Illicit (1931)

Barbara Stanwyck: Anne Vincent

Photos 

Quotes 

• Richard 'Dick' Ives II : You look exactly like a peasant.

  Anne Vincent Ives : I am a peasant. There's no neurotic blood in me.

• [Last lines] 

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : No more theories then?

  Anne Vincent Ives : What have theories to do with love?

• Anne Vincent Ives : Why Georgie, you look a little emaciated!

  George Evans : [Inebriated]  Well, I was just emaciated into the Elks Saturday night.

• Anne Vincent Ives : Go on, Don Juan, tell me about yourself.

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : Well, there have been women who wanted to park their heads on this manly bosom.

  Anne Vincent Ives : At how much an hour?

• Anne Vincent Ives : [Lying on the couch]  I'm greedy of our happiness. Oh, I want to hold on to it as long as I can.

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : You know, Anne, sometimes this taking you home in the middle of the night, all the lying and pussyfooting... I...

  Anne Vincent Ives : [Playfully]  Don't say you don't like the pussyfooting! I LIKE it!

  [She throws her arms around him and giggles] 

• Anne Vincent Ives : Monsieur, champagne! Quick! Tout de Suite!

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : Lafayette, he come.

• Richard Ives Sr. : Anne, how about you, dear? You don't mind an old man taking a friendly interest in your love affairs, do you?

  Anne Vincent Ives : No, of course not, as long as the old man is you.

  Richard Ives Sr. : This may be all very well for you, Dick, but letting Anne in for this sort of thing is a bit thick, isn't it?

  Anne Vincent Ives : Oh, now don't blame Dick, Mr. Ives. He want to do right. I've been fighting him off all summer.

  Richard Ives Sr. : Don't you want to get married, Anne?

  Anne Vincent Ives : Not particularly, no.

  Richard Ives Sr. : Why? Because you want to be sure?

  Anne Vincent Ives : Oh, I am sure of our love. It's marriage I want to be sure of.

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : She has theories, Dad.

  Anne Vincent Ives : Yes, I have. Nearly every girl I know, Mr. Ives, is either unhappily married or unhappily divorced, and I've simply come to the conclusion that marriage is disastrous to love. There's so much about it that's all wrong - the awful possession that people exert over each other, the intimacy, and the duties. I don't know... but love can't stand the strain, that's all.

• Anne Vincent Ives : What's new in the world of slander?

  Helen 'Duckie' Childers : Innumerable things. Innumerable.

• Richard 'Dick' Ives II : Anne, sometimes I don't understand you.

  Anne Vincent Ives : I understand you... very well.

• Price Baines : I'm heartbroken.

  Anne Vincent Ives : A broken heart doesn't seem to go to that smile somehow.

• Anne Vincent Ives : Oh, poor ole Georgie, he's all hot and bothered, isn't he? But don't you worry, Georgie, you didn't put your foot in it. Because, Dick was weekending with a dazzling brunette. At least, I hope I dazzled. I did, didn't I, Dick?

• Anne Vincent Ives : Well, you don't give me very much choice, do you? Looks like I'll either have to pick you up or lay you down.

• Anne Vincent Ives : Better take me while you can get me.

• Anne Vincent Ives : You know, I suppose if I were really jealous of Margie, I'd drag you to the altar by the scruff of your neck.

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : You know, Anne, you're too sure of me. And that's what I don't understand. You're sure of me, and yet you're afraid I'll fall out of love if we were married, and I'd happen to see you in the morning in your... well, your shimmy or something.

  Anne Vincent Ives : Now, if that's all I were afraid of, I wouldn't be worried. Because, as a matter of fact, I'm not at all bad in my shimmy.

  Richard 'Dick' Ives II : Really? Egotist. Well, as a matter of fact, I'm not so bad in my lingerie either. Well, we have two points settled at least: I'm bright and snappy in the morning...

  Anne Vincent Ives : ...and we're both a riot in our underwear.

• Anne Vincent Ives : We used to be gay and young together. Now, we're only gay when we're around other people.

• Anne Vincent Ives : [Playfully pouting, with a pretend French accent]  Oh, you are so naughty! Why you make so free with FiFi, heh?

• Margie True : That was a stall and you know it. I came here for Dick's sake.

  Anne Vincent Ives : For Dick's sake!

• Anne Vincent Ives : Oh, Dick. What good does it do me to hold up *my* head if you hang yours?

• Anne Vincent Ives : Georgie, haven't you stopped drinking, yet?

  George Evans : I practically stopped. I've tapered down to two quarts a day now.

• Anne Vincent Ives : [Picks up phone]  Vanderbilt One Seven Hundred. Thank you. Hello, Harvard Club. Richard Ives. Mrs. Ives. Hello, Dick! Hello, darling. How are you? Oh, nothing. Just lolling around, reading. What have you been doing? Oh, I'm sorry. I hope I didn't interrupt you. No, it isn't all right. You go right back to your game. No, I didn't want anything, really, Dick.