Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Edward Everett Horton: Leander 'Bunny' Nolan

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• Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : Are you ill, Mr. Nolan?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : What?

  Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : Are you ill?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No...No...A thought just struck me.

  Miss Sutton, Neff's Secretary : That's too bad.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I haven't seen little Marion now for many years. Oh, she was pretty as a spotted pup that last Spring in Knoxville.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You must have been in on the beginning of her career.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Yes. She had just started her painting.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : I wasn't thinking of painting.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : A gentleman, sir, doesn't bend your lady's name about - lest of all in her own parlor!

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : That's were I have the edge on you. I'm no gentleman.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You talk like a Communist.

  Richard 'Dickie' Kurt : You talk like a Senator!

• Slade Kinnicott : Oh, never mind, dear. She seems to be getting on all right.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : How do you know?

  [Slades shows the newspaper article] 

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Oh, well, yes. Outwardly gay, perhaps. But, who knows?

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Marion, why you're evil. Oh, you haven't the face of evil. But, you're evil. Evil!

  Marion Forsythe : Bunny, darling, you can't possibly mean that. I might just as well say that you're evil because you're intolerant. These things are just differences in temperament, that's all.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That is sophistry.

  Marion Forsythe : Oh, come on. Have cup of tea with me, huh?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, I - I...

  Marion Forsythe : Would your constituents object to your having a cup of tea with a notorious woman?

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : All these years I've been wanting to see you to get it off my mind.

  Marion Forsythe : Did you want to have the last word, Bunny?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I wanted to see you, to stand before you, to tell myself, "Here she is and what of it."

  Marion Forsythe : I know exactly how you feel. Like having a tooth out.

• Marion Forsythe : You shouldn't let anything fret you that happened so long ago.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Oh, I know, I know. You're just saying that to solve my conscience. But, I won't have it. I know my guilt and I'm going to bear it.

  Marion Forsythe : Of course, I don't want to deprive you of any of your little pleasures.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I've never been done in oils.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm not a Bohemian.

  Marion Forsythe : You're not going to tell me you're a gypsy, Bunny?

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Really, I wish you wouldn't call me Bunny.

  Marion Forsythe : Well, I always did! What is your real name?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Why you know, perfectly well.

  Marion Forsythe : I swear I don't.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : My name is Leander.

  Marion Forsythe : Now, Bunny, really?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : That's my name.

  Marion Forsythe : Really? Oh! I'd forgotten. Leander. Who was he? He did something in the Hellespont, didn't he? What did he do in the Hellespont?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, Marion, that's beside the point.

• Marion Forsythe : Are you vertical or horizontal, Bunny?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : I'm both.

• Marion Forsythe : Stop fidgeting, Bunny. Now, how can I...

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's like being watched while you're taking a bath.

• Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : I'm not narrow and what people don't know doesn't hurt 'em.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No, if they don't know.

• Mr. Kinnicott's Secretary : Are you ill?

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : No. No, no. No, a thought just struck me.

  Mr. Kinnicott's Secretary : Oh, that's too bad.

• Mr. Orrin Kinnicott : I'll handle him. And if you want me to, I'll handle her.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : Well, I'd - oh, no, no. Orrin, I don't want to trouble you. If you'll handle him. I'll handle her.

• Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : You'd forgotten me yourself.

  Marion Forsythe : Forgotten? Oh, no. No, the Bunny I remembered was another Bunny.

• Marion Forsythe : She'll be very, very proud of you Bunny.

  Leander 'Bunny' Nolan : It's funny. Very funny.