Mr. District Attorney (1947)
George Coulouris: James Randolph
Quotes
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James Randolph : Marcia... how long are you going to hold out on me?
Marcia Manning : [plays with ring on her finger] How long you going to hold out on me?
James Randolph : I thought you said it was after business hours.
Marcia Manning : Sorry, Jim, but you see to me love is a luxury... something to forget about until I have security and can afford it.
James Randolph : You sound like an investment broker.
Marcia Manning : I suppose you want me to be romantic, like the songs about living on love and pale moonlight... that's all nonsense, Jim.
James Randolph : Seems to work all right for some women.
Marcia Manning : I know how it works, my mother tried it. When I was a kid I saw her waste her life fighting hunger and poverty... by the time she was 35 she was an old woman, left with *nothing*. 'Cept of course pale moonlight... that's not going to happen to me Jim, uhn-uh. That's why I want money and the security that comes with marriage. Then I... then I can afford the *luxury* of love.