You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Isobel Elsom: Mrs. Maria Castro

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• Eduardo Acuña : It's my invariable rule to distrust women's tastes in clothes.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : That's why he asked me to come by.

• Juan Castro : First time I ever heard of a father selecting a trousseau.

  Eduardo Acuña : You know as well as I do that women dress for one another and not for men. Delfina's mother decked her out in fluff when I married her and she's been decked out in fluff ever sense. Does your son like fluff?

  Mrs. Maria Castro : My dear, for the first few weeks he won't even know what Julia's wearing.

• Mrs. Maria Castro : Sophistication? Fiddlesticks! Maria's as old fashioned as a hoop skirt.

• Eduardo Acuña : She hasn't fallen in love since she was 15, when she got starry eyed about that silly man on a white horse.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : Lochinvar?

  Eduardo Acuña : Yes, you'd think she would have outgrown a tin hero by now. She's probably waiting around for a myth to come to life!

• Mrs. Maria Castro : Will you stop thinking of Maria as a child. She's a woman.

  Eduardo Acuña : And I know women. They all fall in love with an illusion.

• Mrs. Maria Castro : All right, he made love to you under false pretenses; but, he's serious now.

• Maria Acuña : I can't forgive him for the things he did to make me fall in love with him.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : What about all the things you did to make him fall in love with you? When you've got a fish hooked, haul him in.