- What do you mean, could have been?
- If Father hadn't interfered.
3 seconds sound clip from the Holiday (1938) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:00.290 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Now, don't you say a word about Leopold. He's very sensitive.
- Yours?
- Who's the musician in the family?
- I think I saw him this morning when I first arrived. At least I saw somebody with a hangover.
- That was Ned. He could have been a fine musician.
- What do you mean, could have been?
- If Father hadn't interfered.
- Who performed on the flying trapeze?
- Oh, all of us. And a terrible cousin of ours named Seton Cram.
- He and I used to swing by our knees and spit at each other.
- I'm happy to say now, I rarely missed.
- There's Julia and I as kids.
- Say, she was beautiful even then, wasn't she?
- Case?
[...]
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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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