Seven Days in May (1964)

Ava Gardner: Eleanor Holbrook

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• Eleanor Holbrook : I'll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare.

• Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : What is it? Is it just Scott?

  Eleanor Holbrook : It's Scott. It's that and everything. It's my whole damned life.

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : You're not the first dame to ever wind up on the bottom of the deck. It happens every day. What matters is how a person lives with it.

• Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Stop playing the part of the anguished drunk, digging olives out of martinis and boring everybody with tragic stories. You know, sober, Ellie, you're a bright, beautiful dame. Good to have around.

  Eleanor Holbrook : Will you drive me home, Jiggs?

• Eleanor Holbrook : I was a stupid, impressionable female who let an Air Force General use her like his personal airplane.

• Eleanor Holbrook : Don't tell me after all this time you're making a pass, Jiggs.

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : The window's open. You could always scream.

• Eleanor Holbrook : Here, here.

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Ellie. I didn't know you were back in town.

  Eleanor Holbrook : You never looked.

• Eleanor Holbrook : You surprised me tonight, Colonel Casey. The voice of reason coming out of a military man?

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I've got a lot of hidden talents.

  Eleanor Holbrook : Oh, I suspected that right along. Ever since my ex-lover introduced us. And how is the staunch General Scott? And his lovely wife?

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : He keeps busy.

  Eleanor Holbrook : So I read. There's a sizeable portion of the citizenry who says that he's the savior of the western world.

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : He does his job, Ellie.

  Eleanor Holbrook : Well, take care of him, Jiggs. See that he rests on the seventh day.

• Eleanor Holbrook : You're a great crutch. It's too bad you're only available 20 minutes at a time.

  Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : You can't tell. Sometimes the country can spare me for a whole evening. Give me a rain check and I'll prove it.

  Eleanor Holbrook : Tuck it somewhere safe where you won't forget it.

• Eleanor Holbrook : Did you know that I'm a swinging cook?

• Eleanor Holbrook : Colonel Casey is always ready to clean up the General's privy!

• Eleanor Holbrook : Trying to soften me up with a little preliminary lovemaking - that was dirty pool, Jiggs.