Blithe Spirit (1945)
Kay Hammond: Elvira Condomine
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Quotes
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Charles Condomine : Try to see my point of view, dear. I've been married to Ruth for five years and you've been dead for seven.
Elvira Condomine : Not dead, Charles. Passed over. Its considered very vulgar to say dead where I come from.
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Ruth Condomine : You called us back and you've done nothing but try to get rid of us ever since we came. Hasn't he, Elvira?
Elvira Condomine : He certainly has.
Ruth Condomine : Now, owing to your idiotic inefficiency, we find ourselves in this mortifying position. We're neither fish, flesh fowl, nor - whatever it is.
Charles Condomine , Elvira Condomine : Good red herring.
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Elvira Condomine : Well, why shouldn't I have fun. I died young, didn't I?
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Charles Condomine : A woman in Cynthia Chavitz's position. would hardly wear false pearls.
Elvira Condomine : Well, they were practically all she was wearing.
Charles Condomine : As I'm pained to observe that seven years in the echoing vaults of eternity have in no way pared your native vulgarity.
Elvira Condomine : That was the remark of a pompous ass.
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Ruth Condomine : [to Charles] Now I want you to come upstairs with me and go to bed.
Elvira Condomine : The way that woman harps on bed.
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Elvira Condomine : Get me to bed, Charles. Then we can talk in peace.
Charles Condomine : A thoroughly immoral suggestion. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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Charles Condomine : Poor Ruth.
Elvira Condomine : Nuts to Ruth.
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Charles Condomine : Are you a - ghost?
Elvira Condomine : I suppose I must be. Its all very confusing.
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Elvira Condomine : That was one of the most enjoyable ha-has I've ever spent.
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Charles Condomine : Are you to be here indefinitely?
Elvira Condomine : I'm afraid I don't know that either. Why? Would you hate it so much if I was?
Charles Condomine : Well, you must admit, it'd be embarrassing.
Elvira Condomine : I don't see why, really. Its all a question of adjusting one's self.
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Elvira Condomine : Well, I really am a little hurt. You call me back and at a great inconvenience I came - and you've been thoroughly churlish ever since I arrived.
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Elvira Condomine : Oh, I want to cry. But, I don't think I'm able to.
Charles Condomine : Well, what would you want to cry for?
Elvira Condomine : Well, at seeing you again and you being so irascible like you always used to be.
Charles Condomine : Well, I don't mean to be irascible, Elvira.
Elvira Condomine : Darling, I don't mind. really. I never did.
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Charles Condomine : Was I ever unkind to you when you were alive?
Elvira Condomine : Often.
Charles Condomine : Oh, how can you? I'm sure you're exaggerating.
Elvira Condomine : Not at all. You were an absolute pig that time we went to Cornwall and stayed in that awful hotel. You hit me with a billiard cue.
Charles Condomine : Only very, very gently.
Elvira Condomine : I loved you very much.
Charles Condomine : I loved you too.
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Charles Condomine : Promise you'll do what I ask.
Elvira Condomine : Well, that depends on what it is.
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Charles Condomine : This whole business is very difficult for Ruth. We must be fair.
Elvira Condomine : Well, she should learn to be more adaptable.
Charles Condomine : She probably will in time.
Elvira Condomine : I doubt it, Charles. She's got a hard mouth. Its her mouth that gives her away.
Charles Condomine : Her mouth's got nothing to do with it. I resent you discussing Ruth as though she were a horse.
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Elvira Condomine : I was a eager young bride, Charles. I wanted glamour and music and romance. What I got was potted palms, seven hours of every day on a damp golf course, and a three-piece orchestra playing "Merry England".
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Charles Condomine : Captain Brayscone? I might have known it. What a fool I was. What a blind fool. Did he make love to you?
Elvira Condomine : Of course.
Charles Condomine : Oh, Elvira.
Elvira Condomine : Only very discretely. He was in the calvary, you know.
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Elvira Condomine : This is going to be a flop. I can tell you that, here and now.
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Ruth Condomine : This is definitely one of the most frustrating nights I've ever spent.
Elvira Condomine : The reply to that is pretty obvious.
Ruth Condomine : I'm sure I don't know what you mean.