Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

Apples on the Lilac Tree (1956)

Macdonald Carey: William Tyler

Quotes 

• William Tyler : I can't understand it. She got the recipe out of my own cookbook.

  Prof. Weston : Lucretia Borgia must have written it...

• William Tyler : Look, you didn't complain when I started to cook. Remember I ruined all kinds of meals.

  Maggie Tyler : Ooh, that was different. It was long ago and our stomachs were better.

• Maggie Tyler : You're trying to subjugate me. You're trying to hold me down. You don't want me to be a brilliant young executive. You just want me to be a, a woman.

  William Tyler : Well, if you try it once, you might like that, too!

• [last lines] 

  Maggie Tyler : Darling, you sit down. I'll make you breakfast.

  William Tyler : Oh, no. You've got to take care of yourself. *You* sit down.

  Maggie Tyler : Oh - well - I've got to learn how to be a wife *sometime*.

  William Tyler : You know, I think you're beginning to catch on.