His Girl Friday Page #38
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- 1940
- 92 min
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At the door, Louie gets Mrs. Baldwin out and disappears with
her. Hildy starts after them, when Burns' arm comes into
scene, catching her.
BURNS:
Where do you think you're going?
HILDY:
Let go o' me! I've got to get Bruce
out of jail! Oh, Walter, why did you
have to do this to me?
BURNS:
(scornfully)
Get Bruce out of jail! How can you
worry about a man who's resting
comfortably in a quiet police station
while this is going on? Hildy, this
is war! You can't desert now!
HILDY:
Oh, get off that trapeze!
(indicating desk, off)
There's your story! Smear it all
over the front page -- Earl Williams
caught by the Morning Post! And take
all the credit -- I covered your
story for you and I got myself in a
fine mess doing it -- and now I'm
getting out! I know I told you that
twice before today -- but this time
I mean it!
BURNS:
You drooling idiot! What do you mean,
you're getting out! There are three
hundred and sixty-five days in the
year one can get married -- but how
many times have you got a murderer
locked up in a desk? -- Once in a
lifetime! Hildy, you've got the whole
city by the seat of the pants!
HILDY:
I know, but --
BURNS:
(interrupting)
You know! You've got the brain of a
pancake! That wasn't just a story
you covered -- it was a revolution!
Hildy! This is the greatest yarn in
journalism since Livingstone
discovered Stanley for the New York
Herald!
(quickly closes the
door)
HILDY:
(slightly bewildered)
Wait a minute -- wasn't it Stanley
who discovered Livingstone?
BURNS:
Don't get technical at a time like
this! Do you realize what you've
done? You've taken a city that's
been graft-ridden for forty years
under the same old gang and with
this yarn you're kicking 'em out and
giving us a chance to have the same
kind of government that New York's
having under La Guardia! We'll make
such monkeys out of these ward-heelers
next Tuesday that nobody'll vote for
them -- not even their wives!
HILDY:
(the fire upon her)
I'd like to think.
BURNS:
Well, think it then, because it's
true! We'll crucify that mob. We're
going to keep Williams under cover
till morning so the Post can break
the story exclusive. Then we'll let
the Governor in on the capture --
share the glory with him.
HILDY:
(excited)
I get it!
BURNS:
You've kicked over the whole City
Hall like an apple-cart. You've got
the Mayor and Hartman backed against
a wall. You've put one administration
out and another in. This isn't a
newspaper story -- it's a career!
And you stand there belly-aching
about whether you catch an eight
o'clock train or a nine o'clock train!
Still a doll-faced mugg! That's all
you are.
HILDY:
Let me get at that typewriter and
I'll show you how a doll-faced mugg
can write!
BURNS:
Attagirl! Why, they'll be naming
streets after you -- Hildy Johnson
Street! There'll be statues of you
in the parks, Hildy. The radio'll be
after you -- the movies!
(slapping his fist
against his open
palm)
By tomorrow morning I'll betcha
there's a Hildy Johnson cigar! I can
see the billboards now. Light up
with Hildy Johnson!
HILDY:
Whoa -- wait a minute. We can't leave
Williams here. One of the other
fellows'll --
BURNS:
We're going to take him over to my
private office.
(turning)
Where's our phone?
HILDY:
That one -- how you gonna take him?
They'll see him.
SHOT AT TABLE:
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