- How are you socially?
- Nothing much there either.
- You mean to say that your mother wasn't even a whoosis?
- Nope.

— Johnny Case (Cary Grant), Linda Seton (Katharine Hepburn)

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5 seconds sound clip from the Holiday (1938) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:25:46.718 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Now, the first thing Father will want to know is how you're fixed.

- Money, money. How much dough you got?

- Oh, now, Linda, please.

- Well, I know you wouldn't expect it of a man in Father's position, but the fact is, money is our God here.

- Johnny, it isn't true at all.

- No? What is then?

- Well, young man?

- Well, sir, at the moment I have in my pocket exactly 34 dollars and... and a coupon for a bank night at a Lake Placid movie.

- No gilt-edged securities, no rolling woodlands?

- Well, I have a few shares of common stock tucked away...

- Common. Don't say the word. Oh!

- I'm afraid he won't do, Julia. He's a comely boy, but probably just another of the vast army of clock-watchers.

- How are you socially?

- Nothing much there either.

- You mean to say that your mother wasn't even a whoosis?

- Oh, Linda, I do wish you'd shut up.

- Maybe he's got a judge somewhere in the family.

- Yes, that might help.

- Old Judge Case's boy. White pillars. Guitars a-strumming. Evening, Massa.

- How you all, Miss Linda?

- Well, you must know some prominent people. Drop a few names.

- Oh, just casually.

- When I went to Mrs. Onderdonk's cockfight last Tuesday, whom should I see but Mrs. Marble. I thought I'd die laughing.

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Holiday (1938) Sound Clip

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Actors: Katharine Hepburn (Linda Seton), Cary Grant (Johnny Case), Doris Nolan (Julia Seton), Lew Ayres (Ned), Henry Kolker (Edward Seton), Edward Everett Horton (Professor Nick Potter), Jean Dixon (Susan Potter)

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