She Went to the Races (1945)

Ava Gardner: Hilda Spotts

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• Steve Canfield : That buys you a dinner tonight, beautiful. Only, take off those pants and put on a dress that can throw a few curves at me.

  Hilda Spotts : I think you're pretty too.

• Hilda Spotts : I'm not going to marry any man who's in love with another woman - and that's final! At least for tonight. Tomorrow? Who knows.

  Steve Canfield : Who knows anything?

• Steve Canfield : Stems, what causes a man to pass up a really great gal like you and fall in love with a shelf of books?

  Hilda Spotts : The book shelf is the one with the cool face and the warm figure. What's wrong with her?

  Steve Canfield : Oh, nothing. Nothing. But, what would a man like me be doing - married to an encyclopedia?

  Hilda Spotts : An encyclopedia with a shape like that?

• Hilda Spotts : Don't tell me this is brandy?

  Bartender Skelly : No, ma'am. Brandy sharpens, stimulates. I recommend this, Miss Spotts. Something to bring out the low, sweet tones.

  Hilda Spotts : If I wanted the low, sweet tones, I'd get a cello. Give me some brandy.

• Hilda Spotts : Can you imagine anything more colorless than marrying a man you've known all your life? Still, you gotta have someone around to do the heavy work.

• Hilda Spotts : Say please, baby.

  Steve Canfield : Please.

  Hilda Spotts : Please, baby!

  Steve Canfield : Baby!

• Hilda Spotts : Doctor, eh, Rivers, isn't it?

  Dr. Ann Wotters : Wotters, Miss Potts.

  Hilda Spotts : Wotters, of course. Spotts is mine.

• Steve Canfield : [kiss]  I can do with a lot of those, peaches.

  Hilda Spotts : Hurry back, won't you, honeykins?

• Steve Canfield : All a man has to do is to concentrate on something with the right appeal - and that's you Stems.

  Hilda Spotts : You're not so hard to take, yourself.

• Hilda Spotts : [after kissing Steve]  Mmm, I enjoyed that. Half love and half mint julep.

• Hilda Spotts : Beat it, Skelly! Am I a woman or not? Isn't possible that I might want the comfort of a man, sometimes, yours. I said, beat it, Skelly!

• Hilda Spotts : [on the ground with Steve]  We were just going to build a campfire and toast some marshmallows. Do join us, Doctor?

  Dr. Ann Wotters : I hate marshmallows.

• Hilda Spotts : This isn't something that happened over night, you know. Steve and I have known each other for years.

  Dr. Ann Wotters : It took him a long time to discover you. What did you use to open his eyes? Your horse?

• Dr. Ann Wotters : Great lover, isn't he, Miss Spotts?

  Hilda Spotts : Sorry I had to take him away from you.