Two Thousand Women (1944)
Jean Kent: Bridie Johnson
Quotes
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Bridie Johnson : For six months I've put up with that. Listening to her talk like the muck she used to write.
Freda Thompson : Her smack at my career.
Bridie Johnson : Career? Sob sister on the yellow rag of a paper. Some career.
Freda Thompson : I place that slightly above a twice-night strip teaser in a third rate music hall.
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Teresa King : Tea - that's all they ever think about in this place.
Maud Wright : Tea - and men.
Margaret Long : I've almost forgotten what they look like.
Bridie Johnson : They wear trousers. I remember that.
Maud Wright : That's trouble number two in this place. If you can imagine a very large harem with the Sultan away for his annual holiday, well, that's us.
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Freda Thompson : What can that fellow mean to you anyway?
Bridie Johnson : How can you know what he means to me?
Freda Thompson : I've a rough idea: three hectic nights, a half a dozen aspirin and here's to the next time.
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Bridie Johnson : What did you do before the war?
Rosemary Brown : Nothing really.
Bridie Johnson : You must've done something - everybody does something.
Freda Thompson : If she doesn't want to tell us, that's her affair. If you ask me the sooner we forget the past the better.
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Bridie Johnson : Do I exist?
Freda Thompson : You do but I feel it's a mistake. This is Bridie Johnson, known to half Paris, the male half, as Bubbles Kelly.