Shirley Temple credited as playing...
Corliss Archer
- Corliss Archer: Dexter, you weren't with me tonight.
- Dexter Franklin: Huh?
- Corliss Archer: Well, there's no point in having Daddy tear you into little pieces. You know his temper.
- Dexter Franklin: What are you going to tell him?
- Corliss Archer: Oh, I'll think of something. Just remember, no matter what, you weren't with me tonight.
- Dexter Franklin: I can't do it. I can't let you take the rap.
- Corliss Archer: Oh, I'll figure out a story.
- Dexter Franklin: When?
- Corliss Archer: Oh, I don't know. Give me a minute to think! Oh, my mind's an absolute blank.
- Dexter Franklin: If it isn't a blank now, it will be when your old man gets through with you.
- Corliss Archer: Dexter! Not when he gets through, before he starts.
- Dexter Franklin: Huh?
- Corliss Archer: My mind's a blank. I can't remember anything. I've got amnesia, like in the movie.
- Dexter Franklin: It might work.
- Corliss Archer: Oh, it's gotta work. But Dexter, you must remember, no matter what happens, no matter what I say or do, you weren't with me tonight!
- Dexter Franklin: I weren't with you tonight.
- Corliss Archer: Wish me luck.
- Corliss Archer: Daddy, I've just got to have a dollar and a half.
- Harry P. Archer: I told you to wait outside.
- Kenneth Marquis: Rather than witness your churlish behavior, I should be most happy to advance or let's say donate the money myself.
- Corliss Archer: That's very sweet of you.
- Harry P. Archer: Don't take that money!
- Kenneth Marquis: Your poor father's ungraciousness stems partly from a natural tendency to be stuffy, and an unnatural reluctance to part with his holding money.
- Taylor: Kenneth, take it easy.
- Corliss Archer: Oh, you don't know my daddy at all. He's really very -
- Harry P. Archer: Don't speak to that man!
- Corliss Archer: Daddy, about my dollar and a half -
- Taylor: Archer, if we could get back to the business at hand -
- Harry P. Archer: [to Corliss] I'll talk to you outside. Now. Alone.
- Kenneth Marquis: If I were in your position, I should be completely underwhelmed.
- Corliss Archer: It's been awfully nice meeting you, Mr. Marquis.
- Kenneth Marquis: Oh, and if the indignity of taking money from Daddy Dear ever becomes too great to bear, don't hesitate to call on me.
- Taylor: Stop needling Archer, or we'll never get a settlement.
- Kenneth Marquis: You know, I'm seriously considering dedicating my entire life to the needling of Harry P. Archer. Nothing gives me greater pleasure.
- Harry P. Archer: I wondered who rang. Oh, that's nice. Who sent it? Uncle George? Mmm. Good.
- Mildred: Kenneth Marquis!
- Harry P. Archer: Kenneth - Let me see that!
- [Reading tag]
- Harry P. Archer: "May this brighten a youth blighted by parental stupidity and miserlyness. Kenneth Marquis." He did that to annoy me. I'll - I'll throw it out!
- Corliss Archer: Oh, Daddy, you can't!
- Mrs. Janet Archer: What's wrong?
- Harry P. Archer: That - that pinhead, that lowdown, shockworn Casanova Marquis sent Corliss this box of candy!
- Corliss Archer: Daddy says I can't keep it!
- Mrs. Janet Archer: Why Harry, why on earth - Kenneth Marquis? Sending candy to Corliss?
- Corliss Archer: Well, you see Mom -
- Harry P. Archer: Corliss had nothing to do with it. He's trying to irritate me by showing me up as a cheapskate.
- Mrs. Janet Archer: Well, if Miss Corliss had nothing to do with Mr. Marquis, I don't think it would hurt if she ate the candy.
- Corliss Archer: Look, Mom.
- Mrs. Janet Archer: Well, anyway, you can't return it with a piece missing.
- Corliss Archer: Oh, Daddy ate that piece.