Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Barbara Stanwyck: Elizabeth Lane
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Quotes
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Elizabeth Lane : [Getting fed up with Mr. Yardley, who won't let her speak] Suppose you listen to me for a change?... I said listen to me! I'm tired of being pushed around. Tired of being told what to do. Tired of writing your god-darned articles. Tired of dancing to everybody else's tune. Tired of being told whom to marry. In short... I'm tired!
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Elizabeth Lane : John, when you're kissing me, don't talk about plumbing.
John Sloan : What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?
Elizabeth Lane : Well, do you have to talk?
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Elizabeth Lane : Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me...
Jefferson Jones : I deceived you?
Elizabeth Lane : Yes! You're engaged!
Jefferson Jones : You're married!
Elizabeth Lane : That has nothing to do with it!
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Felix Bassenak : That coat! What's the meaning?
Elizabeth Lane : Don't worry, I'm paying for it myself. It'll take my next six months' salary. Nice, isn't it?
Felix Bassenak : Six months' work for a coat?
Elizabeth Lane : All my life I promised myself a mink coat. You know, Felix, it's very important to keep promises, especially to yourself.
Felix Bassenak : Do you have to promise so expensively?
Elizabeth Lane : But I need it!
Felix Bassenak : You need it? Nobody needs a mink coat but a mink.
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Jefferson Jones : [telling Liz that he isn't engaged anymore] She married my shipmate.
Elizabeth Lane : She did!
Jefferson Jones : I'm as free as a bird!
Elizabeth Lane : Oh, that's what you think.
[she kisses him]
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Elizabeth Lane : Maybe scarlet fever. It's a better color for Christmas.
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Elizabeth Lane : Everytime I'd opened my mouth he talked. I felt like Charlie McCarthy.
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Elizabeth Lane : The things a girl will do for a mink coat.
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Elizabeth Lane : [Dudley has told her she has to go to see Yardley to arrange her Christmas with the sailor] Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box!
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Alexander Yardley : Why, that's strange. He looks different this morning.
Elizabeth Lane : Wouldn't you look different if you'd swallowed a watch?
Alexander Yardley : But he's a blonde, has teeth, and he talks.
Elizabeth Lane : Mr. Yardley, this is no time to take inventory!
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Elizabeth Lane : [Jefferson Jones arrives in the middle of Liz and John's wedding] Oh no, John! It's the sailor! He's two hours early! What'll I do!
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Dudley Beecham : Liz, don't waste time with him. You have to decide what you're going to say to the old man.
John Sloan : What old man?
Elizabeth Lane : Oh, it's Yardley. He's sending me a sailor for Christmas.
John Sloan : Oh, how nice... A sailor? Really, Elizabeth!
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Alexander Yardley : Good morning. Merry Christmas. I hope I'm in time to see you flip the flapjacks.
Elizabeth Lane : I'm not in the flipping mood this morning Mr. Yardley.
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Elizabeth Lane : Oh, Felix, this is awful. We have a new baby - it's a boy.
Felix Bassenak : It's life. Sometimes you get girls, sometimes boys.