Bedtime Story (1941)

Loretta Young: Jane Drake

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Quotes 

• [last lines, at the end of the play's premiere] 

  Luke Drake : It's a smash hit, Eddie -- it'll run five years!

  Jane Drake : Ladies and gentlemen! This will have the shortest run of any of Mr. Drake's plays...

  [gasps from audience] 

  Luke Drake : No, no, no. Five years!

  Jane Drake : It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God. And I'm sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be... a boy.

  [Luke faints] 

• Jane Dudley : I don't know a word of law, but I can smell something fishy about this a mile off.

  Pierce : Madam, there is no place in law for a woman's nostrils.

• Jane Drake : And you're so talented.

  Virginia Cole : Thank you. So are you. Many is the time I cried at your performance.

  Jane Drake : Ah, ha, I've laughed a lot at you, so that makes us even.

• Jane Drake : Sold! Sold! Sold!. Everything is sold to Dinglehoff. I wouldn't have minded so much if it hadn't been a man named Dinglehoff.

• Jane Drake : But we're giving a farewell party at our apartment. Why don't you join us?

  William Dudley : But that's for your theater friends.

  Eddie Turner : Oh, they're broadminded. They don't mind bankers.

  William Dudley : Thanks, but I can't risk it.

• Luke Drake : Isn't there anything you can suggest about my helplessness?

  Jane Drake : I'm sorry, Luke - it's too ingrown.

• Jane Dudley : [about her marrying William Dudley]  Oh, Betsy, please stop sniveling. Can't you see I'm happy?

• Luke Drake : [on the phone with Jane]  You mean about the play being off? I guess it is. But don't you worry about me, princess.

  Jane Drake : [on the other end of the phone line]  Did you say "princess?"

• Emma Harper : The idea that you have to leave the theater to have children. Why, I raised four children and never missed a cue.

  Jane Drake : My dear Emma, you were not married to Luke Drake. You wouldn't have had time to raise a canary.

• Luke Drake : Tonight it's sirloin steak for two.

  Jane Drake : Luke, have you been working on that play?

• Jane Dudley : William, I want you to take me to the hotel right now. You're acting like a frightened old maid.

  William Dudley : [about the legality of their marriage being questioned]  I won't leave here with our status up in the air.

  Luke Drake : [after William has left the room]  Bravo! Uh, uh, Jane. William knows best. He's got to sort of iron out your status.

• William Dudley : Oh, wait Jane. This needs a little thought...

  Jane Dudley : Why? Aren't you sure you're my husband?

  William Dudley : Oh, yes, but where there's the risk of bigamy.

  Jane Dudley : William! You too?

• Jane Drake : He hasn't got a drop of feeling left in him. Why, for that precious play of his, he'd steal the blankets off a shivering orphan.

• Jane Drake : Mr. Drake seems to have misplaced himself.

• Jane Drake : It's obvious Mr. Drake hasn't been living here. Everything's so neat and clean.

  Betsy : Oh, I never minded picking up after him.

• Jane Drake : Oh, hello William. See me make a darn fool of myself out there?

  William Dudley : The first darn fool thing you did was to marry him instead of me.

• Jane Drake : Mr. Drake, I have had seven years of your brand of comedy.

• Jane Drake : I thought you'd like to know, I'm selling the furniture.

  Luke Drake : You mean our things?

  Jane Drake : Yes.

  Luke Drake : Oh, listen, you can't do that. Just think of all the hamburgers I ate to buy some of those things. If you lay them all end to end...

  Jane Drake : I'm not interested in laying hamburgers end to end.

• Jane Dudley : These two gentlemen like to play Halloween all year round.

  William Dudley : Now, Jane, you've got no right to criticize them even though it is just a technicality.

  Luke Drake : I'm surprised at you, William - letting a technicality stop you. I'd of thought a gay Lothario like you would pick the bride up in... in his arms and just carry her away no matter what.

• Jane Drake : You irresponsible idiot.

  Luke Drake : [puts his arms around Jane]  Oh, my sweet.