It Started with Eve (1941)

Robert Cummings: Jonathan Reynolds Jr.

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Quotes 

• [Jonny drags Anne off the train to pose as his fiancee again, leaving her friends open-mouthed] 

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Come on, I'll give you another fifty dollars!

  Jenny : Well, what do you know!

  Jackie Donovan : Don't worry, Jenny, it's platonic. He wants her for his father.

• [to his dying father] 

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Oh, say, the fishing in Mexico - there's nothing like it. It's not really fishing... it's kind of big game hunting. They have fish with teeth and horns - a throwback to the buffalo. You go out in a boat and the fish charge at you. You just got to catch 'em in self-defense. You and I and two machine guns are going down there next month.

• Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Oh, I think you have a nice room. It's... different.

  Anne Terry : Uh-huh. On a clear day you can see all the way across it.

• [Jonny tries to convince his father that Anne hates him] 

  Jonathan Reynolds : What did she call me?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator.

• [Jonny angrily chases Anne around his living room] 

  Anne Terry : Going around pinching people at your age.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : When I get three seconds older, I'm going to start punching people.

• [Jonny is still chasing Anne around his living room] 

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : If you hear something snap, don't turn around - it'll be your neck.

• Anne Terry : You told me you'd have that picture destroyed!

  Jonathan Reynolds : Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They?

  Jonathan Reynolds : Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They're gone! I mean... they've gone?

  Jonathan Reynolds : Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.

• [last lines] 

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : All right, I'm sorry I pinched you.

  Anne Terry : Honest?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Mm-hmm.

  Anne Terry : You'll never do it again?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Never.

  Anne Terry : Promise?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Mm-hmm.

  [Jonny leans forward as if to kiss Anne] 

  Anne Terry : JONNY!

• Jonathan Reynolds : [to Anne Terry]  What was it you called me? Pompous, self-indulgent?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : [Looking smugly at Anne]  Imitation of a dictator.

  Jonathan Reynolds : It's true. It's me all over. And you'd do well to correct those faults in yourself, me boy.

• Dr. Harvey : It is my firm conviction Mrs. Pennington is a medical freak. I was watching her, and no normal person can talk as long as she does without taking a breath. For a second there I thought you weren't going to calm them down. You were almost an ex-fiancé.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Yeah, it was pretty close.

• Anne Terry : They haven't been able to prove definitely that people inherit traits from their parents. They have with horses.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Yes, I know about the horses.

• Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : I bring you here by accident and my father likes you so much, that we can't tell him the truth.

  Anne Terry : Oh, he'd have liked anybody you brought.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Oh, no, he wouldn't. You should have seen the looks he gave some I brought home.

  Anne Terry : Did, did you bring home a great many?

  Anne Terry : I mean, just as friends, you know.

• Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : [With Dr. Harvey, walking in on Jonathan in the kitchen]  How do you feel, Dad?

  Jonathan Reynolds : How do I know? Ask him.