The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Joel McCrea: Tom Jeffers
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Quotes
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Gerry Jeffers : Isn't it wonderful?
Tom Jeffers : Sensational. But you haven't quite answered my question yet.
Gerry Jeffers : What question, dear?
Tom Jeffers : Why this alleged old man gave you - how much is it?
Gerry Jeffers : Seven hundred dollars.
Tom Jeffers : Seven hundred dollars. Why?
Gerry Jeffers : No reason.
Tom Jeffers : Oh, is that so? He just - seven hundred dollars? Just like that?
Gerry Jeffers : Just like that.
Tom Jeffers : I mean, sex didn't even enter into it.
Tom Jeffers : Oh, but of course it did, darling. I don't think he'd have given it to me if I had hair like excelsior and little short legs like an alligator. Sex always has something to do with it, dear.
Tom Jeffers : I see.
Gerry Jeffers : From the time you're about so big and wondering why your girlfriends' fathers are getting so arch all of a sudden. Nothing wrong - just an overture to the opera that's coming.
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Tom Jeffers : So this fellow gave you the look?
Gerry Jeffers : At his age it was more of a blink.
Tom Jeffers : Seven hundred dollars! And sex didn't even enter into it, I suppose?
Gerry Jeffers : Sex always has something to do with it, dear.
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Gerry Jeffers : I might marry again and I might not. Maybe I'll become an adventuress.
Tom Jeffers : I can just see you on a 26 foot boat.
Gerry Jeffers : You're thinking of an adventurer, an adventuress never travels on anything less than a 300 foot long yacht with an 80 man crew.
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Tom Jeffers : Where'd you get that dress?
Gerry Jeffers : Why, that's what I've been telling you about!
Tom Jeffers : What's that on your wrist?
Gerry Jeffers : It's just what you think it is, dear.
[He looks at the bracelet on her wrist]
Tom Jeffers : What kind of stones are those?
Gerry Jeffers : Just what they look like.
Tom Jeffers : Do you know what it feels like to be strangled by bare hands?
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Tom Jeffers : [talking about his new name, "McGlew"] I guess I'll have to stick with it.
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Tom Jeffers : Was she alone?
Train Porter : Well, you might practically say she's alone. The gentleman who got off with her gave me ten cents from New York to Jacksonville... she's alone, but she don't know it.
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Tom Jeffers : Don't you ever talk about anything but Topic A?
Princess Centimillia : Is there anything else?
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Tom Jeffers : Funny having to sleep with a sitting-room between us.
Gerry Jeffers : And the doors locked.
Tom Jeffers : You don't have to worry about that.
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Tom Jeffers : Why is your breath coming faster?
Gerry Jeffers : Because you're squeezing me!
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Tom Jeffers : That's my wife, you dumb cluck!
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Gerry Jeffers : I'm just a milestone around your neck.
Tom Jeffers : Millstone.
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Tom Jeffers : Where'd you meet this Weenie King?
Gerry Jeffers : You'll die laughing!
Tom Jeffers : All right, convulse me.
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Tom Jeffers : What's that you've got on your wrist?
Tom Jeffers , Gerry Jeffers : Just what you think it is, dear.
Tom Jeffers : What kind of stones are those?
Tom Jeffers , Gerry Jeffers : Just what they look like.
Tom Jeffers : Do you know what it feels like to be strangled with bare hands?