The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Myrna Loy: Judge Margaret Turner

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• Margaret Turner : Susan's growing pains are rapidly becoming a major disease.

• Judge Margaret Turner : Thank you. You said that graciously. Perhaps the result of practice?

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : You said that ungraciously. Perhaps the result of practice?

  Judge Margaret Turner : I had that coming.

• Joey : [Susan arrives at their table in a rage]  Is this your daughter, Judge?

  Richard Nugent : [shocked that he'd insinuate Margaret is old enough to have a teenage daughter]  It's her sister!

  Joey : Funny, you look enough alike to be mother and daughter!

  Margaret : [annoyed]  Sisters look alike too.

  Agnes Prescott : I hate my sister.

• Judge Margaret Turner : If you're interested in a more exact science, you might spend some time on geometry.

  Susan Turner : I don't consider geometry a part of life.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Mr. Roberts does. He says you're the first student to define a triangle as two women crazy about one man.

• Margaret : You know I'd die for you, only sometimes it's so hard living with you.

• Susan : Have you ever thought of me as a model?

  Margaret : I can't honestly say that I have. Why?

  Susan : Dickie wants me to pose for him.

  Margaret : Oh, isn't that nice... DICKIE?

• Susan : You're going to make me an old maid.

  Margaret : Only until you're 18.

• Judge Margaret Turner : You could talk the devil into going to church!

• Richard Nugent : Thank you, Your Honor, may I go?

  Judge Margaret Turner : You've just got here, don't you like our court?

• Matt Beemish : A girl her age is entitled to growing pains, isn't she?

  Judge Margaret Turner : Yes, but Susan's growing pains are rapidly becoming a major disease.

• Judge Margaret Turner : [on the bench]  It's important that I consider only the evidence presented in this matter.

  Prosecuting attorney : Very well, your honor.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Don't sulk about it.

• Richard (Dick) Nugent : You know, my father was a bachelor.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Really?

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : [chuckles]  Wait till I finish.

• Judge Margaret Turner : Please don't have any illusions about this matter. I'm doing this against my better judgment. I would just as soon my sister we're going out with an actor.

  Matt Beemish : Judge Turner doesn't exactly mean that.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Oh, I was just wondering.

  Matt Beemish : She means, as head of a psychiatric clinic, that I've recommended you as a vital therapy measure.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Hmmm. That's great. Recommended for children.

• Susan Turner : Why not send me to prison and get me out of the way?

  Judge Margaret Turner : Susan!

  Susan Turner : I'm old enough to fight for my own happiness. Anyway, I saw him first.

• Judge Margaret Turner : Mr. Nugent, I have good news.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : You're going to hang me.

  Judge Margaret Turner : I'm afraid I'm the one who ought to be hanged.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Won't I sit down?

  Judge Margaret Turner : Please do.

• Susan Turner : Do you know what you are? You're a regular Blackbeard.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Bluebeard, dear.

  Susan Turner : Well, a rose by any color.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Now, everybody's too excited.

  Tommy : Nobody's excited.

• Judge Margaret Turner : It's nothing. I'm sure you didn't know she'd be here.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Are you sure you're sure I didn't know she'd be here?

• Judge Margaret Turner : May I have your name, please?

  Anthony Herman : Uh,

  [clears his throat] 

  Anthony Herman : Anthony Herman. I work at the

  [clears his throat] 

  Anthony Herman : Vampire Club.

  Judge Margaret Turner : In what capacity?

  Anthony Herman : To maintain law and order. I throw people out that cause a disturbance in any shape or form.

• Richard (Dick) Nugent : I'm doing a series of paintings on Americana, and I'm including a nightclub scene.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Creating a nightclub scene would seem more appropriate.

• Judge Margaret Turner : I've had enough of this, and I've had enough of you. Everywhere you go, you attract trouble.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : There you go, jumping again.

  Judge Margaret Turner : Shut up. Thank you for a lovely evening.

  [she storms off] 

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Thank you! Thank you!

• Judge Margaret Turner : Susan!

  Susan Turner : I do not intend to create a scene.

  Judge Margaret Turner : What are you doing here?

  Susan Turner : You both oughtta be ashamed of yourselves.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Another chair, Alex.

  Susan Turner : I'm too young to be deceived by such treachery.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : What will you have to drink?

  Susan Turner : Lemonade.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Sit down.

  Susan Turner : I don't intend to stay. And some chocolate ice cream

  [to the waiter] 

• Judge Margaret Turner : It's getting to be quite a party.

  Richard (Dick) Nugent : Ah, ah, all is not gold that glitters

• Susan Turner : I suppose you wonder how I found out where you were.

  Judge Margaret Turner : What's going on in your mind?

  Susan Turner : You know perfectly well what's going on. You told me that Dickie was sick - exhausted from the picnic. So, after you left, I went to Dickie's apartment and they told me where he was. And her I am, and here you are. I demand an explanation from both of you.

• Margaret : Richard Nugent?

  Susan : Have you heard of him?

  Margaret : Heard of him? We have a permanent courtroom set aside for him.

• Margaret : I've never been subjected to so much charm before.

• Judge Margaret Turner : [on the bench]  Mr. Nugent, I've met your type before. In fact, I might say I sentence them every day of the week.