EXCERPT FROM
"THE BIG SHOW" 2/4/51
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I just want to say how great it is to have you on the program again...and all the other talented people who make this a devine hour and a half. I can hardly w-a-i-t until Sunday rolls around each week.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: You're so emotional about a radio program.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Well of course I'm emotional. I just adore doing this program. The excitement. The suspense. The wonderment of watching the show unfold from it's very inception, until it becomes a living, breathing thing.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: You'd be better off gettin' emotional about a livin', breathin' fella.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Darling, you don't seem to understand my point. I spend all of my time here at the studio...rehearsing, interviewing people, meeting the guests, checking the scripts. Why I practically live right here at the studio.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: You keep a neat studio. You should get married.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: MARRIED! I am married...to my art. To the theatre. To my career.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: You should get a divorce and marry a fella.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I haven't time to marry darling. I have my radio work to think of. Radio is my life.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: On a cold night, you can't warm your feet on the back of a microphone.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I'd like to show you how warm one of my feet is right now sister.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: What are you mad about? All I said is that you should get married. Maybe you're doin' somethin' wrong.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I am doing nothing wrong.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: Maybe you should. (pauses) Look, in the first place, when you talk your voice is too low.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I have always spoken this way.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: Sure, that's why you're not married. You should talk a little higher. When a fella calls you up and a man answers...it's you, so he hangs up.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: My voice is recognized all over the world.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: Sure, you talk so loud they can hear you all over the world. Hey, where do you buy your clothes? That's what I wanna ask ya.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I buy my clothes at Hattie Carnegie.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: I wouldn't mention it to a fella, you'll scare him off. (If) a fella knows you go to Hattie Carnegie , you pay as high as twenty-five bucks for a dress and...goodbye Charlie.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: My dear woman, this dress happens to cost SEVEN HUNDRED and twenty-five bucks!
JUDY HOLLIDAY: (excited) Now you're talkin' higher. (pauses) And you oughta use make-up.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: I am using make-up.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: Then don't. (pauses) And you should use perfume. A fella likes to sniff around.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Judy darling, I am not interested in these "bloodhounds" you seem to know so well.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: I know a dentist. Would ya like a dentist? Or maybe a druggist? How would ya like to be a pharmacist's mate?
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: This is proposterous! Judy, I have men throwing themselves at my feet all the time.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: I know a chiropodist.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: How corny can you get? (moans to herself) Judy, where do you meet this sordid assortment of men?
JUDY HOLLIDAY: It's easy. You go where men go...you shoot pool.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Like a bengal lancer. Darling, I appreciate you trying to find a man for me, and I know you have a lot of little tricks up your sleeve that work very well for you. But, as far as I am concerned, I believe that there is a man for every woman and a woman for every man...and nobody can improve on that.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: So don't improve on it...just get in on it.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Judy, with all the strength at my command and the sturdy nonchalance that I've acquired through years of training in the theatre, I say to you, calmly and dispassionately, that your brazen intrusion on my private life has brought me to the end of my teather.
JUDY HOLLIDAY: You have to go through all of that just to say "drop dead."
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