I Love Trouble (1948)

Janet Blair: Norma Shannon

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Quotes 

• Norma Shannon : Oh, Bailey, you're about as subtle as a Mickey Finn.

• Stuart Bailey : [Norma entering Bailey's office after the invitation]  Well, come in. Is this love or were you looking for a detective?

  Norma Shannon : Isn't there any other alternative?

  Stuart Bailey : Yes, but I haven't got time for it.

• [last lines] 

  [Boots walks into the room expecting to have a romantic interlude with Bailey, instead seeing three women in the room, one, Norma, who is in his arms] 

  Boots Nestor : [as she walks by each of the women]  Well, well. I didn't think there'd be a line.

  Norma Shannon : [as she and Bailey kiss]  I've got news for you, dear. This is the end of the line.

• Norma Shannon : Well, I wouldn't have missed meeting you for all the world. The first time I've gone slumming in years.

  Stuart Bailey : You win. You see in this racket, you learn to suspect the worst of everyone. The few times you are wrong, you have to apologize. I'm apologizing.

  Norma Shannon : Well, thank you. I appreciate it.

  Stuart Bailey : You should. Humble pie gives me hives.

• Stuart Bailey : You know, I'm the kind of a guy who can admit he's been a dope.

  Norma Shannon : And I'm the kind of a gal that can go for a dope like you.

• Norma Shannon : Let me go!

  Stuart Bailey : [grabbing her shoulders]  Listen, I've been burned before. I've been given a high-class hotfoot with a gold-plated lighter. Either you're phony or most of my facts are. I'm still trying to find out which.

• Norma Shannon : Acute cynicism. I suppose it's an occupational disease, isn't it.

  Stuart Bailey : Yeah, it's the people I meet.

• Norma Shannon : You know, it just hit me, why you took me to your apartment last night. Just to see the photograph. That was all.

  Stuart Bailey : Something like that.

  Norma Shannon : And I thought you wanted to see what kind of a girl I was.

  Stuart Bailey : I know what kind of a girl you are.

  Norma Shannon : No you don't.

• Stuart Bailey : As I said once before: you're good.

  Norma Shannon : I suppose you meant that to be nasty. I found it rather nice.

• Norma Shannon : Last night, you took me to your apartment. We had our drinks. You took me home. No tired line. No phony preliminaries. I like that kind of guy.