Stage Door (1937)

Margaret Early: Mary Lou

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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.

• Mary Lou : This will be my 35th performance as a spectator.

  Judy Canfield : Cheer up, Mary Lou. Someday the people on the stage will sit and watch the audience and you'll be a sensation.