Mr. District Attorney (1947)

Marguerite Chapman: Marcia Manning

Photos 

Quotes 

• James Randolph : Marcia... how long are you going to hold out on me?

  Marcia Manning : [plays with ring on her finger]  How long you going to hold out on me?

  James Randolph : I thought you said it was after business hours.

  Marcia Manning : Sorry, Jim, but you see to me love is a luxury... something to forget about until I have security and can afford it.

  James Randolph : You sound like an investment broker.

  Marcia Manning : I suppose you want me to be romantic, like the songs about living on love and pale moonlight... that's all nonsense, Jim.

  James Randolph : Seems to work all right for some women.

  Marcia Manning : I know how it works, my mother tried it. When I was a kid I saw her waste her life fighting hunger and poverty... by the time she was 35 she was an old woman, left with *nothing*. 'Cept of course pale moonlight... that's not going to happen to me Jim, uhn-uh. That's why I want money and the security that comes with marriage. Then I... then I can afford the *luxury* of love.