Barbara Stanwyck: Martha Ivers
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Quotes
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Martha Ivers : [in a catty tone, after letting herself in to the room unannounced where Toni is showing off a new outfit to Sam] The sun suit looks very well on her, Sam, she's got just the figure for it. She's a very pretty girl.
Toni Marachek : [in retort] I give another show at 8 o'clock.
Martha Ivers : In your room or here?
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Martha Ivers : You've killed, it says so in your record.
Sam Masterson : I've never murdered.
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Martha Ivers : A sure thing is never a gamble.
Sam Masterson : No? What odds you give that that's a fact?
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Sam Masterson : [recounting the time he was away from Iverstown] Well, that brings us up to my 21st year, when I became a man... officially.
Martha Ivers : How did it feel to become a man, officially?
Sam Masterson : I'd felt I'd been there before.
Sam Masterson : How did you feel about becoming a woman, officially?
Martha Ivers : I felt I'd been there, too.
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Sam Masterson : [seeing she has married Walter] Aren't you glad now you missed that circus train?
Martha Ivers : I don't know.
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Martha Ivers : It would have been so different if you hadn't run away. It would have been you instead of Walter. Or if you had stopped me. When I lifted the cane, why didn't you stop me? You know how much I hated her! Why didn't you stop me?
Sam Masterson : I wasn't there, Martha.
Martha Ivers : And then I stood there after it was over...
[realizes]
Martha Ivers : You... you weren't there?
Sam Masterson : No, Martha. I wasn't there. I left when your aunt came into the hallway. I didn't want to stick around. I was in enough trouble as it was. I never saw what happened. I never knew until tonight about your aunt or that man. The one they hung. The man that you and Walter killed.
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Martha Ivers : What do you think he wants?
Walter O'Neil : What he can get. He's a gambler, a sharpshooter, an angle boy. They come through my office by the hundreds. Couldn't you see blackmail in his eyes?
