The Moon's Our Home (1936)
Margaret Sullavan: Cherry Chester, Sarah Brown
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Quotes
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[Cherry apologizes for almost injuring Mrs. Medford]
Cherry Chester : If I ever did, I'd blow my brains out!
Mrs. Boyce Medford : I know. And then I'd have to tidy up afterward.
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Mrs. Boyce Medford : Go and put on something that'll make you look sweet and...
Cherry Chester : Oh, but I wanna be mysterious. I wanna be alone.
Mrs. Boyce Medford : Well, don't try that -- you're not Swedish.
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Anthony Amberton : [after jumping into Cherry's carriage to escape a horde of female autograph hounds] Don't you really know who I am?
Cherry Chester : No. Just because you know who I am doesn't mean that I know who you are.
Anthony Amberton : Well, I haven't any idea who you are.
Cherry Chester : You mean you've never seen me before?
Anthony Amberton : No. As a matter of fact, I'm sorry I haven't. You're rather attractive in an elementary sort of way.
Cherry Chester : Can't you manage to be a little less personal?
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Cherry Chester : [Reading the promos on his book] Mr. Amberton has conquered the highest peaks known to travelers. Oh, blah! Bilge, absolute bilge!
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Mrs. Boyce Medford : Now, go and get dressed, and stop acting like an actress.
Cherry Chester : I am an actress. First, an actress; then, a woman. My art comes before anything else.
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Anthony Amberton : How do you like New York?
Cherry Chester : I loathe it. I loathe all cities.
Anthony Amberton : Fine. That's two of us.
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Cherry Chester : [Looking through Boyce's book] Anthony Amberton - sounds like a hero in a costume picture. Great adventurer? Probably afraid to cross the street. Lots of hardships - I'll bet he's lost without his hot water bottle. Ah, Mr. Amberton and his camel. Oh, I see - he's the one with the hat on.
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Cherry Chester : [Grabbing the book that Boyce is reading and looking at the title and author, "Astride the Himalaya," by Anthony Amberton] You too, Brutus!
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Cherry Chester : But I don't want to be interviewed. I told you before - I won't be interviewed
[Going into a tantrum]
Cherry Chester : I won't! I won't! I won't!
Mrs. Boyce Medford : My absolute angel?
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Cherry Chester : There's only one way I can ever fall in love. Not as Cherry Chester the actress, but as a plain, ordinary girl. I could only fall in love with a man I don't know - and he didn't know me.
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Cherry Chester : From now on I'm going to be an angel. I promise you - an absolute angel.
Mrs. Boyce Medford : That's my good girl.
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Cherry Chester : [Looking in the mirror] I'm slipping. Yes, sir, I'm slipping. Boyce, I'm through.
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Lem : I didn't quite catch your name.
Cherry Chester : I didn't throw it. My name is Brown.
Lem : How's that?
Cherry Chester : [Loudly in his ear] I say my name is Brown.
Lem : Oh, Brown. His name is Smith. Heh, heh, heh.
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Anthony Amberton : [Looking at his wrist] Somebody stole my watch.
Cherry Chester : It's 27 minutes past three.
Anthony Amberton : I'm late. I have to go.
[He gets out of the carriage as it moves on, and leave the money she had given him thinking he was a poor thief out of work, and leaves a card of the lodgings he will be at in the mountains of New Hampshire]
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Cherry Chester : If only I could be alone on a mountain top, with the sunshine, with the stars.
Anthony Amberton : Listen to me. There's a destiny in this. I've been sent to save you. You've got to come with me.
Cherry Chester : Come with...
Anthony Amberton : No, don't speak. I'm going away. Far away from cites and people, and you've got to come with me.
Cherry Chester : I don't...
Anthony Amberton : You don't have to know my name. I don't have to know your name. All that matters is us - two free people with a world behind 'em.
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Mrs. Boyce Medford : Horace Van Steedan is the monument of respectability.
Cherry Chester : So is Grant's Tomb, but who wants to marry it?
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Cherry Chester : [about to board the family horse carriage] Ah, the Yankee Clipper looks great.
