Dodsworth (1936)

Mary Astor: Edith Cortright

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• Edith Cortright : I hadn't realized it was your birthday.

  Fran Dodsworth : No? I wish I hadn't. No woman enjoys getting to be 35.

  Edith Cortright : When you're my age, you'll look back on 35 as a most agreeable time of life, Mrs. Dodsworth.

  Fran Dodsworth : I hope I look as young as you do - when I'm your age.

  Edith Cortright : You're almost *sure* to, my dear.

• Edith Cortright : Would you like to enjoy life for a while?

  Sam Dodsworth : Show me how.

• Edith Cortright : I suppose people travel to get away from themselves.

• Edith Cortright : I used to be a British subject by marriage. I don't know that one can be a British subject by divorce. I expect I'm just a woman who lives in Italy.

  Sam Dodsworth : Oh, do people live in Italy?

  Edith Cortright : There are countless Italians.

  Sam Dodsworth : Oh, no, no, I mean, people like you.

  Edith Cortright : I live in Italy by the thousands, Mr. Dodsworth.

  Sam Dodsworth : Why?

  Edith Cortright : It's cheap!

• Edith Cortright : [to Sam]  You've shrivelled. I've seen you shrivel the same way every letter you've got from her.

• Edith Cortright : Break away from your hotel. Forget about Vienna. Move out here to me.

  Sam Dodsworth : Out to you?

  Edith Cortright : Yes. I can't make you as comfortable as your hotel does. When you want a bath, you'll have to choose between the tin tub and the Mediterranean. But, if you like swimming and fishing and a willing listener...

  Sam Dodsworth : That's very kind of you, Mrs. Cortright, and mighty friendly; but, I don't see how I could?

  Edith Cortright : Why not?

  Sam Dodsworth : What'd your neighbors think?

  Edith Cortright : Being Italians, they think a great deal.

  Sam Dodsworth : Exactly.

  Edith Cortright : Oh! But, that doesn't mean it would have to be so! Or, that I'd have it so even if you wanted it so.

• Sam Dodsworth : Setting up that motor's the first real fun I've had since I quit business, and it's got me raring to go all over again for the first time.

  Edith Cortright : To go?

  Sam Dodsworth : You bet!

  Edith Cortright : Away from here?

  Sam Dodsworth : Any place where I can get back in harness. Get in on something new, the way they did with automobiles when they began 30 years ago. Thought I might try my hand at aviation. The idea of a Moscow to Seattle airline kinda' strikes me.

  Edith Cortright : [slightly incredulous]  Moscow to Seattle?

  Sam Dodsworth : Yeah, buy in on a transcontinental connection. Then, with these transcontinental flights coming on so well, say, I might be the first man with his first round-the-world system. The Soviet people seem agreeable.

• Edith Cortright : Drifting isn't nearly so pleasant as it looks.

  Sam Dodsworth : If you don't like it, why don't you give it up?

  Edith Cortright : One drifts for lack of a reason to do anything else.

  Sam Dodsworth : Well, what do you want?

  Edith Cortright : What do you suppose any Ione woman wants?

• Edith Cortright : You're busy...

  Sam Dodsworth : I've got nothing to do but look at ruined temples. They'll keep. They've kept this long.

• Edith Cortright : Let's sit down, if you've got a moment.

  Sam Dodsworth : Time is something I have nothing else but.

• Edith Cortright : We were just hopping off - where?

  Sam Dodsworth : Siberia. Pick out landing fields. No ramifications. A line from Irkutsk to Tashkent and Samarkand. Swell name, Samarkand. Say, if those Soviet boys will let me...

• Fran Dodsworth : I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age.

  Edith Cortright : You're almost sure to, my dear.