A Damsel in Distress (1937)

Montagu Love: Lord Marshmorton

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• Lord John Marshmorton : Miss Allen, is he coming here tonight, your friend Mr. Halliday?

  Gracie : Oh, well sure he's not coming here and do you know why he's not coming here tonight? Because he wasn't invited, that's why he's not coming here tonight, Lord Marshmallow.

  George : Gracie, it's Marshmorton, not Marshmallow.

  Gracie : That's what I said, Marshmallow.

  George : Look, Gracie, "marshmallow" is soft and mushy.

  Gracie : Oh, please, George! You don't know this gentleman well enough to say that about him.

  George : [to Lord Marshmorton]  I'm sorry, would you explain that please?

  Lord John Marshmorton : Certainly. Miss Allen, have you ever seen a toasted marshmallow?

  Gracie : No, but I'm dying to see that. I bet you're a scream!

• Lady Caroline : Keggs, repeat to his lordship what you just told me.

  Keggs : Very good, my lady. I have been informed by the cook, who was informed by the second footman, who was informed by the scullery maid, who heard it from the milkman.

  Reggie : You forgot the first maid, Keggs.

  Lord John Marshmorton : Will you shut up... Go ahead, man. What did the syndicate tell you?

• Lord Marshmorton : What do you mean, "Well, John?" What do you expect me to do?

  Lady Caroline : You will go and horsewhip him immediately.

  Lord Marshmorton : Oh, but I-I couldn't possibly. Why, I-I hardly know the fellow.

  Lady Caroline : You will horsewhip him directly you've had breakfast.

  Lord Marshmorton : Oh, all right, I'll think it over.

• Lord Marshmorton : I don't think the Marshmortons are fenced off from the rest of the world by some sort of divinity. My sister does, but she's such an ass.

  Jerry Halliday : Isn't she? I mean, is she?

  Lord Marshmorton : Of course she is! Always has been.

• Butler : Beg your pardon, your lordship.

  Lord Marshmorton : What is it?

  Butler : Milk, m'lord.

  Lord Marshmorton : Milk? What am I - a baby or a cow? Take it away!

• Reggie : Right-ho!

  Lord Marshmorton : And stop saying "Right-ho".

  Reggie : Right-ho!

• Lord Marshmorton : You said just now you didn't?

  Lady Alyce : I didn't say I didn't. I said I did!

• Lord Marshmorton : He's a stranger.

  Lady Alyce : But he's not a stranger. That is, in a way he is, and he isn't.

• Lord Marshmorton : Whoever he is, I told him you were potty about him.

• Lord Marshmorton : Your poor mother used to slap me frequently before we got engaged. You think I minded? Of course I didn't! It showed she was beginning to take an interest in me. Every time I kissed her, she slapped me. And every time she slapped me, she came and apologized. And every time she apologized, I kissed her again and before long, there we were in a private suite shaking the confetti out of our hair.

• Lady Alyce : He's done it again.

  Lord Marshmorton : What a man!

• Lord Marshmorton : Though you may not imagine it, my boy, I had a reputation in those days of being quite a fellow with the ladies. I can tell you an episode with a tobacconist's assistant that, um... Well, that's neither here nor there.

• Lord Marshmorton : I believe you're moonstruck. Your poor mother always got very eccentric around a full moon. Used to write poetry about elves and gnomes and things.