Together Again (1944)

Irene Dunne: Anne Crandall

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• Anne Crandall : [Defending her life]  It's comfortable

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : You're too young to be comfortable.

  Anne Crandall : But I have you, you miserable old reprobate!

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : I can think of a couple of things you haven't got.

  Anne Crandall : What?

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : Well, you're a widow!

  Anne Crandall : Yes?

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : And, uh, don't be so darn difficult.

• Maid : There's only three things can start a woman talkin' to herself: her bank account, her man, and her reputation, and they all three the same things, ain't they?

  Anne Crandall : My my, it certainly is philosophical out tonight.

• Anne Crandall : [to George]  Oh, I knew if you came here something would happen, but frankly I didn't think it would end up with me being your mother-in-law.

• Diana Crandall : Well, I can't help it if I'm metabolic, can I?

  Anne Crandall : Darling, please. You'll feel wretched tomorrow.

  Diana Crandall : Of course I will, but it won't be my fault will it? I'm perfectly willing to be healthy, but if certain persons are always upsetting your glands, how can I?

• Jonathan Crandall Sr : It hurts my soul to see a beautiful dish like you wasted on a neurotic stepchild, a head of a statue and a fussy community like Brookhaven.

  Anne Crandall : You can't bear to see a woman living alone and liking it. No man can. Instinctively, it terrifies them. You're a vanishing race and you know it, and the minute you lose your hold over us emotionally, wow.

• Anne Crandall : My, my, it certainly is philosophical out tonight.

• Witherspoon : It's manpower, your honor.

  Anne Crandall : Manpower, my eye. Use woman power, then.

  Witherspoon : Women, to collect garbage?

  Anne Crandall : Why not? Women see more garbage in their lives than men do, don't they? They might as well get paid for it.

• Anne Crandall : Oh, that was the strangest thing. I was standing right here with my dress in my hand, and all of a sudden, it disappeared. Right through the window.

• Anne Crandall : What's the matter with small-town mayors?

  George Corday : Well, they're on the narrow-minded side, let us say. I've never met one with a sense of humor. And they are always all out of shape.

  Anne Crandall : You don't say? Well I hope you have an exquisite sense of humor, Mr. Corday, because in about two seconds you're going to need it.

• George Corday : I have an appointment here with a small-town mayor at six o'clock. And you know, small-town mayors might not understand beautiful models running around.

  Anne Crandall : Oh, really, and why not?

  George Corday : Have you ever met a small-town mayor?

  Anne Crandall : Yes, I have, and I don't like your tone, Mr. Corday.

• Anne Crandall : What are you smiling about?

  George Corday : Life is full of surprises. I never thought I would so enjoy having a mayor in my arms.

• George Corday : Mm hmm. I have erased the question mark after affectionate. You see how one thing leads to another?

  Anne Crandall : Mr. Corday!

• Anne Crandall : Besides, you'd dislike Brookhaven intensely.

  George Corday : On the contrary, I'm beginning to feel a positive yearning for Brookhaven.

• George Corday : Well, I'm not going to apologize, you know. Because you're a fraud.

  Anne Crandall : I beg your...

  George Corday : You are. You are a fraud and a delusion. You deserved to be embarrassed.

  Anne Crandall : I...

  George Corday : You have no business running around with mayor insides and such a beautiful outside.

• George Corday : You've been a widow for five years?

  Anne Crandall : Well, naturally.

  George Corday : On the contrary, there is nothing natural about that.

• Anne Crandall : Mr. Corday, I may as well be very blunt.

  George Corday : By all means.

  Anne Crandall : I simply can't see you in Brookhaven. You don't fit. You don't think I'm rude?

• Anne Crandall : He's crazy, isn't he?

  George Corday : He's an artist. He paid you a great compliment, you know. There are very few necks that would throw him like that.

• Anne Crandall : Oh, please, please. This is my neck.

  Artist : It is not your neck. A neck like that belongs to the world. You have no right to hoard it as it if were an old ball of string.

  George Corday : All right, all right, Pete. I told you I need it for myself.

  Artist : All right. You wait till you want to borrow from me again. I loaned you a knee once, remember?

• Anne Crandall : Don't get that silly smirk on your face. It often thunders doesn't it?

• George Corday : Oh, Mrs. Crandall, these things are of no personal interest to me whatsoever, I assure you. It's simply that I need to know the man, that's all. This is a professional interview and I wish you would conduct it as such.

  Anne Crandall : Well, I...

  George Corday : Thank you.

• Anne Crandall : Mr. Corday, I don't believe you understood me. I just fired you.

• George Corday : [Asking about Anne's husband]  But, tell me. He did not enjoy having a mayor in his arms?

  Anne Crandall : How could he? He was the mayor.

  George Corday : Oh, that's right, of course. It's very confusing, isn't it?

• Lillian : Did you get the x-ray machine, your honor?

