Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

Betsy Drake: Anabel Sims

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• Julie Howard : Anabelle! Do you mean you're going to deliberately set out to trap him?

  Anabel Sims : Well, I know it's dreadful but this is the kind of thing men force us to do.

• Anabel Sims : You don't happen to know any millionaires, do you?

  Julie Howard : If I did I'd hoard 'em.

• Anabel Sims : Why can't we send them flowers and candy? Or take them out to dinner? Or why can't we call for them in our cars and take them for a nice little drive in the country?

  Julie Howard : And run out of gas?

  Anabel Sims : Maybe. If we wanted to.

• Dr. Madison Brown : Sex, female.

  Anabel Sims : Well, of course, for heaven's sake.

• Anabel Sims : Charlie, haven't you anything better to do than be fresh?

• Dr. Madison Brown : I 'd like to see some booties.

  Anabel Sims : Booties?

• Anabel Sims : Oh, Dr. Brown, of course. How could I ever forget you?

  Dr. Madison Brown : Oh, why not? Ordinary face and I've been wearing it for years.

• Anabel Sims : You see, every girls should be married - which is something you probably already know.

• Anabel Sims : You don't know what terrible things I've done. I've used your name, I've lied about you, and I've even pretended there was - a wild love affair going on between us.

• Anabel Sims : To tell you the truth, it was all a kind of a plan. You see, I was after you; but, I wasn't after you. Why I was only after you because I was after him. You understand?

• Anabel Sims : Why I haven't done a single thing that isn't legitimate for a girl.

• Sam McNutt : After all, what's the matter with her? Nice eyes, pretty nose, cute little figure.

  Anabel Sims : Why don't you open my mouth and examine my teeth!

• Anabel Sims : Julie, do you know something about being a girl? You can just never give up. You have to take every single little defeat and twist it around and around - until it turns into a great big victory.

• Anabel Sims : You mean you're not going to put me in jail?

  Roger Sanford : That all depends, my dear.

• Anabel Sims : Martinis - with a small onion.

  Dr. Madison Brown : Well, that's the only way I like them.

  Anabel Sims : Well, I guessed right then, didn't I?

  Dr. Madison Brown : Yes. You seem to have a special talent for knowing what people like.

  Anabel Sims : Well, some people.

• Anabel Sims : And who made that crazy rule that a man can just see a girl he likes and right away ask her for a date; but, a girl can't ever ask a man - no matter how wonderful she thinks he is. She can't say where'd you get those big brown eyes or let's go bowling Thursday. And who made that rule? Men! That's who.

• Anabel Sims : I bet you a dollar sixty-nine I'm on my way to jail right now.

• Anabel Sims : Once you get your name in the papers, even if its just a bunch of big lies, people begin to do the craziest things. Why, they even asked me my opinion about politics. Now, who knows anything about that?

• Anabel Sims : I guess the older you get, the less you know about men.

• Anabel Sims : We'll have our dinner on a card table, right in front of a cozy fire. Because, you know, there's nothing like delicious home-cooked food to make a man not want to be a bachelor anymore.

  Julie Howard : Home-cooked food, my eye. It's all those little trimmings that you're counting on. Like that snug little dress of your's and when you serve the turtle soup, accidentally letting your hair brush against his cheek.

  Anabel Sims : Why, Julie.

  Julie Howard : Of course, I don't want to put any ideas into your head.

  Anabel Sims : Well, if you can think of any I've missed...

• Anabel Sims : You know what Mr. Sanford's like. Do you remember before when he promised to make me a head of a department and what happened? I got chased all over a three-story house!