2 Best Jean Arthur Monologues

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Louise "Babe" Bennett)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Louise “Babe” Bennett)

Category: Movie Role: Louise "Babe" Bennett From: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

I know why he won’t defend himself! That has a bearing on the case, hasn’t it? He’s been hurt, he’s been hurt by everybody he met since he came here, principally by me. He’s been the victim of every conniving crook in town. The newspapers pounced on him, made him a target for their feeble humor. I was smarter than the rest of them: I got closer to him, so I could laugh louder. Why shouldn’t he keep quiet, every time he said anything it was twisted around to sound imbecilic! He can thank me for it. I handed the gang a grand laugh. It’s a fitting climax to my sense of humor. Certainly I wrote those articles. I was going to get a raise, a month’s vacation. But I stopped writing them when I found out what he was all about, when I realized how real he was. He could never fit in with our distorted viewpoint, because he’s honest, and sincere, and good. If that man’s crazy, Your Honor, the rest of us belong in straitjackets!

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Clarissa Saunders)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Clarissa Saunders)

Category: Movie Role: Clarissa Saunders From: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Your friend Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. So did every other man whoever tried to lift his thought up off the ground. Odds against them didn’t stop those men. They were fools that way. All the good that ever came into this world came from fools with faith like that. You know that Jeff. You can’t quit now. Not you. They aren’t all Taylors and Paines in Washington. Their kind just throw big shadows, that’s all. You didn’t just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, every day, common rightness. And this country could use some of that. Yeah , so could the whole cock-eyed world. Alot of it. Remember the first day you got here? Remember what you said about Mr. Lincoln? You said he was sitting up there waiting for someone to come along. You were right. He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it. That’s what he was waiting for. A man who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open. I think he was waiting for you Jeff. He knows you can do it. So do I.