The Lady Refuses

The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton. It stars Betty Compson as a destitute young woman on the verge of becoming a prostitute, who is hired by the wealthy Gilbert Emery to woo his never-do-well son, John Darrow, away from the clutches of the gold-digging Margaret Livingston.

Dialogue

 * Sir Gerald: Dobbs, you're... you're downright Victorian. We must have cocktails, Dobbs, cocktails!
 * Dobbs: N-not cocktails, sir!
 * Sir Gerald: Yes. Now don't tell me that it isn't British. You're deplorably behind the times. I drink 'em myself. What's more, I can mix 'em. Mix is the word.
 * Dobbs: They tell me they even put ice in them in America.
 * Sir Gerald: Yes, well, I don't think we'll go quite that far.

Cast

 * Betty Compson as June
 * John Darrow as Russell Courtney
 * Gilbert Emery as Sir Gerald Courtney
 * Margaret Livingston as Berthine Waller
 * Ivan Lebedeff as Nikolai Rabinoff
 * Edgar Norton as Sir Gerald's Butler
 * Daphne Pollard as Apartment House Maid