Mary Astor

Mary Astor
(as Mrs. Edith Cortright)

Fran Dodsworth: I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age.
Mrs. Edith Cortright: You're almost sure to, my dear.

Walter Huston

Walter Huston
(as Sam Dodsworth)

Fran Dodsworth: Oh, you're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.
Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.

Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton
(as Fran Dodsworth)

Fran Dodsworth: Remember, I, I did make a home for you once, and I'll do it again, only you've got to let me have my fling now! Because you're simply rushing at old age, Sam, and I'm not ready for that yet.

Maria Ouspenskaya

Maria Ouspenskaya
(as Baroness Von Obersdorf)

Baroness Von Obersdorf: [to Fran] Have you thought how little happiness there can be for the... *old* wife... of a young husband?

Walter Huston

Walter Huston
(as Sam Dodsworth)

Sam Dodsworth: Love has got to stop some place short of suicide.


Walter Huston

Walter Huston
(as Sam Dodsworth)

Sam Dodsworth: You'll have to stop getting younger someday.

Walter Huston

Walter Huston
(as Sam Dodsworth)

[first lines]
Secretary: [offscreen] Mr. Dodsworth?
Sam Dodsworth: Yes.
Secretary: The men are ready.

Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton
(as Fran Dodsworth)

[last lines]
Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.
Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
[Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds]
Steward: But the gentleman will miss the boat!
Fran Dodsworth: [shouting above the boat whistle] HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!

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