My Favorite Wife (1940)

Clive Morgan: Postponed Case Lawyer

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• [first lines] 

  Judge Walter Bryson : [as the omnipotent viewer/camera enters the Los Angeles County Court Of General Sessions / Judge Walter Bryson Presiding and as the bickering over a previous case dies down]  Alright, alright. The case is postponed till next Thursday. Now that'll be the 26th.

  Postponed Case Lawyer : Thank you Your Honor.

  Judge Walter Bryson : Be here.

  Court Clerk Beside Judge Bryson : Are the parties ready in the matter of Ellen Wagstaff Arden?

  Nick Arden : Yes here.

  [smiles endearingly at Bianca and approaches the bench] 

  Nick Arden : Good morning Your Honor.

  Judge Walter Bryson : Good morning.

  [the somewhat confusingly complicated and situationally humorous case of Arden-Wagstaff-etc. begins]