“I’ll beg, I’ll borrow, I’ll — please, Judge, I’ll sell anything I’v…” — Cary Grant as Roger Adams in Penny Serenade (1941)

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“I’ll beg, I’ll borrow, 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!”

Cary Grant as Roger Adams · 1941 · film · Penny Serenade (1941)

Roger Adams pleads with a judge not to take his adopted daughter. The scene brought Grant his first Academy Award nomination.

Spoken as Roger Adams in Penny Serenade (1941).

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