The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

Loretta Young: June Cameron

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• June Cameron : Look, Johnny. I don't know anything about marriage.

  John R. Pierce : Oh, what's that got to do with it? Dante didn't have to go to hell to write his "Inferno."

• June Cameron : [to Timothy]  Now, listen to me, my microscopic friend, you might be able to give orders to thay barnacle you're engaged to, but the last time a man tries it on me, I was six, and he was seven, and for one solid hour I beat him over the head with my all-day sucker!

• June Cameron : Don't you yell at me, you microbe hunter.

• June Cameron : [after Tim delivers a baby in a rural farmhouse]  Another president?

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : No. I'm afraid it's another career woman. I've never seen so much kicking and screaming in my life.

  June Cameron : She'll get over it.

• Dr. Lionel Sterling : Have you two had a quarrel?

  June Cameron : Yes. Yes, he hit me.

  Dr. Lionel Sterling : You didn't?

  June Cameron : Yes, he did.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : Well, I only pushed her.

  Dr. Lionel Sterling : You only pushed her? Tim, I shouldn't have to remind you that this is not the Neolithic age.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : Well, how would you like it if someone said that your father was a pompous, opinionated old windbag?

  June Cameron : I didn't say that.

  Dr. Lionel Sterling : I would be honest enough to admit that the person was absolutely right.

  June Cameron : Pop, he's lying. I never said that.

  Dr. Lionel Sterling : I don't care who said it, my dear, it's true. I talk too much. Your mother always said that.

• June Cameron : The modern woman can match the modern man fiber for fiber and have a rib left over.

• Dr. Timothy Sterling : [holding a bottle of liquor]  Ten years old.

  June Cameron : That's more than I can say for you.

• John R. Pierce : You know, he's stubborn.

  June Cameron : That's an understatement.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : [from the bedroom]  Where are my pants!

• June Cameron : Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That man in there really isn't my husband. He's a... he's a prowler!

  Reporter : Lady, I don't care what your husband does for a living.

• June Cameron : You know, you and that little bundle of boredom are going to make a charming couple. And when people don't ask you out, don't blame it all on her.

• June Cameron : You know, marriage is no longer the answer to a maiden's prayer. Oh, slaving over a hot stove all day is all right for some of the more backward members of our sex, but there's a new kind of woman coming into the fore... the kind who refuse to subordinate her personality to that of the egotistical male.

• Dr. Timothy Sterling : [Referring to June's whiskey]  Well, ten years old.

  June Cameron : More than I can say for you!

• June Cameron : [to Timothy]  Now, in spite of what you and little Chester here may think, the modern woman can match you men fiber for fiber and have a rib left over.

• June Cameron : Will you please relax, my meddling medico.

• June Cameron : Well, if that's the way you feel about it, my pathological playmate.

• June Cameron : This happens to be one of those tender moments that you wouldn't understand.

• Dr. Timothy Sterling : You shouldn't read trash like that.

  June Cameron : I didn't read it. I wrote it.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : Oh, I'm sorry.

• June Cameron : You know, Johnny and I were discussing only yesterday how quietly repulsive you are.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : Johnny loves everything about you - your books, your profits, your apartment, your liquor, your cigarettes.

• June Cameron : You know, a discussion on the mayelin sheath of the cerebrospinal nerve fiber is good any time.

  Dr. Timothy Sterling : Where did you pick that up?

  June Cameron : Oh, I've been looking through some of our wedding presents.