Merrily We Live (1938)

Phillip Reed: Herbert Wheeler

Quotes 

• Herbert Wheeler : You mean to say I'm to blame?

  Wade Rawlins : Yes. I think so.

  Herbert Wheeler : [Gives Rawlins a push]  You can' talk like that to me. I'll knock your ears off.

  Wade Rawlins : Oh, don't frighten me, mister. Look, you got me all nervous.

  [He shakes his hands, flips his notebook in Wheeler's face, and gets back in his car] 

• Grosvenor - Butler : [Answers the telephone]  Mr. Wheeler, miss.

  Jerry Kilbourne : Oh, is it? Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor and listens] 

  Herbert Wheeler : [Talking from a lobby phone booth]  Listen you stupid old fraud, who do you think you're kidding?

  Jerry Kilbourne : What did you call me, Herbert?

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Oh, I'm sorry, sweetheart. Listen baby...

  Grosvenor - Butler : I beg your pardon, sir. But I'm neither your sweetheart nor your baby.

  [Jerry takes the phone from Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Baby! You baby elephant. Will you get off the phone ya big lug?

  Jerry Kilbourne : Why, Herbert, I thought you wanted to talk to me. But if that's the way you feel about it.

  [She hands the phone back to Grosvenor] 

  Herbert Wheeler : Uh, wait a minute, Jerry.

  Jerry Kilbourne : [Speaking loudly toward the phone that Grosvenor is holding]  Tell Mr. Wheeler I'm not at home.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Hello, this is the Kilbourne estate.

  Herbert Wheeler : Will you please stop monkeying around and let me talk to Miss Kilbourne?

  Grosvenor - Butler : Miss Kilbourne is not at home, sir.

  Herbert Wheeler : Listen, you fathead. I know she's at home. I just talked to her.

  Grosvenor - Butler : Are you going to believe who you talked to or what I tell you? Miss Kilbourne is not at home.