The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Virginia Mayo: Marie Derry

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• Marie Derry : Say, who is this Peggy Stephenson?

  Fred Derry : She's a girl.

  Marie Derry : I didn't think she was a kangaroo!

• Marie Derry : What do you think I was doing all those years?

  Fred Derry : I don't know, babe, but I can guess.

  Marie Derry : Go ahead. Guess your head off. I could do some guessing myself. What were you up to in London and Paris and all those places? I've given you every chance to make something of yourself. I gave up my own job when you asked me. I gave up the best years of my life, and what have you done? You flopped! Couldn't even hold that job at the drugstore. So I'm going back to work for myself and that means I'm gonna live for myself too. And in case you don't understand English, I'm gonna get a divorce. What have you got to say to that?

  [Eight seconds of silence] 

  Fred Derry : Don't keep Cliff waiting.

• Marie Derry : What are you gonna do?

  Fred Derry : I'm going away.

  Marie Derry : Where?

  Fred Derry : As far away from Boone City as I can get.

  Marie Derry : That's a good idea. You'll get a good job someplace else. There are drugstores everywhere.

• Marie Derry : Are you alright in your mind? Can't you get those things out of your system? Maybe that's what's holding you back! You know, the war's over! You won't get anyplace 'til you stop thinking about it. Come on - snap out of it!