The Divorcee (1930)
Chester Morris: Ted
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Quotes
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : I'd like to make love to you till you scream for help.
Jerry Bernard Martin : [Putting her hands around her throat to pantomine stifling a scream] Can't scream.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : It's a New Year in a minute, Ted. All the world gets a new chance.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Don't kid me, Jerry. I'd give my right arm for another chance.
Jerry Bernard Martin : I like that right arm. How about putting it around me?
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Jerry Bernard Martin : Then, she has a right to look at you any way she likes?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : [Admitting his infidelity] Now, see here Jerry. I'm sorry darling, of course. But, there's no sense in overplaying it. There's nothing to it. Oh, come on, snap out of it. It isn't the end of the world, darling. Why, gosh, I don't care a snap of my fingers for any woman in the world but you. If-if I'd killed somebody, you'd go all the way and back again for me. I'd ask you to try and forgive me, if I thought it was the right thing to do. But that isn't the point. But, darling, you've got to get a broader look at things, that's all. Why, you're out in the world doing a man's work. Was that just a lot of talk about a man's point of view? Oh, please believe me, darling. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing! It doesn't make the slightest difference. Come on, snap out of it. Now, pull yourself together.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : [Long Kiss] Wooo! My head's going 'round like a pinwheel.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : And my heart's beating like a steam engine. Feel.
Jerry Bernard Martin : Ha-ha-ha. When did you first start having heart trouble?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : From the first moment I met you.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : Your cheeriness is amazing.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Well, what do you mean?
Jerry Bernard Martin : You're like a little boy that's stolen some jam. Then, spanked and kissed and happy again.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : What am I going to be doing while you're saving your first million?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Waiting for me.
Jerry Bernard Martin : [Giggles] Waiting isn't my idea of the king of indoor sports. I've no intention of waiting around for three or four years while you harvest an additional crop of wild oats.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Who's the man?
Jerry Bernard Martin : Oh, Ted, don't be conventional!
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Jerry Bernard Martin : [Referring to a new ring] Oh, you dear, it's lovely.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Will you think of me every time you look at it?
Jerry Bernard Martin : As though I didn't think of you every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
[Kiss]
Jerry Bernard Martin : Oh, darling.
[Looking at the ring]
Jerry Bernard Martin : Gee, that's slick.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : It can't be true. Why, I always thought you were the most decent thing in the world. It can't be true.
Jerry Bernard Martin : Well, it is.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : We both made a horrible mistake, but that doesn't mean we can't try again.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Try again? With all our friends laughing at me?
Jerry Bernard Martin : Laughing at you?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Yes. Someplace among the people we know, there's a man. Maybe men, I don't know. But from now on, I wonder which one. And how many of them are laughing at me.
Jerry Bernard Martin : Well, couldn't I have said that the day you asked me to marry you? Supposing I had said, "No, Ted, I'm afraid I may meet the women that you've known"? And why not? I waited for you? You were my first love.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : But this is entirely different.
Jerry Bernard Martin : All right, then, but tonight I come back here, ready to humiliate myself, beg for your forgiveness, ready to forgive you anything, because I love you, and you say that's different? You tell me your vanity is hurt?
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Oh, you're a great girl. And you know you've got a man's point of view.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : Ted and I are going to be married and stay married. Aren't we, darling.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Yes, we're going to stay married.
Don : How unpatriotic. A man should be willing to lay down more than one wife for his country.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : Say, Romeo, are you packed?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Coming up to finish, Juliet.
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Janice : Why haven't I heard from you in a month?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Conscience.
Janice : You're not that old fashioned, are you?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Now see here, Janice. I was plastered, and you know it.
Janice : Oh, but you're not such a sterling character when my arms are around you.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Porter, how long do we stop at the next station? Long enough to telephone?
Second Porter : Yes, sir, if you ain't gonna talk to nobody too far. It's supposed to stop there about six minutes.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : So why didn't you answer the wires I sent you?
Jerry Bernard Martin : Oh, there was a lot to think about. And the longer you wait, the more sense you get.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : You know, letting things ride the way you did, certainly whipped me plenty. Boy, you know I imagined all sorts of receptions when I got home.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : Ted, let me understand something. When you say that being unfaithful doesn't mean anything, you mean just that, don't you?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Well, what I said was...
Jerry Bernard Martin : Yes, I remember what you said. It doesn't mean a thing.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Funny, isn't it. How one girl can be bigger than all the tall buildings.
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Theodore 'Ted' Martin : Husbands should never be late. No, sir. You never know who's sitting on the bench, waiting to take your place when you fall out of the game.
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Jerry Bernard Martin : I'm glad I discovered that more than one man in the world while I'm young and they want me. Believe me, I'm not missing anything from now on!
Theodore 'Ted' Martin : I don't doubt it - once a woman throws down her fences!