Lucky Partners (1940)

Ronald Colman: David Grant

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• Jean Newton : Hello! I'd like to ask you a proposition

  David Grant : Good!

  Jean Newton : [Offended that he has misinterpreted]  A BUSINESS proposition!

• Bride : [in elevator at Niagara Falls hotel]  You just get here honey?

  Jean Newton : Yes.

  Bride : We've been here a week.

  David Grant : How are the falls?

  Bridegroom : Uh, we're seeing them tomorrow.

• Jean Newton : You don't believe in money. You don't believe in marriage.

  David Grant : That institution, like the Colosseum in Rome, is still standing; but, it certainly shows the ravages of time. Doesn't it?

• [first lines] 

  David Grant : [to Jean, a stranger, as he passes her on the street]  Good luck!

• David Grant : You want to win money in order to marry a man who after a brief ceremony will take you to Poughkeepsie and apparently keep her there. Can you give me any good reason for being a party to any scheme as discreditable as that? And what sort of a man these days would demand a dowry? Is he a Frenchman?

  Jean Newton : Certainly not! And the money isn't his idea, it's mine. I want the money myself.

  David Grant : And what for?

  Jean Newton : Because I want to be independent! And because I always made my own living. And because if I should ever want to buy anything, I should hate to ask somebody else for the money.

  David Grant : And because it would be a precaution in the event of things not going very well?

  Jean Newton : Yes!

• David Grant : What about your honeymoon?

  Jean Newton : Well, that will have to come later.

  David Grant : Oh, don't you believe it.

  Jean Newton : And why not?

  David Grant : Because a honeymoon isn't something you can put away in cold storage like a mink coat. It just isn't the same moment - and it certainly isn't the same honeymoon.

• Freddie Harper : Let me tell it, pal.

  David Grant : You tell it, pal.

• David Grant : Has he a job?

  Jean Newton : Certainly. He's an engineer.

  David Grant : Civil? Military? Mining?

  Jean Newton : Insurance.

  David Grant : Well, this is the age of new professions.

• Jean Newton : What makes you think I'd go with you anyway?

  David Grant : Something that almost escaped me, until I looked a little closer.

  Jean Newton : What?

  David Grant : That adventurous little twinkle in your right eye.

  Jean Newton : You're crazy. You are crazy! I am a perfectly conventional, proper person. I'm even - straight-laced!

  David Grant : But, you're not dull.

  Jean Newton : I am. I am! I could be the dullest person you ever met!

  David Grant : My dear, Miss Newton, will you allow me to take the risk? Good night.

• Jean Newton : I wish I could understand you. You're either crazy or you're running away from something.

  David Grant : Well, maybe.

  Jean Newton : What?

  David Grant : I don't know. Perhaps the same things you're headed for: security and respectability. I had them once.

• David Grant : This is an adventure. Let's forget my past and your future and enjoy the poetic present.

• Jean Newton : You need it. You know you do.

  David Grant : Oh, no. I only needed it for one thing.

  Jean Newton : What?

  David Grant : Well, the - the - again the experiment! An artistic experiment. That, as you say, people would confuse with an improper suggestion.

• Aunt Lucy : [to Jean about David]  Don't be frightened of him dear. He won't bite you.

  David Grant : Oh, I don't know.

• David Grant : You dazzle me.

  Jean Newton : I dazzle myself.

• David Grant : [on the phone]  Can you hear the music?

  Jean Newton : Yes.

  David Grant : Lovely, isn't it?

  Jean Newton : Yes.

  David Grant : Soft.

  Jean Newton : And dreamy.

  David Grant : Like a lullaby.

  Jean Newton : Yes, it's lovely.

  David Grant : Is the moon shinning in through your window?

  Jean Newton : Yes.

  David Grant : I can just see you. A shaft of pale blue light falling across your bed - and your face like a soft shadow on your pillow.

  Jean Newton : Can you really see me?

  David Grant : Of course I can.

• David Grant : Will you tell her that my attorney is here and I'd like him to represent her.

  Aunt Lucy : Well, she says she hasn't done anything she can't explain herself. So, she's going to be her own counsel. Portia, you know, and all that sort of thing.

• David Grant : Did my client leave you a letter, before he left you at Niagara Falls?

  Jean Newton : You know perfectly well you did. Eh, he did. You did!

• Judge : On that trip you made love to her.

  David Grant : Once, your Honor.

  Judge : I don't care how often. Answer my question.

  David Grant : Yes, your Honor.

• David Grant : When did you fall in love with Miss Newton, Mr. Somerset?

  Jean Newton : Your Honor, I object!

  David Grant : I think it must have been when she called a sweepstake ticket a stoopsnake swicket.

• David Grant : Mr. Somerset, do you think, that as a man with your record, you had any right to make love to her?

• Jean Newton : What's the matter with your mode of life?

  David Grant : Well, nothing from my point of view, but, a great deal form everyone else's. For example, it has been described as: beachcombing.