  Anne Crandall : What? Oh, no, no. The only one I saw was of a much too hgh voltage to be safe.

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : Was that the trouble with the sculptor, too?

• George Corday : [Guessing her weight, on a bet]  Mmm... hundred and ten.

  Anne Crandall : Why, that's amazing. Right on the nose?

  George Corday : Thanks. You're a liar, but thank you very much.

  Anne Crandall : What do you mean?

  George Corday : You weigh a hundred and twenty, but you knew I wanted very much to have dinner with you.

  Anne Crandall : Why, I haven't the faintest idea what I weigh. I haven't weighed lately.

  George Corday : I said thank you.

• George Corday : Mrs. Crandall, your persistence in placing this interview on a personal basis is very embarrassing to me.

  Anne Crandall : Embarrassing to you!

• Jessie : He's been trying to get you alone ever since he came here. Well, I see he's finally made it.

  Anne Crandall : Please, don't be silly, Jessie.

  Jessie : I might give you the same advice, Mayor Crandall.

• Anne Crandall : You probably wouldn't have liked the man anyway, darling. He was positively ancient to begin with. He probably wouldn't have lived to finish the statue. And you know something? He had a beard down to here

  [holds her hands in front of her stomach] 

  Anne Crandall : . A perfect bird's nest of a beard. Isn't that disgusting?

  Diana Crandall : A beard?

  Anne Crandall : Mm hmm.

  Diana Crandall : He did?

  Anne Crandall : Mm hmm. He was all grey too, and he kind of sniffled all the time.

  Diana Crandall : Oh, mother, why didn't you tell me this before?

  Anne Crandall : Well, I just didn't happen to think of it before.

• Anne Crandall : Honestly, you children have a vocabulary all your own, don't you?

• Anne Crandall : Diana, what on earth have you done to your hair?

  Diana Crandall : What have you done to yours?

  Anne Crandall : Mine? Oh, heh, heh.

  Diana Crandall : It makes you look awfully young, Mother.

  Anne Crandall , Diana Crandall : Is that bad?

  Diana Crandall : Oh, I guess not, but a person's age is a person's age.

• Anne Crandall : Mr. Corday, didn't you get my message? I left you a message.

  George Corday : Well, I left you about 10 messages.

  Anne Crandall : Yes, I know. Thank you very much for bailing me out.

• Anne Crandall : But, doesn't it make any difference to you that I don't want you here?

  George Corday : Mrs. Crandall, I feel that our civic spirit should completely overshadow any personal desires that we may have. I feel it is my duty to give Brookhaven a statue that... Anyway, why don't you want me here?

• Anne Crandall : I'm so mixed up. I've never been mixed up before in my life.

• Diana Crandall : Mother, do you feel all right?

  Anne Crandall : Why, certainly, what do you mean?

  Diana Crandall : I don't know. You used to be so quiet but lately you've been so kind of leapy.

  Anne Crandall : What a ridiculous word.

• Anne Crandall : Droop around a little, and pretend you can't eat. And I think there's an old shawl around I could let you have, uh huh huh. In other words, act your age, for a change.

• Anne Crandall : Mr. Corday, why do you want to stay here that badly?

  George Corday : That's what I want to find out.

• Anne Crandall : Well, you're not going to see him, idiot, because I fired him.

• Anne Crandall : You blackmailer!

  George Corday : Tch, tch. Mayor Crandall!

• Diana Crandall : But, but mother said you had a beard, down to here.

  Anne Crandall : Well, I thought you did. Didn't you?

  [Motioning toward Diana] 

  George Corday : [Giving Anne a scolding teacher' look, then picking it up]  A beard?... Oh, yes, yes. I did have a beard, but I shaved it off. It's so much warmer here in Vermont than in New York

• Anne Crandall : It would probably be downright dangerous for me to continue as mayor. No telling what might happen next.

  Witherspoon : Well, that certainly is a most unselfish way to look at it, Mrs... .. your honor.

• Anne Crandall : You told me once, I have too much character.

  George Corday : I've changed my mind - you haven't nearly enough.

• Jessie : Everybody in town is waiting for you at the statue, Mrs. Crandall, to give you a vote of confidence.

  Anne Crandall : Oh, Jessie.

  Jessie : We all agreed that no Crandall would act like that. And if they did, we wouldn't believe it.

• Anne Crandall : I wouldn't want the responsibility of daring the supernatural. Oh, I'll resign immediately.

  Jonathan Crandall Sr : [Seeing the towns people off]  Well, good night.

• Diana Crandall : [Coming in all excited with a newspaper in her hands]  Mother! Mother! Did you know this happened to you?

  Anne Crandall : Oh, darling, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

  Gilbert Parker : Mr., chm

  [clears his throat] 

  Gilbert Parker : , Mr. Corday, I challenge you to a duel.

  Diana Crandall : Gilbert, don't be so primeval. That is, unless Mr. Corday refuses.