful Rich and Their Bedtime Stories
Taglines
Uncle Leo's bedtime story for you older tots! The things they do among the playful rich - Oh, boy!
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A Toast to Changing Tastes
Dexter
Orange juice, certainly.
Tracy
Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whiskey and whiskeys.
Dexter
No, no, no, no. I've just changed their color, that's all. I'm going for the pale pastel shades now. They're more becoming to me. How about you, Mr. Connor? You drink, don't you? Alcohol, I mean.
Mike
Oh, a little.
Dexter
A little, little. And you a writer? I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know one time, I think I secretly wanted to be a writer.
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Love and Society in Broadway Comedy
Taglines
Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - IN LOVE!
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Conflicting Perspectives on Love and Strength
Dexter
How in the world could you even think of it?
[about marrying George]
Tracy
Because he is everything you're not. He's been poor. He's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him, as I never even began to love you.
Dexter
Maybe so, but I doubt it. I think he's just a swing from me. But it's too violent a swing. Kittredge is no great tower of strength, you know, Tracy. He's just a tower.
Tracy
You hardly know him.
Dexter
To hardly know him is to know him well. And perhaps it offends my vanity to have anyone who is even remotely my wife re-marry so obviously beneath her.
Tracy
How dare you! Any of you in this day and age use such an idiotic...
Dexter
I'm talking about the difference in mind and spirit...Kittredge is not for you.
Tracy
You bet he's for me. He's a great man and a good man. Already, he's of national importance.
Dexter
You sound like Spy Magazine talking. But whatever he is, toots, you'll have to stick. He'll give you no out as I did.
Tracy
I won't require one.
Dexter
I suppose you'd still be attractive to any man of spirit, though. There's something engaging about it, this goddess business. There's something more challenging to the male than the, uh, more obvious charms.
Tracy
Really?
Dexter
Really. We're very vain, you know - This citadel can and shall be taken, and I'm the boy to do it.
Tracy
You seem quite contemptuous of me all of a sudden.
Dexter
No, Red, not of you, never of you. Red, you could be the finest woman on this earth. I'm contemptuous of something inside of you you either can't help, or make no attempt to; your so-called strength - your prejudice against weakness - your blank intolerance.
Tracy
Is that all?
Dexter
That's the gist of it; because you'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman, until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty. It's a pity your own foot can't slip a little sometime - but your sense of inner divinity wouldn't allow that. This goddess must and shall remain intact. There are more of you than people realize - a special class of the American Female. The Married Maidens.
Tracy
So help me, Dexter, if you say another word, I'll...
Dexter
I'm through, Red. For the moment, I've had my say.
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Desire for Change in a Boring Life
Dinah Lord
Oh, I wish something would happen! Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here!
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Inside the Life of Tracy Lord
Kidd
Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. The Unapproachable Miss Lord. The Philadelphia Story'...quote A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.
Mike
Or: What the Kitchen Maid Saw Through the Keyhole. unquote...quote No hunter of buckshot in the rear is Cagey Crafty Connor unquote, close paragraph.
Liz
Close job, close bank account. But Mr. Kidd, how can you possibly get inside the Lord estate, let alone the house?
Mike
Now we're not gonna do it, Liz, dawgonnit, it's degrading. It's undignified.
Liz
And so is an empty stomach. How do we get in?
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Confidence and Beauty in Conversation
Tracy
How do I look?
Mr. Lord
Like a queen - like a goddess.
Tracy
And do you know how I feel?
Mr. Lord
How?
Tracy
Like a human. Like a human being.
Mr. Lord
Do you know how I feel?
Tracy
How?
Mr. Lord
Proud.
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Acknowledgment of Personal Achievement
Dinah Lord
I did it. I did it all!
[watching the wedding, triumphant]
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Class Privilege and Romantic Decisions in Conflict
Mike
The prettiest sight in this fine, pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.
Tracy
You're a snob, Connor.
Mike
No doubt, no doubt...Tracy. You can't marry that guy.
Tracy
George? I'm going to. Why, why not?
Mike
Well, I don't know. I thought I'd be for it at first, but you just don't seem to match up.
Tracy
Then the fault's with me.
Mike
Well, maybe so, but all the same now, you can't do it.
