The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
Hume Cronyn: Freddie Potts
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Quotes
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Headwaiter : What's going on here? What happened?
Freddie Potts : Stupid boy.
Headwaiter : Shhhh! Please, not so loud. He may hear you.
Freddie Potts : But I'm a customer.
Headwaiter : Customers we got plenty. It's busboys we need.
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Freddie Potts : How are you liking the domestic life? Is she a good housekeeper?
John Hill : Best one I've ever had.
Mary Hill : Oh, excuse me.
Freddie Potts : By the way, if this job of yours doesn't come through, perhaps you'd like to come to work for us? You could start at the bottom, of course.
John Hill : Well, I don't happen to have a feeling for pots.
Freddie Potts : Pots are amongst the oldest industries in the world. Civilization began with the pots.
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Mr. Amboy : What firm?
Freddie Potts : Potts'.
Mr. Amboy : Potts'?
Freddie Potts : Potts' Pots.
Mr. Amboy : Never heard of it.
Freddie Potts : Founded in 1808.
Mr. Amboy : Oh, an old-fashioned pot firm.
Freddie Potts : We have satisfied housewives for 137 years.
Mr. Amboy : Oh. After the war, your pots will be out of business.
Freddie Potts : Oh, really.
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Freddie Potts : Didn't it ever occur to you that I was going to ask you to marry me?
Mary Hill : But you never did.
Freddie Potts : Well, I was waiting.
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Mary Hill : Don't people ever get married suddenly during peacetime?
Freddie Potts : Not people in their right mind.
Mary Hill : Well, when you're in love I don't think you are in your right mind.
Freddie Potts : I'm always in my right mind.
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John Hill : Where did she go?
Freddie Potts : How should I know? She's your wife.
John Hill : Oh, he finally came to that conclusion, huh
[grabbing Freddie by the elbow]
John Hill : ?
Freddie Potts : Now, now, now, now, now. Let's remember that we're gentlemen.
John Hill : Since when do gentlemen send other men's wives minks coats?
Freddie Potts : Mink. Mink coat.