Too Many Husbands (1940)

Jean Arthur: Vicky Lowndes

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Quotes 

• Vicky Lowndes : I like my husbands to love me, to fight for me.

  George : Vicky!

  Vicky Lowndes : Is that wrong?

  George : I don't know. It sounds wrong when you use the plural.

• Gertrude Houlihan : Mrs. Lowndes, I'm getting married.

  Vicky Lowndes : Well, congratulations.

  Gertrude Houlihan : For what?

• Vicky Lowndes : You don't think I'm crazy do you, Dad?

  George : No.

  Vicky Lowndes : These things always happen when I eat veal.

• Vicky Lowndes : You can't tell a woman to meet her dead husband at eight o'clock! You just can't! You, you mean, he's a - live?

• Vicky Lowndes : I don't know whether I'm asleep or out of my mind or what?

• Vicky Lowndes : What am I going to do? I have two husbands!

• Vicky Lowndes : Oh! Oh! Get some brandy!

• Vicky Lowndes : Here I am, a helpless woman!

• Vicky Lowndes : What are you two worried about? I'm the one with the two husbands!

• Bill Cardew : I'm out of your life. Drowned. Forgotten. You found a new love. That makes me an unwanted corpse at a party. I'll go.

  Vicky Lowndes : No, no dear. We don't feel that way at all. Do we, Henry?

  Henry Lowndes : I think he described himself perfectly!

• Vicky Lowndes : Buck up, Bill! - I'll be waiting

  [Playfully walks away and stretches herself out on the stairway banister] 

  Vicky Lowndes : In my room.

• Vicky Lowndes : Since you men haven't reached a decision, the only proper thing for me to do is to put both my husbands in the guest room!

• Vicky Lowndes : Where did you go?

  Henry Lowndes : Oh, places

  Bill Cardew : Dumps, joints.

  Vicky Lowndes : I see. The condemned men had a hardy drunk!

• Gertrude Houlihan : Do you know what I did when you married Bill, I mean, Mr. Cardew? I kidded myself into thinking that I had married him. That I was you.

  Vicky Lowndes : Well, there's no harm in that.

  Gertrude Houlihan : Thank you.

  [Dreamily stares off into space] 

  Vicky Lowndes : What are you thinking about?

  Gertrude Houlihan : Our honeymoon.

  [Smiles] 

• Vicky Lowndes : If you loved me at all, you never would have left here, even if I did tell you to get out.

• Henry Lowndes : What are you whispering?

  Vicky Lowndes : I wasn't whispering.

  Bill Cardew : I was showing her where a barracuda bit me.

• Vicky Lowndes : [In the guest bedroom where both men are to sleep this night]  I just thought I'd see if you were all right.

  Bill Cardew : I don't feel very good.

  Vicky Lowndes : No? What's the matter?

  Bill Cardew : Fever, I guess. Deadly tropical fever.

  Vicky Lowndes : Your forehead isn't hot.

  Bill Cardew : Don't take your hand away.

  Vicky Lowndes : Get some aspirin from the cabinet, will you, Henry?

  Henry Lowndes : Let him get his own aspirin. I don't feel any too well myself.

  Vicky Lowndes : Really, dear?

  Henry Lowndes : No.

  Vicky Lowndes : Stick out your tongue.

  Henry Lowndes : What's my tongue got to do with it? You held his head.

  Vicky Lowndes : Let me see your tongue. You know your stomach always goes bad first.

  Bill Cardew : [Looks at Henry sticking out his tongue]  I'd be sick if I had that in my mouth.

  Vicky Lowndes : You're all right. Did you brush your teeth?

  Henry Lowndes : Ask him if he brushed his.

  Bill Cardew : Can I help it if somebody gave my toothbrush to a tramp?

  Henry Lowndes : The tramp wouldn't take it.