Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Barbara Stanwyck: Elizabeth Lane

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• Elizabeth Lane : [Getting fed up with Mr. Yardley, who won't let her speak]  Suppose you listen to me for a change?... I said listen to me! I'm tired of being pushed around. Tired of being told what to do. Tired of writing your god-darned articles. Tired of dancing to everybody else's tune. Tired of being told whom to marry. In short... I'm tired!

• Elizabeth Lane : John, when you're kissing me, don't talk about plumbing.

  John Sloan : What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?

  Elizabeth Lane : Well, do you have to talk?

• Elizabeth Lane : Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me...

  Jefferson Jones : I deceived you?

  Elizabeth Lane : Yes! You're engaged!

  Jefferson Jones : You're married!

  Elizabeth Lane : That has nothing to do with it!

• Felix Bassenak : That coat! What's the meaning?

  Elizabeth Lane : Don't worry, I'm paying for it myself. It'll take my next six months' salary. Nice, isn't it?

  Felix Bassenak : Six months' work for a coat?

  Elizabeth Lane : All my life I promised myself a mink coat. You know, Felix, it's very important to keep promises, especially to yourself.

  Felix Bassenak : Do you have to promise so expensively?

  Elizabeth Lane : But I need it!

  Felix Bassenak : You need it? Nobody needs a mink coat but a mink.

• Jefferson Jones : [telling Liz that he isn't engaged anymore]  She married my shipmate.

  Elizabeth Lane : She did!

  Jefferson Jones : I'm as free as a bird!

  Elizabeth Lane : Oh, that's what you think.

  [she kisses him] 

• Elizabeth Lane : Maybe scarlet fever. It's a better color for Christmas.

• Elizabeth Lane : Everytime I'd opened my mouth he talked. I felt like Charlie McCarthy.

• Elizabeth Lane : The things a girl will do for a mink coat.

• Elizabeth Lane : [Dudley has told her she has to go to see Yardley to arrange her Christmas with the sailor]  Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box!

• Alexander Yardley : Why, that's strange. He looks different this morning.

  Elizabeth Lane : Wouldn't you look different if you'd swallowed a watch?

  Alexander Yardley : But he's a blonde, has teeth, and he talks.

  Elizabeth Lane : Mr. Yardley, this is no time to take inventory!

• Elizabeth Lane : [Jefferson Jones arrives in the middle of Liz and John's wedding]  Oh no, John! It's the sailor! He's two hours early! What'll I do!

• Dudley Beecham : Liz, don't waste time with him. You have to decide what you're going to say to the old man.

  John Sloan : What old man?

  Elizabeth Lane : Oh, it's Yardley. He's sending me a sailor for Christmas.

  John Sloan : Oh, how nice... A sailor? Really, Elizabeth!

• Alexander Yardley : Good morning. Merry Christmas. I hope I'm in time to see you flip the flapjacks.

  Elizabeth Lane : I'm not in the flipping mood this morning Mr. Yardley.

• Elizabeth Lane : Oh, Felix, this is awful. We have a new baby - it's a boy.

  Felix Bassenak : It's life. Sometimes you get girls, sometimes boys.