Tracy
No?
Mike
No.
Tracy
Come around about noon tomorrow. I mean today. Snob.
Mike
What do ya mean, snob?
Tracy
You're the worst kind there is. An intellectual snob. You made up your mind awfully young, it seems to me.
Mike
Well, thirty's about time to make up your mind. And I'm nothing of the sort, not Mr. Connor.
Tracy
The time to make up your mind about people - is never.
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Reflections on Marriage and Choices
Tracy
If you just face the facts squarely as I did.
Margaret
We both might face the fact that neither of us have proved to be a very great success as a wife.
Tracy
We just picked the wrong first husbands, that's all.
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The Influence of Wealth on Perception
Dexter
I never saw you looking better, Red. You're getting that fine, tawny look.
Tracy
Oh, we're going to talk about me, are we? Goody.
Dexter
It's astonishing what money can do for people, don't you agree, Mr. Connor? Not too much, you know - just more than enough. Now take Tracy for example. Never a blow that hasn't been softened for her. Never a blow that won't be softened. As a matter of fact, she's even changed her shape - she was a dumpy little thing at one time.
Tracy
Only as it happens, I'm not interested in myself, for the moment.
Dexter
Not interested in yourself! You're fascinated, Red. You're far and away your favorite person in the world.
Tracy
Dexter, in case you don't know it -
Dexter
Of course, Mr. Connor, she's a girl who's generous to a fault.
Tracy
To a fault, Mr. Connor.
Dexter
Except to other people's faults. For instance, she never had any understanding of my deep and gorgeous thirst.
Tracy
That was your problem.
Dexter
Granted. But you took on that problem with me when you took me, Red. You were no help-mate there. You were a scold.
Tracy
It was disgusting. It made you so unattractive.
Dexter
A weakness, sure, and strength is her religion, Mr. Connor. She finds human imperfection unforgiveable. And when I gradually discovered that my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but - Oh, never mind.
[He turns away from her]
Tracy
Say it.
Dexter
But that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess, then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent, that's all.
[Mike slides off his chair and leaves them.]
Tracy
I never considered you as that, nor myself.
Dexter
You did without knowing it. Oh, and the night that you got drunk on champagne and climbed out on the roof and stood there, NAKED, with your arms out to the moon, wailing like a banshee -
[Dexter laughs at the thought.]
Tracy
I told you I never had the slightest recollection of doing any such thing.
Dexter
I know. You drew a blank. You wanted to. Mr. Connor, what would you... Oh.
[He turns and notices Mike has gone]
Tracy
A nice story for spies, incidentally.
Dexter
Too bad we can't supply photographs of you on the roof.
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Taking Risks in Relationships
Tracy
Dexter, are you sure?
[after Dexter has proposed]
Dexter
Not in the least. But I'll risk it. Will you?
Tracy
You bet! You didn't do it just to soften the blow?
Dexter
No.
Tracy
Nor to save my face?
Dexter
Oh, it's a nice little face.
Tracy
Oh Dexter, I'll be yar now, I promise to be yar.
Dexter
Be whatever you like, you're my redhead.
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The Nature of Relationships and Identity
George
You know, we're gonna represent something, Tracy, you and I in our home, something straight, sound, and fine. Then perhaps your friend Mr. Haven will be somewhat less condescending.
Tracy
George, you, you don't really mind him, do you? I mean, the fact of him...I mean...that he ever was my lord and master. That we ever were...
George
I don't believe he ever was, Tracy, not really. I don't believe that anyone ever was - or ever will be. That's the wonderful thing about you, Tracy.
Tracy
What? How?
George
Well, you're like some marvelous, distant, well, queen, I guess. You're so cool and fine and - and always so much your own. There's a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like, like a statue...
Tracy
George -
George
Oh, it's grand, Tracy. It's what everybody feels about you. It's what I first worshiped you for from afar.
Tracy
George, listen -
George
First, now, and always! Only from a little nearer now, eh, darling!
Tracy
I-I don't want to be worshiped. I want to be loved!
George
Well, you're that too, Tracy. Oh, you're that all right.
Tracy
I mean really loved.
George
But that goes without saying, Tracy.
Tracy
No. No, now it's you who doesn't see what I mean.
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