Dream Wife (1953)

Les Tremayne: Ken Landwell

Quotes 

• Clemson Reade : There isn't one of you can look me straight in the eye and tell me you're happily married. You've had to make a million compromises. Why do we always have to cater to women? We put them on pedestals, we make up cockeyed rules about the weaker sex. You get into an elevator with one of the weaker sex and you take off our hat in some kind of pagan tribute. Twenty minutes later the same delicate female is driving a taxicab through traffic and cursing like a muleskinner. We keep treating them like flowers and they keep outliving us. Right now they control 70% of the wealth of this country and are they satisfied? No, they want to control the country. They're Ambassadors, they're in the Senate, they're even in the State Department.

  Ken Landwell : That fight with Effie must have been a lulu.

• Ken Landwell : [talking about his wife]  Jean and I haven't had a quarrel in 10 years. We're never in the same room long enough.

• Ken Landwell : Clem, how did you train her to light your cigarette?

  Clemson Reade : I didn't train her. She's not a trick dog. All she cares about is whether I'm happy. It's a natural instinct.

  Henry Malvine : Some instinct.

  Charlie Elkwood : Tell us about some of her other instincts.

• Mrs. Jean Landwell : Here, put my gloves in your pocket.

  Ken Landwell : But, darling, I'm already carrying your compact.

  Mrs. Jean Landwell : Do as I tell you.