A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Jeanne Crain: Deborah Bishop
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Quotes
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Deborah Bishop : No. Let's wait. Why let Addie spoil our day.
Rita Phipps : Not my day. Addie never saw the day she could spoil my day.
[looks at Lora Mae]
Rita Phipps : Did I put enough days into that?
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Deborah Bishop : Why is it that sooner or later no matter what we talk about... we wind up talking about Addie Ross?
Addie Ross : [off voice] Maybe it's because if you girls didn't talk about me you wouldn't talk at all.
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Deborah Bishop : [drunk] Who is Mister Ross?
Lora Mae Hollingsway : [sardonically] Mister Ross took a powder about five years ago.
Porter Hollingsway : No such thing, she gave him the heave-ho.
Lora Mae Hollingsway : [arguing] He went out for a paper one night and never came back!
Deborah Bishop : Porter says Addie Ross has got class.
Lora Mae Hollingsway : And he knows class like I know navigation!
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Deborah Bishop : Have you any idea how much Lora Mae is in love with you?
Porter Hollingsway : [scornfully] No! How much?
Deborah Bishop : So much she's afraid to tell you, afraid you'd laugh at her.
Porter Hollingsway : Me laugh? She couldn't say it with a straight face. Lora Mae in love with me? It's all she can do to wait it out.
Deborah Bishop : Wait it out?
Porter Hollingsway : Yeah, like an annuity till it matures. Like a slot machine till it pays off. That's what she's waiting for. A chance to call it off, to collect. "The end of the line. Fares, please." Don't tell me about love and Lora Mae.