Gene Tierney credited as playing...
Laura Hunt
- Shelby Carpenter: I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?
- Laura Hunt: Yes.
- Shelby Carpenter: No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?
- Laura Hunt: Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements!
- Shelby Carpenter: And two months from now? And the month after that?
- Laura Hunt: What about next year?
- Shelby Carpenter: Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?
- Laura Hunt: What about dancing?
- Shelby Carpenter: What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?
- Ann Treadwell: Are you as interested in McPherson as he is in you?
- Laura Hunt: But Ann, I only met him last night.
- Ann Treadwell: That's more than long enough sometimes. Anyway, he's better for you than Shelby. Anybody is. Shelby's better for me.
- Laura Hunt: Why?
- Ann Treadwell: 'Cause I can afford him and understand him. He's no good, but he's what I want. I'm not a nice person, Laura. Neither is he. He knows I know he's just what he is. He also knows that I don't care. We belong together because we're both weak and can't seem to help it. That's why I know he's capable of murder. He's like me.
- [Laura turns to look at her, shocked]
- Ann Treadwell: No, dear, I didn't. But I thought of it.
- Laura Hunt: [Explaining why she broke a promise] You forced me to give you my word. I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do of my own free will.
- Laura Hunt: It was a terrible shock, poor darling.
- Mark McPherson: Don't tell me you're in love with him too?
- Shelby Carpenter: Look here fella, you're not to talk that way to Miss Hunt.
- Mark McPherson: Shut up.
- Laura Hunt: But you write about people with such real understanding and sentiment. That's what makes your column so good.
- Waldo Lydecker: Sentiment comes easily at 50 cents a word.
- Mark McPherson: Haven't you seen the papers? Where have you been?
- Laura Hunt: Up in the country. I don't get a newspaper.
- Mark McPherson: Haven't you got a radio?
- Laura Hunt: It was broken.
- Waldo Lydecker: You seem to be completely disregarding something more important than your career.
- Laura Hunt: What?
- Waldo Lydecker: My lunch.
- Shelby Carpenter: I approve of that hat.
- Laura Hunt: You do?
- Laura Hunt: Mm-hmm. And the girl in it too.