Merrily We Live (1938)
Phillip Reed: Herbert Wheeler
Quotes
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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]
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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.