The Bachelor Father (1931)

Marion Davies: Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg

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• John Ashley : Sir Basil is a very charming, as well as, a very distinguished person.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, yeah? Well, my mother was distinguished too. *She* was a headliner.

  Mrs. 'Aunt Molly' Berney : She was that. And sure it was me that should know. Didn't I dress her and strip her from one end of the country to the other, huh?

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : If she makes any more cracks about my mother, I'll start something that will take the snap out of her garters

• Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : He'll never marry. He's all business. Not the marrying kind.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I don't care whether he is or not. He'll fall, when the right girl comes along.

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : No girl's going to get John.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yeah? Well, those that live the longest, will see the most.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Is this a gag or are you on the level? You mean to say that my father is a - a Duke or something?

  John Ashley : Your father is Sir Basil Winterton, VC, KCB, KCMG - Baron.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Can you tie that?

  John Ashley : Of course, you knew you had a father.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Well, I kinda suspected it.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : We didn't pick you for a father! If we had, you wouldn't have been such a flop.

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : If you talk to me like that, I'll put you across my knee and give you a darn good spanking.

• Geoffrey Trent : How are we to address you?

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yeah, what are we going to call ya?

  Geoffrey Trent : We feel that Sir Basil is a little too distant.

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Quite so. Of course, at the moment "father" is out of the question.

  John Ashley : I have it! Why not: Chief.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : That's it! Chief! We're all out of the same firehouse.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : John, you know the first time I saw you in New York, I knew you were a square-shooter.

  John Ashley : Thanks very much.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : And if the Chief had sent anybody but you to New York, I never would have come here.

  John Ashley : Oh, Tony. Its nice of you to say it, just the same.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I guess I'll have to go a step further.

  [moves closer] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : John, as far as I'm concerned, you could write your own ticket.

  John Ashley : Tony!

  [kiss] 

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, gosh. John, I have to go. I'll be right back.

  [kiss] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, I'll get my coat and I'll meet you in the garden.

  John Ashley : By the sundial.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yes.

  [kiss] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : And we'll pick up where we left off.

• Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : When I was young, girls never said these things. They never even thought them.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : That's why they never said them.

• Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I've done nothing but spoil you.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Why shouldn't you? Aren't I your favorite little accident?

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Gee, I'm nuts about him.

  John Ashley : Is that the same as being: goofy?

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Well, the same. Only to be goofy is a little bit more, eh, passionate. If you know what I mean.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : If anybody tries to get gay with you, you just kick 'em on the shins.

• Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Well, they're gone.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Gee, Chief, you talk as if they were dead.

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I shall miss them.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, cheer up. I can annoy you enough for the whole bunch.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Gee, it's a peach!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I'm going away! And that's the whole thing in a nut hole. I mean, nut shell. I mean...

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Nut hole, is what you're trying to say.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : No it isn't! Nut *shell* is what I'm trying to say!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I'm not kidding, Dick. I want you to take me.

• [repeated line] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Horses!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Holy mackerel!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I said I'd like to talk to Sir Basil alone! Now, there are two ways to go out of this room. Take your choice: vertical or horizontal!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : When I love somebody, no matter what the other party does, I go on loving them just the same. That's the way I am.