Dinner at Eight (1933) Poster

(1933)

Billie Burke: Millicent Jordan

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Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Jean Harlow, George Cukor, Marie Dressler, Madge Evans, Phillips Holmes, Edmund Lowe, Elizabeth Patterson, and May Robson in Dinner at Eight (1933) Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, and Edmund Lowe in Dinner at Eight (1933) Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Billie Burke, Jean Harlow, Harry Beresford, Madge Evans, and Grant Mitchell in Dinner at Eight (1933) Billie Burke and Louise Closser Hale in Dinner at Eight (1933) Billie Burke, Louise Closser Hale, and May Robson in Dinner at Eight (1933) Billie Burke and May Robson in Dinner at Eight (1933) Wallace Beery, Billie Burke, Jean Harlow, Louise Closser Hale, and Grant Mitchell in Dinner at Eight (1933) Billie Burke, Louise Closser Hale, and Anna Duncan in Dinner at Eight (1933) Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, and Edmund Lowe in Dinner at Eight (1933) Wallace Beery, Billie Burke, and Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight (1933) Billie Burke and Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight (1933)

Quotes 

  • Carlotta Vance : And then I had a restful, nice luncheon... with four lawyers. On the 88th floor of the What's-its building. You know, the Sky Club. A cloud floated right into my soup plate.

    Millicent Jordan : Yes, it's terrible. But, we get used to it.

  • Millicent Jordan : You're joking! Ask that common little woman to my house and that noisy, vulgar man? He smells Oklahoma!

  • Millicent Jordan : I don't know where I'm going to find someone to fit in with the Ferncliffes.

    Hattie Loomis : Only a rubber plant would fit in with the Ferncliffes.

  • Millicent Jordan : [Talking on the phone]  Don't you want to know the date?

    Kitty : Oh, sure, honey. Friday. A week from tonight. Dinner at Eight.

  • Millicent Jordan : [First lines]  Darling, I've got Lord and Lady Ferncliffe! They'll come to dinner next Friday. I just had a radio from them on the boat! Wasn't that brilliant of me, getting the Ferncliffes?

    Oliver Jordan : [underwhelmed]  Yes, that was very brilliant of you - if you want the Ferncliffes.

    Millicent Jordan : But I *do*! You remember them darling, they entertained us in London.

    Oliver Jordan : [sarcastically]  I remember them well, and very dull it was too - Australian mutton; and a lot of people who had been buried for years, and got up just to eat that mutton.

    Millicent Jordan : You don't realize how important this is Oliver. *Everybody* will be after them. I thought you and Ferncliffe had lots in common. Isn't he interested in shipping too?

    Oliver Jordan : [reluctantly willing]  Uh-huh, Mr. Oliver Jordan accepts.

    Millicent Jordan : Of course it's terribly short notice.

  • Millicent Jordan : He knows Carlotta. We met him at her place in Antibes three years ago. He was simply a sensation! The girls fighting to get into his car. And on the beach, well, my dear, he wore even less than the girls.

  • Millicent Jordan : [On the phone]  Lucy? How are you my dear? Listen, Lucy, Lord and Lady Ferncliffe arrive from London tomorrow. And I want you and Wayne, a week from tonight. Yes. Dinner at Eight.

  • Millicent Jordan : Let's see. I'll put him between Carlotta and that Packard woman.

    Hattie Loomis : See if you can get him first and let nature take its course.

    Millicent Jordan : I do hope he's free for tonight.

    Hattie Loomis : Free, white and forty-five.

  • Oliver Jordan : The thing that's troubling me the most, Millie, is that - well, I'm afraid the Jordan line is gone.

    Millicent Jordan : Gone?

    Oliver Jordan : We're broke.

    Millicent Jordan : Oh. Well, everybodies broke, darling! Don't let that worry you.

  • Oliver Jordan : [Millicent is reaching her boiling point with stress]  Millicent, darling, would you mind awfully if I didn't go to the theatre tonight? I'm feeling pretty rotten. If I could just go to bed...

    Millicent Jordan : [voice shaking in disbelief]  What's that you're saying?

    Oliver Jordan : I said I'm feeling pretty rotten. I'm up against a business thing...

    Paula Jordan : Oh, daddy...

    Millicent Jordan : [explodes]  Oh, a business thing! At a time like this, you talk to me about a business thing, and feeling rotten! This is a NICE TIME to say you're feeling rotten! You come to me with your--

    [to Paula] 

    Millicent Jordan : And YOU, whimpering about Ernest; some little lovers' quarrel! I'm expected to listen to Ernest, and business and headaches, when I'm half out of my mind! Do you know what's happened to me? I've had the most ghastly day anybody ever had. No aspic for dinner, and Ricky in jail, and Gustave dying, for all I know! And a new butler tonight, and that Vance woman coming in, and having to send for crabmeat. Crabmeat! And now, on top of everything else... the Ferncliffes aren't coming for dinner! They call up at this hour, the miserable cockneys. They call up to say they've gone to Florida. FLORIDA! And who can I get at this hour? Nobody! I've got eight people for dinner; eight people isn't a dinner! Who can I get?

    [to Oliver] 

    Millicent Jordan : And you come to me with your idiotic little-- *I'M* the one who ought to be in bed, *I'M* the one who's in trouble! You don't know what trouble is, either of you!

    [Millicent storms off] 

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