The Footloose Heiress (1937)
Craig Reynolds: Bruce 'Butch' Baeder
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Quotes
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Kay Allyn : [to the Justice of the Peace] This man is an imposer!
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Imposter, darling. You always were a little weak on nouns.
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Charlie : I always say women are creatures of "repulse," Butch. So, what they do today...
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : They're sorry for yesterday.
Charlie : Yeah, ain't they? Of course, it's none of my business but I can see you're pretty chummy 'bout Miss Kay. Now I got a theory about your situation.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : I think you're right.
Charlie : About what?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : It being none of your business.
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Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : [after saving Mr. Allyn from the railroad tracks] You're a little old to be playing on freight cars, aren't ya?
John C. Allyn : Ah, listen, young fella, you don't have to be impudent simply because you saved my life.
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John C. Allyn : She's crying!
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : They all do.
John C. Allyn : Yeah, but you don't understand. She hasn't cried in her whole life. The doctor said she was the strangest baby.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : She is. How about a drink?
John C. Allyn : Drink? Let's finish the bottle.
[Toasts]
John C. Allyn : Here's to the only man who ever made my little girl cry.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Here's to the only father whose little girl I've ever made cry.
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Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : I'll bet she's had a bit in her teeth ever since she was born and riding you for a fare thee well.
John C. Allyn : Yeah, you're right. She's been thrown out of four seminaries, three finishing schools and a convent. She's been engaged three times, she's tried to elope four, no, tonight was the fifth. Why, she's... Let's have a drink. I need mine straight, how about you?
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Kay Allyn : Just why did you put that story in the paper?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : To keep you from throwing yourself away.
Kay Allyn : Well, can we call a truce?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Maybe. If you've decided to stop making a fool out of yourself.
Kay Allyn : What if I suppose I haven't?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Then I will keep on haunting you.
Kay Allyn : But why? What do you care what I do?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : I don't. Only, you see, I promised Pops I'd keep you away from Pierson.
[Smiles]
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : It's, uh, nice work. I like it.
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Kay Allyn : [Disdainfully after seeing Linda with Butch] What's the idea, Linda? Slumming?
Linda Pierson : [Smiling] No, just showing the knight of the road how we simple folk live.
Kay Allyn : You look lovely in that wrap.
Linda Pierson : Thank you. You don't look so dowdy yourself.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Well, um, how do I look?
Kay Allyn : Like, take me home for $18.50.
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John C. Allyn : Look here. I'm open to new ideas and I like your stuff. Why not stay here and work in my radio department?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : No, I'm afraid I couldn't use it right now. I haven't finished seeing America yet through the eyes of the forgotten man.
John C. Allyn : Forgotten man?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Yeah, the hobo. I like his... his independence. No clients to get in your hair.
John C. Allyn : Well, I'll have plenty of them in my hair if this isn't right. The directors have essentially said they're stopping here in the morning for a script. They've had no faith in our radio ideas up until now and if this isn't done right, well, I'm liable to lose one of my biggest accounts.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Oh. Well, is there anything I can do?
John C. Allyn : Stay here and write this for me tonight and you can name your own figure.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : I'll settle for a ham sandwich and a glass of milk.
John C. Allyn : Ham sand...? Sit down, boy, and I'll fry the egg to go with it!
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Kay Allyn : You're the most aggravating man I've ever met!
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : You haven't been around much.
Kay Allyn : Oh, yes, I have.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Not with the right people.
Kay Allyn : And... how would... the right people treat me?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Kiss you less and... slap you more.
Kay Allyn : Why don't you try it?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Because you couldn't take it.
Kay Allyn : Which? The kiss or the slap?
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : Neither.
Kay Allyn : Begin.
Bruce 'Butch' Baeder : No. No, no, I saw you cry once - you were most unattractive.
[Kay slaps him, then Butch grabs and kisses her]