Dodsworth (1936)

Ruth Chatterton: Fran Dodsworth

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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.

• [last lines] 

  Fran Dodsworth : Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?

  Sam Dodsworth : Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.

  Fran Dodsworth : Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?

  Sam Dodsworth : Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.

  [Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds] 

  Steward : But the gentleman will miss the boat!

  Fran Dodsworth : [shouting above the boat whistle]  HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!

• Fran Dodsworth : Remember, I, I did make a home for you once, and I'll do it again, only you've got to let me have my fling now! Because you're simply rushing at old age, Sam, and I'm not ready for that yet.

• Baroness Von Obersdorf : There is the question of children, too.

  Fran Dodsworth : Children?

  Baroness Von Obersdorf : Rich or poor, Kurt should have children to carry on his name. Can you give them to him?

  Fran Dodsworth : [a bit indignant]  What makes you think I couldn't?

  Baroness Von Obersdorf : I am so much older than you are, my dear. You will forgive if I observe that you are older than Kurt.

• Sam Dodsworth : You want to divorce me then?

  Fran Dodsworth : Why should I want to divorce you? You're my husband.

  Sam Dodsworth : You couldn't very well divorce me if I weren't.

• Fran Dodsworth : Oh, you're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.

  Sam Dodsworth : Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.

• Fran Dodsworth : Look at those two women. Can't you just see them in Venice with their Baedekers? Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

  Captain Lockert : Why is it Americans are always such snobs?

• Fran Dodsworth : They all belong to the smartest crowd in Paris.

  Sam Dodsworth : Fran, do you think the real thing in Paris would hang out with a couple of hicks like us? All right, now, what else are we? I'm just an ordinary American businessman and I married the daughter of a Zenith brewer.

• Sam Dodsworth : Why won't you sit at a cafe with me?

  Fran Dodsworth : Smart people don't.

  Sam Dodsworth : I'm not smart.

  Fran Dodsworth : I am.

  Sam Dodsworth : You ought to be smart enough not to care what people think.

• Fran Dodsworth : Oh, Sam, I'm just a woolly American like you after all, and if you ever catch me trying to be anything else, will you beat me?

  Sam Dodsworth : Well, will I have to beat you very long at a time?

• Fran Dodsworth : [to Sam, as he's gotten on board the train]  Do try not to be too dreadfully lonely, will you?

  Sam Dodsworth : Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?

  [train departs] 

• Fran Dodsworth : Oh, Sammy, darling, I want all the lovely things I have a right to. In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting to the point where men begin to take a serious interest in. I won't be put on the shelf for my daughter when I can still dance longer and better than she can. After all, I've got brains and thank heaven I still got looks. Nobody takes me for over 32, 30 even. Of, Sammy, darling, I'm begging for life. No I'm not, I'm demanding it.

  Sam Dodsworth : I see how you feel. All right, I'll enjoy life now if it kills me and it probably will.

• Fran Dodsworth : You like that woman, don't you?

  Sam Dodsworth : You thought she was the most distinguished-Iooking woman on the boat.

  Fran Dodsworth : Seems a frump in Paris.

• Fran Dodsworth : Unfasten me, will you?

• Fran Dodsworth : I suppose I ought to beg you to forgive me. But, you always let bygones be bygones and this is such a happy ending to our escapades.

• Fran Dodsworth : Just think, Sammy, you're free! After 20 years of doing what was expected of us, we're free.

  Sam Dodsworth : I'm just as keen on this trip as you are. I'm rarin' to go. I've always wanted to see London and Paris.

  Fran Dodsworth : I want much more than a trip out of this, Sam. I want a new life, all over from the very beginning. A perfectly glorious, free, adventurous life. It's coming to us. We've done our job.

• Fran Dodsworth : I don't know what to do about Sam's Anglomania.

• Fran Dodsworth : What are you doing, trying to torture me?

  Arnold Iselin : I'm making love to you.

• 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.