- I hadn't any connections except for an uncle who's in the roofing business in Wilmington. He wasn't much good though. He was inclined to get drunk. Still is.
- We had an uncle like that, but he keeps off roofs.

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

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

You can hear this line at 00:34:04.292 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Let me see, Colonel Evans, old Philip Evans.

- No.

- No, I haven't been there in some years, and, well, I wouldn't know them anyway.

- You see, my father had a small grocery store in Baltimore.

- Oh, indeed.

- Yes. He was never able to make a go of it though, and when he died, he left a number of debts, which Mother worked very hard to clear up.

- I was only a child at the time and naturally I couldn't help her very much.

- Mother died the May before my 16th birthday.

- Oh, yeah? How sad.

- Yes, it was pretty sad.

- I hadn't any connections except for an uncle who's in the roofing business in Wilmington. He wasn't much good though. He was inclined to get drunk. Still is.

- We had an uncle like that, but he keeps off roofs.

- Mother had always wanted me to go to a big Eastern college, so I worked my way through Harvard. I ran an eating joint and a laundry. In vacations I worked in a steel mill and an automobile factory. One summer I drove a garbage truck.

- Admirable.

- No, no, they simply happened to be the only jobs I could get, but you can learn a lot in a steel mill. A lot you don't get at Harvard.

- Anything else, sir?

- I beg your pardon?

- I should think you would.

[...]

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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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