Girls on Probation (1938)

Jane Bryan: Connie Heath

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• Connie Heath : Oh, Hilda, by the way, Mr. Todd's plenty burnt up about you playing around with boys so much. You better kinda keep your mind on your work.

  Hilda Engstrom : Boys are my work! There's no future in the cleaning business.

  Connie Heath : Well, what future is there in sitting around from one man to another?

  Hilda Engstrom : Oh, I should stay at home and sit around all the time like you do.

  Connie Heath : I don't sit around. I'm just waiting for the right one, that's all.

  Hilda Engstrom : Yeah, when he comes along, he'll probably be signed up with another dame.

• Connie Heath : There's nothing wrong with Hilda.

  Roger Heath : Don't tell me about that one. That brainless hussy flirts with every man she meets. First thing you know, you will turn out same as she is!

  Connie Heath : She just stopped in to help me fix an evening dress for a party tomorrow night.

  Roger Heath : What party?

  Connie Heath : We're just going dancing, that's all.

  Roger Heath : Well, you can't go! Not with that wench!

• Todd : [to Connie]  This is Miss Adams, one of our customers. She left this dress at the Porter Street branch to be cleaned.

  Gloria Adams : [sarcastically]  And you can imagine how delighted that I was to see you dancing in it at the Hula House last night!

  Connie Heath : Are you sure it's the same dress?

  Gloria Adams : You know it is!

• Neil Dillon : Well, as I get this you wanted to go to a party and knock some poor guy for a loop with a swell gown so you helped yourself to Gloria's dress. All of which goes to prove that crime doesn't pay.

  Connie Heath : I'm not a criminal!

• Connie Heath : Why, Hilda, I didn't know you were in Ardmore.

• Jane Lennox : You said you were innocent; but, one would think you actually wanted to go to prison. Do you?

  Connie Heath : No! No girl wants that.

  Jane Lennox : A woman's prison is a tough place for a girl like you. It'll break you down and leave a stain you can never wash out.

• Jane Lennox : There must be someone who loves you. Perhaps a man somewhere?

  Connie Heath : There's no one.

  Jane Lennox : Now, that's hard to believe. A young girl like you only 22 and no one who cares for her? Why, I'm much older than you with only half your looks; but, there's a man who says he loves me.

• Connie Heath : Congratulations.

  Neil Dillon : Why?

  Connie Heath : Well, I heard that you were going to be married to Miss Adams.

  Neil Dillon : There are wars and rumors of wars. But, I'm still neutral.

• Neil Dillon : You must be tired.

  Connie Heath : Not terribly.

  Neil Dillon : I know I am. You're sweet.

  [kiss] 

  Connie Heath : Must you do that!

  Neil Dillon : You mean to tell me you didn't expect me to?

  Connie Heath : I know bosses are expected to take advantage of their secretaries when they keep them working at night. But, Mr. Dillon! I thought you were different.

  Neil Dillon : Miss Heath! Do you dare deny that for the past six months you subtly encouraged me and lead me on?

  Connie Heath : I make an amendment to that complaint. I've been encouraging you and leading you on ever since I came to work here. But, I don't think I was very subtle about it.

  Neil Dillon : That calls for a rebuttal.

  Connie Heath : Objection!

  Neil Dillon : Objection, overruled.

  [kiss] 

  Neil Dillon : Get back to work.

  Connie Heath : Yes, sir.