The Devil and Miss Jones Page #7

Synopsis: Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Sam Wood
Production: RKO Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1941
92 min
337 Views


25 cent bonus for each pair you sell.

Fine. These are the ones I want.

Don't you think that you'd better start on these?

How many of those do you got in stock?

Five.

That's too bad. I could sell six.

I wish that you'd try to sell the ordinary shoes,

you're making trouble for yourself.

Now. Here we are.

Just slip your foot in.

I don't like that.

Come come now.

Put your foot in the shoe Sally.

I don't want to, I don't like it.

Put your foot in.

I don't like it!

Where'd you get this brat?

She belongs to the upstairs maid.

If she doesn't stop squirming there's

going to be another upstairs maid.

Stop squirming dear.

I don't like it! I don't like it!

No! No! No!

I knew he didn't have the

personality for shoes.

Stop squirming dear.

I don't like it! I don't like it!

No, no, no...

I don't like it!

Grab hold of her, grab hold of her.

Well, well, well.

How are we coming along?

Fine!

Mr. Higgins.

We're not shoeing a horse you know?

Look. Look what I've

got for the little lady.

You're quite sure that

you want this type of shoe?

Yes, sir. This is the type that I want.

Hmm. All five pairs.

I've been looking for this model.

They are very hard to find.

(Nudges Higgins) There's someone at your

slipper counter. I'll take care of this customer.

I've got these shoes sold.

There's someone at your slipper counter.

He's not a regular shoe salesman.

I'm the section manager but

I'm going to wait on you myself.

Thank you.

There's someone at your slipper counter.

Will you take them with you sir

or shall I send them?

Are you taking these shoes sir?

Yes, sir. Wrap them up please.

(Higgins waves)

(Higgins falls)

Now young lady, your own shoe.

Fire Section Manager!

Don't you feel badly

He'll get his just desserts

one of these days.

I'd like to be as certain

of the hereafter Miss Jones.

And don't lose confidence in yourself.

You could've sold them just as well.

He only brought it in cause

he wanted to get the bonus.

I don't remember when I've ever

disliked anyone as hardily as I do him.

And I've disliked quite a

few people in my time...

...to their misfortune.

You just forget all about it.

I'm an elephant, Miss Jones.

A veritable elephant.

I never forget a good deed

done to me or an ill one.

I consider myself sort of a divine justice.

Other people in this world

have to forget things.

I do not.

Now don't talk like you're out of your mind.

And don't be blasfemous about divine justice.

I don't like that.

I came over here to ask you

something very important.

What is it?

Well, Elizabeth asked me to ask you...

if you'd like to take her to Coney Island

tomorrow with Joe and me.

Oh, it's Dutch treat.

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Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, a film he also directed. more…

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