Lucky Partners (1940)
Ronald Colman: David Grant
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Quotes
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Jean Newton : Hello! I'd like to ask you a proposition
David Grant : Good!
Jean Newton : [Offended that he has misinterpreted] A BUSINESS proposition!
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Bride : [in elevator at Niagara Falls hotel] You just get here honey?
Jean Newton : Yes.
Bride : We've been here a week.
David Grant : How are the falls?
Bridegroom : Uh, we're seeing them tomorrow.
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Jean Newton : You don't believe in money. You don't believe in marriage.
David Grant : That institution, like the Colosseum in Rome, is still standing; but, it certainly shows the ravages of time. Doesn't it?
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[first lines]
David Grant : [to Jean, a stranger, as he passes her on the street] Good luck!
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David Grant : You want to win money in order to marry a man who after a brief ceremony will take you to Poughkeepsie and apparently keep her there. Can you give me any good reason for being a party to any scheme as discreditable as that? And what sort of a man these days would demand a dowry? Is he a Frenchman?
Jean Newton : Certainly not! And the money isn't his idea, it's mine. I want the money myself.
David Grant : And what for?
Jean Newton : Because I want to be independent! And because I always made my own living. And because if I should ever want to buy anything, I should hate to ask somebody else for the money.
David Grant : And because it would be a precaution in the event of things not going very well?
Jean Newton : Yes!
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David Grant : What about your honeymoon?
Jean Newton : Well, that will have to come later.
David Grant : Oh, don't you believe it.
Jean Newton : And why not?
David Grant : Because a honeymoon isn't something you can put away in cold storage like a mink coat. It just isn't the same moment - and it certainly isn't the same honeymoon.
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Freddie Harper : Let me tell it, pal.
David Grant : You tell it, pal.
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David Grant : Has he a job?
Jean Newton : Certainly. He's an engineer.
David Grant : Civil? Military? Mining?
Jean Newton : Insurance.
David Grant : Well, this is the age of new professions.
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Jean Newton : What makes you think I'd go with you anyway?
David Grant : Something that almost escaped me, until I looked a little closer.
Jean Newton : What?
David Grant : That adventurous little twinkle in your right eye.
Jean Newton : You're crazy. You are crazy! I am a perfectly conventional, proper person. I'm even - straight-laced!
David Grant : But, you're not dull.
Jean Newton : I am. I am! I could be the dullest person you ever met!
David Grant : My dear, Miss Newton, will you allow me to take the risk? Good night.
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Jean Newton : I wish I could understand you. You're either crazy or you're running away from something.
David Grant : Well, maybe.
Jean Newton : What?
David Grant : I don't know. Perhaps the same things you're headed for: security and respectability. I had them once.
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David Grant : This is an adventure. Let's forget my past and your future and enjoy the poetic present.
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Jean Newton : You need it. You know you do.
David Grant : Oh, no. I only needed it for one thing.
Jean Newton : What?
David Grant : Well, the - the - again the experiment! An artistic experiment. That, as you say, people would confuse with an improper suggestion.
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Aunt Lucy : [to Jean about David] Don't be frightened of him dear. He won't bite you.
David Grant : Oh, I don't know.
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David Grant : You dazzle me.
Jean Newton : I dazzle myself.
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David Grant : [on the phone] Can you hear the music?
Jean Newton : Yes.
David Grant : Lovely, isn't it?
Jean Newton : Yes.
David Grant : Soft.
Jean Newton : And dreamy.
David Grant : Like a lullaby.
Jean Newton : Yes, it's lovely.
David Grant : Is the moon shinning in through your window?
Jean Newton : Yes.
David Grant : I can just see you. A shaft of pale blue light falling across your bed - and your face like a soft shadow on your pillow.
Jean Newton : Can you really see me?
David Grant : Of course I can.
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David Grant : Will you tell her that my attorney is here and I'd like him to represent her.
Aunt Lucy : Well, she says she hasn't done anything she can't explain herself. So, she's going to be her own counsel. Portia, you know, and all that sort of thing.
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David Grant : Did my client leave you a letter, before he left you at Niagara Falls?
Jean Newton : You know perfectly well you did. Eh, he did. You did!
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Judge : On that trip you made love to her.
David Grant : Once, your Honor.
Judge : I don't care how often. Answer my question.
David Grant : Yes, your Honor.
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David Grant : When did you fall in love with Miss Newton, Mr. Somerset?
Jean Newton : Your Honor, I object!
David Grant : I think it must have been when she called a sweepstake ticket a stoopsnake swicket.
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David Grant : Mr. Somerset, do you think, that as a man with your record, you had any right to make love to her?
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Jean Newton : What's the matter with your mode of life?
David Grant : Well, nothing from my point of view, but, a great deal form everyone else's. For example, it has been described as: beachcombing.