Old Acquaintance Quotes

Old Acquaintance is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Old Acquaintance ended its run in 1970.

It features Henry Blanke as producer, Franz Waxman in charge of musical score, and Sol Polito as head of cinematography.

Old Acquaintance is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Old Acquaintance is 110 min long. Old Acquaintance is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe, Dolores Moran as Deirdre Drake, Anne Revere as Belle Carter, Miriam Hopkins as Millie Drake, John Loder as Preston Drake, Roscoe Karns as Charlie Archer, Gig Young as Rudd Kendall, and Esther Dale as Harriet.

Old Acquaintance Quotes

Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe

• (Bette Davis) "I'm not so sure the play's any good."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, you make me furious. Now, supposing I started one of my books with the attitude I wasn't sure about it. Where would I be?"
• (Bette Davis) "Where I am, probably."

• (Bette Davis) "I'd better get out of here, Millie, before I do something I'll be very sorry for."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Yes, go. And if you think I want you to come back ever you're wrong. Well? why don't you go?"
• (Bette Davis) "In just a minute."
• (Bette Davis) "Sorry."

• (Bette Davis) "There are things you just don't do. There are things that a woman just can't do and this is one of them."

• (Bette Davis) "If you'd just look at Millie's activities as confession of weakness, an admission that there's something essentially lacking in her nature, you'd find it a little touching and love her."
• (John Loder) "You sound like one of Millie's books."

• (Bette Davis) "Deedy, you're looking very gay today."
• (Dolores Moran) "Thanks, darling, I feel gay. So do you."

• (Bette Davis) "This is my second blooming. Life has been very good to me."
• (Bette Davis) "Oh, I would look like a hag of 90 when I want to look like Shirley Temple."

• (Bette Davis) "Would you mind very much if I came in?"
• (Dolores Moran) "Not at all. Come in."
• (Bette Davis) "Charming. Typical bachelor's lair."
• (Dolores Moran) "So you're the Katherine Marlowe."
• (Bette Davis) "I've often been referred to as that."

• (Bette Davis) "What did she mean I; I looked as if I didn't shave?"
• (John Loder) "Oh, don't let that worry you. I like girls who don't shave."

• (Bette Davis) "Harriet, I did something today that I've wanted to do for years and I feel perfectly marvelous."

• (Bette Davis) "Deidre, come out from behind that screen."
• (Bette Davis) "Deidre, come out, or do you want me to come back there and drag you out."
• (Dolores Moran) "How did you know I was there?"
• (Bette Davis) "My dear, I was hiding behind screens before you were born."

• (Bette Davis) "Deirdre, I have never made a practice of slapping people, but I'm dangerously close to slapping you right now."

• (Bette Davis) "What could I do? I couldn't get away from those Amazons."

• (Bette Davis) "What you going to call it?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Well, I'm not sure. I've had several ideas. What do you think of Auld Lang Syne?"
• (Bette Davis) "Well, if it's about us, why not Old Acquaintance?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Old Acquaintance. Old Acquaintance. Of course, Kit."
• (Bette Davis) "Let's drink to that, Millie."

• (Bette Davis) "Well, Millie, you've always said you wanted to write what you call "an artistic flop." Maybe this will be it."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "No, Kit. The public doesn't expect a sad ending from me. Two women left all alone like this."

• (Bette Davis) "Millie remembers the same things I do, that's important. For instance, she's the only person I know, who still remembers when I used to be called Chunky."
• (John Loder) "I'd think you wouldn't want to remember that."
• (Bette Davis) "But one does. Funny, one does."

• (Bette Davis) "Cheer up, there's always what's left of the icing."

• (Bette Davis) "There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."

• (Bette Davis) "Millie, remember whenever we were in the dumps, your Mother used to say, "Don't worry, girls. There's always whats left of the icing.""
• (Miriam Hopkins) "I remember."

• (Bette Davis) "I know -- my fatal beauty drives men mad."

• (Bette Davis) "Well, she's really partly mine anyway. I was at the hospital when she was born. As a matter of fact, she gave me her first smile. Her mother said it was gas."

• (Bette Davis) "You must remember, Millie -- you've never not been sure about anything."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "You mean I'm too sure?"
• (Bette Davis) "I didn't say that. But you must admit, you're a very certain little woman."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Perhaps, I am. But I certainly couldn't see myself at our age waving in the breeze like a piece of limp rag."

• (Bette Davis) "It's late, and I'm very, very tired of youth and love and self-sacrifice."

• (Bette Davis) "Kit, you're just what I always thought you were, a pretty nice person."
• (John Loder) "Oh, pooh."

