Pillow to Post (1945)

Ida Lupino: Jean Howard

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• Jean Howard : Love is a beautiful thing.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : I get two hours of it every Saturday night at a movie. That's enough for me.

• Jean Howard : You don't have to know me. All you have to do is marry me. I mean, pretend to marry me, just for a little while.

• Jean Howard : It's so hard to tell if a man is married. Course, a girl always wears a ring on her finger.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Mmm hmm, a man always wears one through his nose.

• Lieut. Don Mallory : You mean, if you can be married and stay single, fine, but...

  Jean Howard : Yes.

• Jean Howard : Are you a single lieutenant?

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Yes. Just one.

• Lieut. Don Mallory : [Seeing Jean in a skimpy nightgown]  Holy mackerel!

  Jean Howard : What are you staring at?

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Is that a special outfit for brushing your teeth?

  Jean Howard : It happens to be the latest thing in night-ware.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Oh... I suppose it gives you more freedom?

  Jean Howard : Well, that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?

• Earl 'Slim' Clark : You're going too fast for me. I have to have time to think things like this over.

  Jean Howard : Mr. Clark, you don't seem like the hesitating type to me.

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : I'm not exactly hesitating. I'm just kind of hard to get. Now, you got to work on me a little while. Now, last year, for instance, Foster took me for a week's fishing trip for an order. How badly do you want this one? Say, a dinner's worth?

  Jean Howard : Surely I don't need to bribe you, Mr. Clark.

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : You don't call my taking you out to dinner bribing me, do you?

• J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply : This is a man's job.

  Jean Howard : Why?

  J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply : Well, well it is! That's all. Who ever heard of a female oil well supply salesman? Why, I'd be laughed right out of the business.

• Jean Howard : You see, I'm not married. But, I'm supposed to be. I don't mean that I'm going to be. I just mean that people think that I am. I'm not. Oh dear. I must sound confused.

• Jean Howard : I'm the guy from Howard's.

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : Well, *hello*. Brother!

  Jean Howard : Did you get our wire?

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : Yes.

  [looking Jean up-and-down] 

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : Say, I've heard about things like this; but, I thought the only time you saw it was when you went without water for a week or two.

  Jean Howard : Well, won't you ask fellow to sit down?

• Jean Howard : I'm not going to be talked to that way by you or anybody else - in or out of uniform. Now, who's your commanding officer?

  Colonel Michael Otley : My commanding officer?

  Jean Howard : Yes! I'm going to report you.

  Colonel Michael Otley : Report? Well, oh, if you were only a WAC!

• Lieut. Don Mallory : Listen, lady, what would you think if you picked up a strange man and he wanted to do what you want to do?

  Jean Howard : All I want to do is sleep!

• Lieut. Don Mallory : If my commanding officer ever found it out, he'd...

  Jean Howard : Oh, but he doesn't have to find it out. This is just between you and me. And when it's all over, you can forget it.

• Lieut. Don Mallory : A strange man is picking you up here?

  Jean Howard : Oh, there's nothing strange about him. He's a customer.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : What am I supposed to do? Stay home and knit?

• Colonel Michael Otley : Attack your problem, my boy. Attack it. Mrs. Otley and I had the right idea 30 years ago. We made it a counter-order, no matter what rages in our hearts, to kiss each other. She'll find it pretty hard to shout at you after a kiss.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : But, you mean, I...

  Jean Howard : Are you suggesting that he kiss me?

  Colonel Michael Otley : As his commanding officer, it could be interpreted as an order!

• Jean Howard : A business engagement. I suppose I should have told you before. I sell oil well supplies.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Oil well supplies?

• Jean Howard : I'm *not* a tactical military problem!

• Jean Howard : Well, are we off?

  Earl 'Slim' Clark : Yeah, I think we're way off, lady.

• Jean Howard : You're not jealous, are you?

  Lieut. Don Mallory : Jealous? Of you and that long drink of oil? Heh.

• Captain Jack Ross : Now Millie doesn't want an avocado. What does that mean.

  Jean Howard : Try cantaloupe.

  Captain Jack Ross : Oh, thank you. This may be a night to remember.

  Jean Howard : It may be one to forget.

• Lieut. Don Mallory : You might have had more respect for me, you know. Look at your face. It's bad enough going out with a strange guy without coming back with your *lipstick* all smeared.

  Jean Howard : Oh, dear. I can't imagine how it happened.

  Lieut. Don Mallory : It usually comes from necking!

• Jean Howard : I suppose you think I shouldn't be out selling my oil supplies.

• Jean Howard : Men are only, sort of, practically overgrown boys, you know.