The Bachelor Father (1931)

Ralph Forbes: John Ashley

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Quotes 

• John Ashley : Sir Basil is a very charming, as well as, a very distinguished person.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, yeah? Well, my mother was distinguished too. *She* was a headliner.

  Mrs. 'Aunt Molly' Berney : She was that. And sure it was me that should know. Didn't I dress her and strip her from one end of the country to the other, huh?

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Is this a gag or are you on the level? You mean to say that my father is a - a Duke or something?

  John Ashley : Your father is Sir Basil Winterton, VC, KCB, KCMG - Baron.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Can you tie that?

  John Ashley : Of course, you knew you had a father.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Well, I kinda suspected it.

• Geoffrey Trent : How are we to address you?

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yeah, what are we going to call ya?

  Geoffrey Trent : We feel that Sir Basil is a little too distant.

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Quite so. Of course, at the moment "father" is out of the question.

  John Ashley : I have it! Why not: Chief.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : That's it! Chief! We're all out of the same firehouse.

• John Ashley : That dame's a man eater!

• Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Don't call it England!

  John Ashley : All right, England.

  [Tony giggles, Sir Basil spanks her behind] 

  John Ashley : Whoop!

• John Ashley : I've been in England only three weeks and already I've learned to talk the English language.

  Geoffrey Trent : Oh, yeah? Let me hear you do it sometime.

• John Ashley : Why? Why, Dick!

  Geoffrey Trent : Tony!

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : John, you know the first time I saw you in New York, I knew you were a square-shooter.

  John Ashley : Thanks very much.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : And if the Chief had sent anybody but you to New York, I never would have come here.

  John Ashley : Oh, Tony. Its nice of you to say it, just the same.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I guess I'll have to go a step further.

  [moves closer] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : John, as far as I'm concerned, you could write your own ticket.

  John Ashley : Tony!

  [kiss] 

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, gosh. John, I have to go. I'll be right back.

  [kiss] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, I'll get my coat and I'll meet you in the garden.

  John Ashley : By the sundial.

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yes.

  [kiss] 

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : And we'll pick up where we left off.

• Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Gee, I'm nuts about him.

  John Ashley : Is that the same as being: goofy?

  Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Well, the same. Only to be goofy is a little bit more, eh, passionate. If you know what I mean.

• John Ashley : Sir Basil, I've been thinking this whole thing over. I'm a fool!

  Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : You consider that in the nature of - news?