- Maybe he's got a judge somewhere in the family.
- Yes, that might help.

— Linda Seton (Katharine Hepburn), Ned (Lew Ayres)

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

You can hear this line at 00:25:54.756 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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?

- Nope.

- 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.

- Oh, Johnny, this is a lot of rot.

- Johnny, she says to me. She calls me Johnny.

[...]

Holiday (1938) Sound Clip

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Listen to famous short quotes from Holiday (1938) freely downloadable in MP3 / WAV format.

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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