The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)

June Allyson: Mary Hill

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• John Hill : Did you have sort of a peculiar feeling tonight when you saw me for the first time?

  Mary Hill : Very peculiar; scary.

• John Hill : I don't think people should get married unless they're in love. Do you?

  Mary Hill : Oh, certainly not.

  John Hill : I mean, it might only be an infatuation. Then where would you be?

  Mary Hill : That's right.

  John Hill : When I get married, I'm going to know everything there is to know about her.

  Mary Hill : Me too - about him, I mean. Like, how many lumps of sugar he likes in his coffee.

• Mary Hill : I wish we had a lot of time, a whole weekend maybe. And I wish we had a little apartment, with our own fireplace and our own furniture, and our own little icebox.

• John Hill : When a fella and a girl get married quickly like this, they've got to start out right, don't they?

  Mary Hill : Yes, John.

  John Hill : Well, that's what we're going to do, Mary. Tomorrow you find an apartment, and next weekend we'll have 36 whole hours together.

  Mary Hill : For the first time I understand how my mother felt about my father.

• John Hill : Hey, that's an expensive pin.

  Mary Hill : You're not jealous, are you?

  John Hill : Oh, after all, there must have been other men before me who fell in love with you.

  Mary Hill : But you're the only one I ever fell in love with.

• Mary Hill : Look, John. Isn't it wonderful? We've already got ice cubes.

  John Hill : Awww. A little larger than usual, too, don't you think?

  Mary Hill : Our first ice cubes.

• John Hill : So it looks like you can quit your job now.

  Mary Hill : Oh, you think I should?

  John Hill : Well, you don't think I'm going to have my wife working, do you? It's my job now to take care of you.

  Mary Hill : Oh, you're sweet.

• Mary Hill : Oh, John, it's only for a few hours, and you could come along with me and wash dishes.

  John Hill : You mean mess duty?

  Mary Hill : Oh, I guess you wouldn't want to do a thing like that, would you?

  John Hill : Well, if I'm going to be a civilian, I might as well be a good one.

  Mary Hill : Oh, John, you're so wonderful.

• 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.

• 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.

• John Hill : Who's Freddie?

  Mary Hill : Freddie? Oh, he's just an old friend of mine. He's 4F too.

  John Hill : How old?

  Mary Hill : Oh, ancient. Thirty, at least.

• 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.

• Mary Hill : [Opening door to leave]  And what's more, Freddie Potts, I'm going to tell your mother on you!