Caged (1950)

Betty Garde: Kitty Stark

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• Kitty Stark : Don't let it throw you, honey. You're still a kid. If you get paroled soon enough, there'll be a lotta guys that'll tumble for ya. You can even get hitched and have another kid if you're dope enough to want to. The trick's to flop out as soon as you can. Like I said, the boys can get your parole movin' fast. How 'bout it? Don't it make sense, honey? Think it over, sweetioe, but get this through your head: if you stay in here too long, you don't think of guys at all - you just get out of the habit.

• Kitty Stark : You see kid, in this cage, you get tough or you get killed. Better wise up before it's too late.

• Claire Devlin - Inmate : How much time you pullin'?

  Marie Allen : One to fifteen years. But I come up for parole in ten months.

  Smoochie : Just a hot minute. What's your rap?

  Marie Allen : Robbery.

  Smoochie : Hmph. Society. Larcenists don't talk to CPs.

  Marie Allen : [not familiar with the term, looks perplexed]  "CPs"?

  Smoochie : Are you kiddin'?

  Kitty Stark : "CP" - common prostitute.

  Smoochie : Where you been livin', the moon?

  Kitty Stark : Her name's Smoochie.

  Marie Allen : Glad to meet you.

  [politely holds out her hand to shake] 

  Smoochie : [somewhat reluctantly shakes hands, then turns to Kitty Stark]  Got news for ya': she's all right.

• Kitty Stark : [Evelyn Harper casually saunters in to the lock-up area; she walks up behind Kitty Stark, giving an evil chuckle]  What's so funny?

  Evelyn Harper : We've got a new fish coming in. Maybe if you're real nice you might get her for a roommate. An old friend of yours: Elvira Powell.

  Evelyn Harper : [Kitty Stark looks shocked, and slowly sits down]  It's going to be a rich haul - none of your penny-ante stuff.

  Kitty Stark : You'll still do what I pay you to do.

  Evelyn Harper : Them days are over!

  Evelyn Harper : [calls out to the other inmates nearby]  Hey, girls, take a look at your "queen bee." She's buzzin' off the throne. She never was nothin' but a dime-a-dozen booster with so little influence she couldn't even get off on self-defense for a murder rap!

  Evelyn Harper : [continues]  I got nothin' against you, it's just a matter of dollars and cents. Elvira Powell's an institution with a big bank roll stashed away, and I always wanted to meet an institution.

  [Harper lets out a devilish laugh and walks away] 

  Kitty Stark : Someday I'm gonna' get my hands in her hair... and I'm gonna' pull it out by the roots.

• Kitty Stark : [to Elvira]  Quit shaking the tambourine.

• Inmate : I'll tell Evelyn.

  Kitty Stark : Don't kid me, Harper's first name is filth.

• Smoochie : She's a real lady, Georgia, only she married some guy who likes spendin' other people's dough, so he got her to write a bunch of bouncers. I got news for ya. Georgia gives this place class.

  Kitty Stark : She ain't the only one. I had two real mink coats and a closetful of black lace nighties and a shelf full of real French perfumes that my girls lifted right out of one of the swankiest stores in town.

  Smoochie : Don't rub it in. All I had was a different pair of shoes for every night.