John Loder as Preston Drake

• (John Loder) "Charlie, you're drunk."
• (Roscoe Karns) "Confidentially, so am I."

• (John Loder) "Now, Millie, you're tired. Let me fix you a nice, big drink."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "How many have you had?"
• (John Loder) "Fourteen or fifteen."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, stop being funny."

• (John Loder) "They've been a dream come true for Millie. Cigarette?"
• (Anne Revere) "No thank you."
• (John Loder) "She has the house that she wanted. Servants. All the things that women like."
• (Anne Revere) "You must be very proud of her."
• (John Loder) "Yes, I suppose I am."

• (John Loder) "Oh, so you saw her?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Yes. I saw her. She looked like someone who was selling something. I'm sure if she'd have been a man she wouldn't have shaved."

• (John Loder) "Hey, what's going on with you two? What's the joke?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, our Kit's in a very rambunctious mood today. I think I must write a play sometime, and see if I can feel rambunctious."
• (Bette Davis) "I'm sure you will, Millie."

• (John Loder) "As a matter of fact, I knew nothing of my wife's first book until the day it was published. Our little girl was born in the middle of the night. The following morning, on my breakfast table, there was Millie's book in a very gay cover."

Miriam Hopkins as Millie Drake

• (Miriam Hopkins) "Preston, you know I don't like you to drink in the daytime."
• (Bette Davis) "Its as good a time as any."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "When your book came with your name on it and my name printed inside, something happened to me. Oh, it wasn't jealousy. I'm above jealousy. You know that."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "What do you think you're doing?"
• (John Loder) ""'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things: "'Of socks and shirts and dressing gowns, and whether pigs have wings."'"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "You're drunk."
• (John Loder) "Oh, no, Millie, I'm not, but I am very happy."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "Where are your pajama pants?"
• (Bette Davis) "Oh, I never use 'em."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "No?"
• (Bette Davis) "No."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, people are a nuisance. The only people I need are in my books. Outside of Preston and my baby, no one means anything."
• (Bette Davis) "Me, too?"

• (Miriam Hopkins) "You asked me a while ago -- how I happened to let anything like your father get away from me. Well, I'll tell you. He was taken away from me. Filched."
• (Dolores Moran) "Filched?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, well, stolen, then."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "You don't seem to know, or care, what's gonna happen to you from one minute to the next. Now, when I make up my mind I want something, I work until I get it. Then I hold onto it like a bulldog with his teeth."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "She was carrying on with him like some Jezebel. Well. Well, I can wish her no worse fate than that for which she is heading now."
• (Dolores Moran) "What do you mean by that?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, she's embarking on a little cradle-snatching. That silly young boy she's been carrying on with has been called into the Navy. And she must immediately become a young sailor's bride of 42."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "This changes everything."
• (Bette Davis) "Changes what?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "My new book, the one I told you I was writing. You see, it's about two women friends. They're practically brought up together. They have their ups and downs, and finally --"
• (Bette Davis) "You mean, like us?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, the characters are all imaginary but, In a way, yes."
• (Bette Davis) "Millie, you never cease to amaze me."

• (Miriam Hopkins) "Apparently Rudd is still infatuated and anxious for marriage; in spite of the closeness of their relationship."
• (Dolores Moran) "Just what do you mean by that?"
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Just what you think I mean."
• (Dolores Moran) "Well; this is quite a surprise."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "Oh, the longer you know Kit the more you'll find she's full of hidden surprises."

Esther Dale as Harriet

• (Esther Dale) "Your picture's in the paper."
• (Bette Davis) "Is it a good one?"
• (Esther Dale) "- I don't like it. You're much better looking than that."
• (Bette Davis) "Oh, thank you, Harriet."
• (Esther Dale) "I heard your speech last night, too. It was just fine. You're such a little thing, nobody'd think, to look at you -- you had that much brains."

Anne Revere as Belle Carter

• (Anne Revere) "Tell me, how is your new book coming along?"
• (Bette Davis) "Well, I write and I write, and I still don't like it."
• (Anne Revere) "But, at least when you do turn one out, it's a gem. None of this grinding them out like sausage --"
• (Anne Revere) "I suppose I could cut my throat."
• (Miriam Hopkins) "There's a knife on the table."

Gig Young as Rudd Kendall

• (Gig Young) "You're very charming, Deirdre."
• (Dolores Moran) "Are you contemplating making love to me?"
• (Gig Young) "Is there any reason why I shouldn't?"

Dolores Moran as Deirdre Drake

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