The Impatient Years (1944)

Charles Coburn: William Smith

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• William Smith : A girl your age shouldn't be such an old maid.

  Janie Anderson : Well, is organizing your day being an old maid? For heaven's sake you have to when you are doing housekeeping, all the books tell you.

  William Smith : Maybe that's your trouble, Janie. You learned to be a wife out of a book. Yes sir, you've become an automaton. Too much schedule for a girl your age. Especially now that Andy's here. Of course, when he was away it was alright. But, now its your duty to make yourself attractive to your husband.

  Janie Anderson : Attractive?

  William Smith : Yes, attractive.

• William Smith : Now, look here - you leave me out of this. And you quit calling her my daughter and putting her in my lap. She's not my daughter - she's your wife.

  Andy Anderson : Oh, no, Mr. Smith. I left my wife in San Francisco a year and a half ago. This girl isn't my wife. She's your daughter, and Bill's mother, and Harry's landlady. But she's not my wife.