Too Many Husbands (1940)
Jean Arthur: Vicky Lowndes
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Quotes
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Vicky Lowndes : I like my husbands to love me, to fight for me.
George : Vicky!
Vicky Lowndes : Is that wrong?
George : I don't know. It sounds wrong when you use the plural.
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Gertrude Houlihan : Mrs. Lowndes, I'm getting married.
Vicky Lowndes : Well, congratulations.
Gertrude Houlihan : For what?
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Vicky Lowndes : You don't think I'm crazy do you, Dad?
George : No.
Vicky Lowndes : These things always happen when I eat veal.
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Vicky Lowndes : You can't tell a woman to meet her dead husband at eight o'clock! You just can't! You, you mean, he's a - live?
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Vicky Lowndes : I don't know whether I'm asleep or out of my mind or what?
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Vicky Lowndes : What am I going to do? I have two husbands!
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Vicky Lowndes : Oh! Oh! Get some brandy!
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Vicky Lowndes : Here I am, a helpless woman!
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Vicky Lowndes : What are you two worried about? I'm the one with the two husbands!
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Bill Cardew : I'm out of your life. Drowned. Forgotten. You found a new love. That makes me an unwanted corpse at a party. I'll go.
Vicky Lowndes : No, no dear. We don't feel that way at all. Do we, Henry?
Henry Lowndes : I think he described himself perfectly!
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Vicky Lowndes : Buck up, Bill! - I'll be waiting
[Playfully walks away and stretches herself out on the stairway banister]
Vicky Lowndes : In my room.
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Vicky Lowndes : Since you men haven't reached a decision, the only proper thing for me to do is to put both my husbands in the guest room!
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Vicky Lowndes : Where did you go?
Henry Lowndes : Oh, places
Bill Cardew : Dumps, joints.
Vicky Lowndes : I see. The condemned men had a hardy drunk!
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Gertrude Houlihan : Do you know what I did when you married Bill, I mean, Mr. Cardew? I kidded myself into thinking that I had married him. That I was you.
Vicky Lowndes : Well, there's no harm in that.
Gertrude Houlihan : Thank you.
[Dreamily stares off into space]
Vicky Lowndes : What are you thinking about?
Gertrude Houlihan : Our honeymoon.
[Smiles]
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Vicky Lowndes : If you loved me at all, you never would have left here, even if I did tell you to get out.
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Henry Lowndes : What are you whispering?
Vicky Lowndes : I wasn't whispering.
Bill Cardew : I was showing her where a barracuda bit me.
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Vicky Lowndes : [In the guest bedroom where both men are to sleep this night] I just thought I'd see if you were all right.
Bill Cardew : I don't feel very good.
Vicky Lowndes : No? What's the matter?
Bill Cardew : Fever, I guess. Deadly tropical fever.
Vicky Lowndes : Your forehead isn't hot.
Bill Cardew : Don't take your hand away.
Vicky Lowndes : Get some aspirin from the cabinet, will you, Henry?
Henry Lowndes : Let him get his own aspirin. I don't feel any too well myself.
Vicky Lowndes : Really, dear?
Henry Lowndes : No.
Vicky Lowndes : Stick out your tongue.
Henry Lowndes : What's my tongue got to do with it? You held his head.
Vicky Lowndes : Let me see your tongue. You know your stomach always goes bad first.
Bill Cardew : [Looks at Henry sticking out his tongue] I'd be sick if I had that in my mouth.
Vicky Lowndes : You're all right. Did you brush your teeth?
Henry Lowndes : Ask him if he brushed his.
Bill Cardew : Can I help it if somebody gave my toothbrush to a tramp?
Henry Lowndes : The tramp wouldn't take it.