Manhattan Parade (1931)

Walter Miller: John Roberts

Quotes 

• Charlotte Evans : You want me, Mr. Roberts?

  John Roberts : Yes!

• John Roberts : Running a business is a man's job. Running a home and taking care of a baby is a woman's job.

  Doris Roberts : But, dear, I can't be in two places at once? I'm in this office 16 hours out of the 24 and...

  John Roberts : That's just it. You have no right to be in this office. You're place is at home with the baby.

• Doris Roberts : You want me to leave the firm?

  John Roberts : I insist on it, Doris. It's unfair. Absurd for you to get up early. Haggle all day. Go home. Night after night, exhausted. I've been thinking about it for months, Honey.

  Doris Roberts : But, I love the battle! We founded this firm together. Made a big business out of nothing, in our joint effort. Its been a real partnership. Just like our marriage.

  John Roberts : You're partner enough as my wife. And I want you to have the leisure. The fun that other women have. Stay in bed as long as you want. Go to teas. Play bridge. Entertain. Be a normal, happy woman. Not a machine!

• John Roberts : You can't carry a big business on your shoulders and give a child the attention he deserves.

• John Roberts : All right, Doris. If you insist on coming here tomorrow, I'll stay away.

  Doris Roberts : What do you mean?

  John Roberts : If you don't let me do my job alone, as a man should, we separate.

• Doris Roberts : If you want me to get out? Out, I go.

  John Roberts : That's a good girl!

• Doris Roberts : From now on, I can give all my time to Junior. It'll make the baby happy. And that's something.

  John Roberts : It'll make this baby happy, too. And that ought to be a lot!

• Doris Roberts : If it were all so innocent, why didn't you tell me about it?

  John Roberts : Men don't their wives things like that.

• Doris Roberts : In the meantime, I'm still the boss around here. And what I say - goes! And I say: Get Out!

  John Roberts : That's fine. That's just dandy.

• John Roberts : I never made promises to any woman!

  Charlotte Evans : What am I? A horse?

• Doris Roberts : You know that grizzly bear costume we had so much trouble making?

  John Roberts : Yes?

  Doris Roberts : Well, now the man doesn't want it: he's developed laryngitis and can't growl!