Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Jane Wyman: Emmadel Jones

Quotes 

• Emmadel Jones : No, I'm not going to live Ma's life all over again, waiting on shore for a sailor who comes to land every three years. It's like being married to a salmon!

• Emmadel Jones : Wilbur, do me a favor. Ask him to sing at our wedding. He thinks he can sing, you know. And nothing would give me greater pleasure than to marry you if he has to sing to us.

• Emmadel Jones : Wilbur, if somebody pinches me and wakes me up, I'll kill 'em, so help me.

• Emmadel Jones : Oh, and you used to be such a good reporter. Now you sound like a journalist.

• Emmadel Jones : Wilbur, I, I mustn't let the children see me marrying another man.

  Wilbur Stanley : Another man? Me? Another man? Me?

  Emmadel Jones : Well, Pete's their father, and not you, and they think I'm their mother, and, well, couldn't you just send them away or something?

• Emmadel Jones : Where you off to next, Pete - Alaska, Yugoslavia?

• Emmadel Jones : Liddy, I want you to stop every darn clock in the house. Well, when the clock struck twelve, Cinderella turned back into a pumpkin, didn't she?

• Emmadel Jones : Marry Pete Garvey - are you crazy?

  Wilbur Stanley : Yes, darling, I am.

  Emmadel Jones : Oh, Wilbur.

  Ma Jones : Watch yourself, Emmy.

• Emmadel Jones : I'm sorry, Wilbur.

  Winifred Stanley : Aw, phooey, nobody's sorry.

• Peter 'Pete' Garvey : I'd rather go to prison for the rest of my life.

  Emmadel Jones : Oh, you're always thinking about yourself all the time. What about Bobby and Suzi?