My Favorite Wife (1940)

Gail Patrick: Bianca Bates

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Quotes 

• Judge Walter Bryson : [in the courtroom trying to solve/etc. the Arden case]  Where'd you go to school?

  Nick Arden : Harvard.

  Judge Walter Bryson : Uh huh. I'm a Yale man myself.

  [to Bianca] 

  Judge Walter Bryson : Are you the bride?

  Bianca Bates : Yes Your Honor.

  Judge Walter Bryson : Mmhmm. Kissless?

  Bianca Bates : Yes Your Honor.

  Judge Walter Bryson : [motions to the court clerk denoting an obvious example proving his subtle case of character about Nick]  Harvard man.

• Judge Walter Bryson : [as Ellen and Stephen enter back into the courtroom, uproarious laughter is heard coming from the spectators and the Judge pounds his gavel in attempt to bring order to the court after Bianca has apparently just punched Nick in the nose]  I'll have no violence in my courtroom.

  Bianca Bates : [as she slams the money/fee down on the court Bench]  $25 and it was worth it!

  [to Nick] 

  Bianca Bates : And all I have to say to you is that, as far as I'm concerned, *you're* legally dead.

  [she storms out of the courtroom] 

• Nick Arden : [starting an explanation to her as she sobs]  Now let me start from the beginning. Now, once... once there was a man who met a girl. He'd been living alone, for quite some time. Well he told the girl he loved her, and in the natural cause of events he married said girl.

  Bianca Bates : What are you trying to say?

  Nick Arden : Just this: Bianca...

  [the doorbell rings] 

  Nick Arden : doorbell, that's the main part - I'll be right back.

  [he rushes out of the room thankful at temporarily escaping having to explain the situation to her and she begins to sob again]