How was I to know that Father was on the board of directors of the company?
3 seconds sound clip from the Holiday (1938) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:21:10.254 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Well, I tried to go on the stage.
- Oh.
- Would you care to see me do the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth?
- No.
- Well, the teachers at Miss Porter's school thought it was very promising.
- There were a lot of humorous little episodes.
- I tried to get Father to let me take a nursing course at a hospital.
- Oh, yes, and I almost got arrested trying to help some strikers over in Jersey.
- How was I to know that Father was on the board of directors of the company?
- What's the matter, you fed up?
- You mean with this million-dollar museum? All those marble pillars down there?
- Case, compared to the life I lead, the last man in a chain gang thoroughly enjoys himself.
- Well, maybe what you need is some time out from what you've been doing. You know, day in, day out.
- You mean from what I've not been doing days in, please, years out.
- How does your garden grow, Case? Is life wonderful where you are?
- I don't call what I've been doing living.
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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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