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Cherry Chester : I see you still don't trust automobiles.
Brakeman : And we do for a little effectiveness.
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Mrs. Boyce Medford : Yes, Prince Ali and his 40 "we's." .. He's in New York. He telephoned you 16 times this afternoon.
Cherry Chester : Only 16? I must be losing my grip.
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Mitty Simpson : This is the rose room. We call it that on account of the roses.
Cherry Chester : That's a very good reason.
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Anthony Amberton : All my life I've hated laws, conventions, regulations, marriage.
Cherry Chester : Well, what's the matter with marriage?
Anthony Amberton : It's so unimportant.
Cherry Chester : You're mother and father didn't think so. Or, did they?
Anthony Amberton : Well, theirs was a different generation.
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Cherry Chester : [as Horace approaches her on the balcony] No!
Horace Van Steedan : No what?
Cherry Chester : No, I won't.
Horace Van Steedan : But I haven't asked you to do anything.
Cherry Chester : You're going to ask me to marry you. I won't.
Horace Van Steedan : Sarah, you're psychically magnificent.
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Cherry Chester : Boyce, have you ever seen me drunk?
Mrs. Boyce Medford : No, dear. Only disorderly.
Cherry Chester : Well, I'm starting in now.
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Cherry Chester : Wait! Wait a minute. Have I told you about my temper?
Anthony Amberton : I've had complaints about mine.
Cherry Chester : We'll fight every day.
Anthony Amberton : We'll make up every night.
Cherry Chester : I'll leave you over and over again.
Anthony Amberton : I'll always find you.
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Cherry Chester : [In a straitjacket in the ambulance with Anthony] I'm tired of having my own arms around me.
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Anthony Amberton : I don't say that marriage is perfect, but it's the only solution for the average woman.
Cherry Chester : But I'm not an average woman. Would you have fallen in love with an average woman?
Anthony Amberton : Certainly not! Would you have fallen in love with an average man?
Cherry Chester : Certainly not! What makes you think I've fallen in love?
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Anthony Amberton : If you call making faces on the screen a career.
Cherry Chester : What?
Anthony Amberton : You certainly can't call it acting.
Cherry Chester : I suppose you call that tripe you turn out writing?
Anthony Amberton : Ah ha! So you've read my book?
Cherry Chester : I started one.
Anthony Amberton : What one?
Cherry Chester : That masterpiece where you look down all six of the pyramids.
Anthony Amberton : There are nine pyramids.
Cherry Chester : Six!
Anthony Amberton : Nine!
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Cherry Chester : Didn't you ever want to find me again?
Anthony Amberton : Did you want to be found?
Cherry Chester : Here I am.
Anthony Amberton : Here you are. And if you think you'll ever get away again
Cherry Chester : You think I ever want to get away again?
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Anthony Amberton : All I can say is, you're a stubborn, disagreeable little brat.
Cherry Chester : And all I can say is you're a contemptable, nasty, ill-tempered conceited monster.
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Anthony Amberton , Cherry Chester : I married Sarah Brown, and now I find I'm the husband of Cherry Chester too. So what?
Cherry Chester : I married John Smith and I find I'm the wife of Anthony Amberton besides. So what?
Anthony Amberton : Darling, we're bigamists, do you mind?
Cherry Chester : I love it.
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Anthony Amberton : If you can't get up, marry me. Is it a bet?
Cherry Chester : It's a bet.
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Anthony Amberton : Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Cherry Chester : Possibly. I'm the girl you married once.
Anthony Amberton : I knew it. I never forget a face.
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Anthony Amberton : Oh well, that's all taken care of.
Cherry Chester : How's that?
Anthony Amberton : Cause you're not going to marry him -- you're going to marry me.
Cherry Chester : Eh, heh, are you proposing to me?
Anthony Amberton : Of course I am, what'd you think I was doing?
Cherry Chester : Well, thank you very much, but I can't.
Anthony Amberton : Why not?
Cherry Chester : Oh, I don't believe in marriage. The minute marriage comes in the door, love flies out the window.
Anthony Amberton : Where did you get those half-baked ideas?
