Pillow to Post (1945)
Ida Lupino: Jean Howard
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Quotes
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Jean Howard : Love is a beautiful thing.
Lieut. Don Mallory : I get two hours of it every Saturday night at a movie. That's enough for me.
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Jean Howard : You don't have to know me. All you have to do is marry me. I mean, pretend to marry me, just for a little while.
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Jean Howard : It's so hard to tell if a man is married. Course, a girl always wears a ring on her finger.
Lieut. Don Mallory : Mmm hmm, a man always wears one through his nose.
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Lieut. Don Mallory : You mean, if you can be married and stay single, fine, but...
Jean Howard : Yes.
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Jean Howard : Are you a single lieutenant?
Lieut. Don Mallory : Yes. Just one.
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Lieut. Don Mallory : [Seeing Jean in a skimpy nightgown] Holy mackerel!
Jean Howard : What are you staring at?
Lieut. Don Mallory : Is that a special outfit for brushing your teeth?
Jean Howard : It happens to be the latest thing in night-ware.
Lieut. Don Mallory : Oh... I suppose it gives you more freedom?
Jean Howard : Well, that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?
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Earl 'Slim' Clark : You're going too fast for me. I have to have time to think things like this over.
Jean Howard : Mr. Clark, you don't seem like the hesitating type to me.
Earl 'Slim' Clark : I'm not exactly hesitating. I'm just kind of hard to get. Now, you got to work on me a little while. Now, last year, for instance, Foster took me for a week's fishing trip for an order. How badly do you want this one? Say, a dinner's worth?
Jean Howard : Surely I don't need to bribe you, Mr. Clark.
Earl 'Slim' Clark : You don't call my taking you out to dinner bribing me, do you?
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J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply : This is a man's job.
Jean Howard : Why?
J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply : Well, well it is! That's all. Who ever heard of a female oil well supply salesman? Why, I'd be laughed right out of the business.
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Jean Howard : You see, I'm not married. But, I'm supposed to be. I don't mean that I'm going to be. I just mean that people think that I am. I'm not. Oh dear. I must sound confused.
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Jean Howard : I'm the guy from Howard's.
Earl 'Slim' Clark : Well, *hello*. Brother!
Jean Howard : Did you get our wire?
Earl 'Slim' Clark : Yes.
[looking Jean up-and-down]
Earl 'Slim' Clark : Say, I've heard about things like this; but, I thought the only time you saw it was when you went without water for a week or two.
Jean Howard : Well, won't you ask fellow to sit down?
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Jean Howard : I'm not going to be talked to that way by you or anybody else - in or out of uniform. Now, who's your commanding officer?
Colonel Michael Otley : My commanding officer?
Jean Howard : Yes! I'm going to report you.
Colonel Michael Otley : Report? Well, oh, if you were only a WAC!
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Lieut. Don Mallory : Listen, lady, what would you think if you picked up a strange man and he wanted to do what you want to do?
Jean Howard : All I want to do is sleep!
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Lieut. Don Mallory : If my commanding officer ever found it out, he'd...
Jean Howard : Oh, but he doesn't have to find it out. This is just between you and me. And when it's all over, you can forget it.
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Lieut. Don Mallory : A strange man is picking you up here?
Jean Howard : Oh, there's nothing strange about him. He's a customer.
Lieut. Don Mallory : What am I supposed to do? Stay home and knit?
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Colonel Michael Otley : Attack your problem, my boy. Attack it. Mrs. Otley and I had the right idea 30 years ago. We made it a counter-order, no matter what rages in our hearts, to kiss each other. She'll find it pretty hard to shout at you after a kiss.
Lieut. Don Mallory : But, you mean, I...
Jean Howard : Are you suggesting that he kiss me?
Colonel Michael Otley : As his commanding officer, it could be interpreted as an order!
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Jean Howard : A business engagement. I suppose I should have told you before. I sell oil well supplies.
Lieut. Don Mallory : Oil well supplies?
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Jean Howard : I'm *not* a tactical military problem!
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Jean Howard : Well, are we off?
Earl 'Slim' Clark : Yeah, I think we're way off, lady.
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Jean Howard : You're not jealous, are you?
Lieut. Don Mallory : Jealous? Of you and that long drink of oil? Heh.
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Captain Jack Ross : Now Millie doesn't want an avocado. What does that mean.
Jean Howard : Try cantaloupe.
Captain Jack Ross : Oh, thank you. This may be a night to remember.
Jean Howard : It may be one to forget.
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Lieut. Don Mallory : You might have had more respect for me, you know. Look at your face. It's bad enough going out with a strange guy without coming back with your *lipstick* all smeared.
Jean Howard : Oh, dear. I can't imagine how it happened.
Lieut. Don Mallory : It usually comes from necking!
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Jean Howard : I suppose you think I shouldn't be out selling my oil supplies.
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Jean Howard : Men are only, sort of, practically overgrown boys, you know.