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Penny Serenade Quotes

Penny Serenade is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Penny Serenade stopped airing in 1970.

It features George Stevens as producer, W. Franke Harling in charge of musical score, and Joseph Walker (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Penny Serenade is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Penny Serenade is 119 minutes long. Penny Serenade is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Wallis Clark as Judge, Cary Grant as Roger Adams, Beulah Bondi as Miss Oliver, and Irene Dunne as Julie Gardiner Adams.

Penny Serenade Quotes

Wallis Clark as Judge

  • (Wallis Clark) "I'll give you an opportunity to better prepare your facts."
  • (Unnamed) "Adoption proceedings, the Adams case."
  • (Wallis Clark) "What?"
  • (Unnamed) "The Adams case."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Oh yes, yes. Uh --"
  • (Wallis Clark) "if either one or both of you gentlemen conduct yourselves like you've been doing today I'll hold you in contempt, the both of ya."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Uh, oh this is the child in question. Ahem, let me see. Yes, I recall looking over these adoption papers. I see you have no income at present."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Is that correct?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes your Honor."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Now what is this Miss Oliver? You know this case should never have come before me."
  • (Beulah Bondi) "Well your Honor I feel that this is a special case. I kept hoping until the last minute Mr. Adams might be able to resume the operation of his paper or get a job. But unfortunately he hasn't been able to do either, so i thought --"
  • (Wallis Clark) "Under these conditions I can't grant the adoption. This child will have to revert to the orphanage."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Will you draw up a chair please while I prepare these release papers for you to sign? Just a matter of routine."
  • (Cary Grant) "If you please your Honor, it can't just be a matter of routine for people to have their baby taken away from them. This child is ours Judge --"
  • (Wallis Clark) "Those are the requirements of the law."
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes but you see we've had her since she was six weeks old. It just doesn't seem reasonable to give her back to-to-to strangers."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Mr. Adams, you're not here to plead your case. You've had the regular opportunity to prove your fitness to provide."
  • (Cary Grant) "We are fit Judge if you just look at the record."
  • (Wallis Clark) "Without any income I have no alternative. Didn't you make that clear Miss Oliver?"
  • (Beulah Bondi) "Yes your Honor I did, but I thought --"
  • (Wallis Clark) "I'm sorry but that is the law."
  • (Cary Grant) "Look your Honor, she's not like an automobile or an icebox or a piece of furniture or something you buy on time and when you can't give up the payments they take it away from you."
  • (Cary Grant) "Now sit still and be a good girl. Anyone could give up those kinds of things, but I ask you Judge how can you give up your own child? And she is our child just as much as if she'd been born to us."
  • (Cary Grant) "Now, now, Daddy's not going to go away."
  • (Cary Grant) "Look Judge, we've had her over a year now. Why we-we walked the floor with her when she had the colic. We've lost nights of sleep worrying every time she cut a tooth. We've gone through everything, everything real parents have with one of their own. Ask Miss Oliver here about the inspections we've had to have. Her-her weight charts, her vaccination certificates, h-her toys, her toothbrush. How many parents could keep one of their own and"
  • (Cary Grant) "go through that? And you sit here and say it's a matter of routine for you to take her away from us."
  • (Beulah Bondi) "Please. Mr. Adams --"
  • (Cary Grant) "I'm sorry Judge, but we weren't as fortunate as most people. We would've had one of our own only-only -- well you don't know how badly my wife wanted a child. It wasn't so important to me. I-I don't know, I suppose most men are like this but children never meant a great deal to me. Oh I liked them alright I suppose, but well what I'm trying to say is your Honor the first time I saw her -- she looked so little and helpless. I didn't know babies were so-so little. And then she took a-hold of my finger and I held onto it. She-she just sort of walked into my heart Judge"
  • (Cary Grant) "and-and she was there to stay. I didn't know I could feel like that. I'd always been well, kind of careless and irresponsible. I wanted to be a big shot. And I couldn't work for anybody, I had to be my own boss, that sort of thing. Now here I am standing in front of a judge pleading for just a little longer so that I can prove to you I can support a little child that doesn't weigh quite twenty pounds. It's not only for my wife and me I'm asking you to let us keep her Judge, it's for her sake too. She doesn't know any parents but us."
  • (Cary Grant) "She wouldn't know what'd happened to her. You see there's so many little things about her that nobody would understand her the way Judy and I do. We love her Judge, please don't take her away from us. Look, I'm not a big shot now, I-I'll do anything, I'll work for anybody."
  • (Cary Grant) "I-I'll beg, I'll borrow, I-I'll -- please Judge I'll sell anything I've got until I get going again. And she'll never go hungry, she'll never be without clothes not so long as I've got two good hands so help me."

Irene Dunne as Julie Gardiner Adams

  • (Irene Dunne) "We don't need each other anymore. When that happens to two people, there's nothing left."

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