First a Girl (1935)
Jessie Matthews: Elizabeth
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Quotes
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[pointing to male dressing room]
Elizabeth : [to Victor] Listen - I've put your trousers on, but I'm not going to take them off in *there*!
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Victor : [He leans towards her as they sit on the bed] You've given me an idea.
Elizabeth : [nervously] Have I?
Victor : [leans closer] You can do something for me.
Elizabeth : [looking apprehensive] Can I?
Victor : [eagerly] Take off those pyjamas.
Elizabeth : [appalled] *What*?
Victor : Put this on!
[he produces a slinky dress and high-heeled boots and sits down with his back turned]
Victor : Now I tell you what we'll do...
Elizabeth : [affronted] Thanks very much!
Victor : You want to be an actress, don't you? You want a chance to show what you can do...
[her eyes begin to shine as she finally understands]
Victor : ...you've got it. You're going to take my place at Cruft's Music Hall tonight!
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Elizabeth : I'm not going. I can't do it.
Victor : Do what?
Elizabeth : I can't be a man all my life!
Victor : But you'll have time off. And you can knit and knit to your heart's content...
Elizabeth : But think what you're asking me!
Victor : [gazes upward as he quotes] "There's a tide in the affairs of men" -
[descending temporarily to earth]
Victor : - and women - "if taken at the flood, leads on to fortune..."
Elizabeth : Tides go out - don't they?
Victor : This'll be a spring one!
[Takes her by the shoulders]
Victor : We'll carry everything before us. I'll never leave you - and I'll never let you down.
[They shake hands on it as a smile spreads from her face to his]
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Elizabeth : [Of Victor, who is busy dancing with Robert's fiancée] He's quite harmless - he's Shakespearing her to death.