Boom Town (1940)

Hedy Lamarr: Karen Vanmeer

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Quotes 

• Karen Vanmeer : You're much younger than I thought you'd be.

  Big John McMasters : What'd you expect, stranger? A bald head and a breadbasket?

  Karen Vanmeer : Well, stranger, they told me you were an oil baron.

  Big John McMasters : Is that the way they grow them back East?

  Karen Vanmeer : In spite of all their steam baths.

• Karen Vanmeer : Am I interrupting? Or are ladies allowed?

• Karen Vanmeer : Looks as if I'm going to be a very lonely girl tonight.

  Big John McMasters : Sorry. But Shorty and I have got a lot of old times to talk over.

  Karen Vanmeer : But you mustn't forget there are new times too.

• Big John McMasters : You've got to learn to take no for an answer once in a while.

  Karen Vanmeer : I wouldn't let you give me that answer.

• Jonathan Sand : Karen, you're a pretty smart little gal. Yes, sir, you're a smart little gal. This income-tax thing is getting to be a heck of a note. Would you believe that I'll pay 220,000 this year?

  Karen Vanmeer : Well, I'd say you're very lucky.

• Jonathan Sand : You know, Karen, I may not look much like a lady's man, but many a gal has cried when I left.

  Karen Vanmeer : If I were a man, I'd consider that a great compliment. But why tell me?

  Jonathan Sand : Well, I'll get to the real point. I'll skip my better ones, like my not snoring and knowing when a dame needs a walloping to be sure that I'm in love with her. And that I've got all the money in the world, outside of some change. I got an idea. I'm asking you to marry me.

• Jonathan Sand : What do you say? Let's go to the Hall of Records and make it legal.

  Karen Vanmeer : You obviously dislike me.

  Jonathan Sand : Ain't it the truth. I don't like poachers, male or female.

• Karen Vanmeer : It must be awfully boring, listening to a woman who knows what she wants.

• Big John McMasters : Karen, look, there's something I want to tell you.

  Karen Vanmeer : You don't have to. I'm a high-class eavesdropper, partner. Don't you know that's my business?

• Big John McMasters : You never got very much out of this, did you?

  Karen Vanmeer : I got plenty. All I asked for, except the frosting. And I knew in my heart I'll never get that.

• Big John McMasters : You're high-class.

  Karen Vanmeer : This may not be, but I'm going to do it because I want to.

  [kiss] 

  Karen Vanmeer : High-class or not, I'm going out the back way. Just to begin to see how it feels.

• Karen Vanmeer : A man always worries about his tie when he's in love, doesn't he?

• Karen Vanmeer : Goodbye, stranger.

  Big John McMasters : Okay, stranger.