Stage Door (1937)

Eve Arden: Eve

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• Eve : [after a dinner where Terry Randall has evidently spoken very eloquently about Shakespeare]  Well, I don't like to gossip, but that new gal seems to have an awful crush on Shakespeare!

  Susan : [jokingly]  I wouldn't be surprised if they get married!

  Mary Lou : [with genuine naiveté]  Oh, you're foolin'! Shakespeare's dead!

  Susan : [Feigning surprise, playing along to entertain the others]  No!

  Mary Lou : Well, if he's the same one that wrote "Hamlet", he is!

  Eve : [playing along, too]  Never heard of it.

  Mary Lou : Well, certainly you must have heard of "Hamlet"!

  Eve : Well, I meet so many people.

• Eve : A pleasant little foursome. I predict a hatchet murder before the night's over.

• Eve : It must have been counterfeit. There's no such thing as a fifty dollar bill.

  Judy Canfield : You know, I think she's as phony as that bill.

• Terry Randall : The trouble with you is you're all trying to be comics. Don't you ever take anything seriously?

  Judy Canfield : After you've sat around for a year trying to get a job, you won't take anything seriously either.

  Terry Randall : Well, do you have to just sit around and do nothing about it?

  Judy Canfield : Maybe it's in the blood. My grandfather sat around until he was 80.

  Terry Randall : Well, my grandfather didn't. And if he and a lot of others hadn't crossed the country in a covered wagon, there'd still be Indians living in Wichita.

  Eve : Who do you think's living there now?

• Kay Hamilton : Do you have appointments too?

  Judy Canfield : We're waiting for Randall. If she doesn't crack Powell's office by two o'clock, she's buying us lunch.

  Eve : We're starting off with caviar. Oh, not that small sturgeon kind; but, nice big whale caviar.

• Jean Maitland : Hey, you're not gonna catch the opening tonight, huh?

  Eve : No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing.

• Eve : You can't have peace without a war.

• Terry Randall : You sound very superior. What have you ever done in the theater?

  Eve : Everything but burst out of a pie at a Rotarian banquet.

• Eve : Looks like there's a new Queen Bee buzzing around the hive.

  Judy Canfield : Well, it seems to be the same King.

• Eve : I'll never put my trust in males again.

  Terry Randall : What happened to Eve?

  Jean Maitland : She's brokenhearted. Henry's in a cat hospital.

  Terry Randall : An accident?

  Jean Maitland : He just had a litter of kittens.

  Terry Randall : Well, that's easy to solve. Change his name to Henrietta.

• Susan : Hang onto your chairs girls, we're going to get another load of Shakespeare.

  Terry Randall : Is it against the rules of the house to discuss the classics?

  Eve : No. Go right ahead. I won't take my sleeping pill tonight.

• Jean Maitland : Hey, you're not going to catch the opening tonight, huh?

  Eve : No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing.