Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Robert Taylor: Terry Trindale
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Quotes
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Terry Trindale : Who shall I say it's from, her lawyer?
Tony Barling : Lawyer? Hardly.
Terry Trindale : Well if this were bad news...
Tony Barling : Do I look like bad news?
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Terry Trindale : Listen, pal, it's happened to me. Did you ever get knocked off your feet? Dizzy? Slap-happy? Hit between the eyes but you couldn't see straight?
Chappie Champagne : Yeah, once. She had a boyfriend - a prizefighter. Hey, is this a dame?
Terry Trindale : Dame, Chappie? No, no. She's the most wonderful, the loveliest. I don't know, she's something out of this world! She's way up there, Chappie, like a, like a new moon in the sky.
Chappie Champagne : Like a cloud, floating by.
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Consuelo Croyden : One thing is obvious, you're mad!
Terry Trindale : Oh, well, thank you.
Consuelo Croyden : Impertinent. Talkative. Fresh. Are you honest? I think you are.
Terry Trindale : So do I.
Consuelo Croyden : That's good.
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Consuelo Croyden : How much is a secretary paid?
Terry Trindale : Well, if she's good looking...
Consuelo Croyden : Oh, stop it! You owe me thirty-two hundred dollars. I'm going to employ you as my secretary for ten weeks at three hundred a week. Now, the debt will be cancelled.
Terry Trindale : I can't type.
Consuelo Croyden : You won't have to.
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Consuelo Croyden : Do you go to the theater?
Terry Trindale : Oh, the theater's nice... anything for a good time.
Consuelo Croyden : On the stage, the butler brings in a chicken. At least it looks like a chicken, it pretends to be a chicken, but, it isn't a chicken. It's made of cardboard.
Terry Trindale : What of it?
Consuelo Croyden : You shall be my cardboard lover.
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Terry Trindale : Oh, company?
Consuelo Croyden : Oh, yes, Terry, darling. This is Tony Darling, Tony Barling!
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Terry Trindale : I'm not her love, I'm her fate.
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Consuelo Croyden : If ever again I treat you badly...
Terry Trindale : I know, I beat you.
Consuelo Croyden : Yes!
[Kiss]
