Well, if we have to submit to it to save Father's face... Which, incidentally, doesn't deserve it...
7 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:22:40 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- But why?
- Don't ask me. There's a good reason, and it's my wedding, so please.
- I'll bet it's on account of Father and that dancer in New York.
- Oh, dear, is there no such thing as privacy anymore?
- Only in bed, Mother, and not always there.
- And all in that horrible, snide, corkscrew English.
- Well, if we have to submit to it to save Father's face... Which, incidentally, doesn't deserve it...
- I'm for giving them a picture of home life that'll stand their hair on end.
- No! Tracy, we must just be ourselves. Very much ourselves.
- But you want us to create a good impression, don't you?
- They don't know that we know what they're really here for, I hope.
- Oh, no, dear, that was understood.
- The girl's quite nice. He writes short stories. Very down to earth.
[...]
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Actors: James Stewart (Macaulay Connor), Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie), Virginia Weidler (Dinah Lord), Roland Young (Uncle Willie)
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