I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Barbara Marshall: Dad. Dad, I want to ask you a question.
Mr. Marshall: Fine. Fire away.
Barbara Marshall: You know, you never told me anything about Mary. I mean, why she was sent to prison, and why she ...
Mr. Marshall: You can find out about that some other time, when you're a little older.
Barbara Marshall: But it can't be so secret. I don't see why I shouldn't know.
Mr. Marshall: Barbara, you can find out about that some other time. It's just that Mary made a little mistake, and that's all there is to it.
Barbara Marshall: But they don't send people to prison for just doing nothing.
Mr. Marshall: Now, look, Barbara, I'm trying to listen to the radio and work this puzzle, and I can't take on any other jobs at the moment.
Barbara Marshall: But, what if my friends ask me about her? What'll I tell them? They'll want to know why ...
Mr. Marshall: Just tell them that Mary is your cousin. From that point on, they can mind their own business. And it seems to me that your business might be helping your mother out in the kitchen.
Barbara Marshall: [laughing] Oh, Dad. Sometimes the way you talk to me, you make me feel like I'm an adopted daughter or something.

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Mrs. Marshall: Oh, I understood, Mary. When Zach said he was a stranger, you felt as if the words were coming from your own lips.
Mr. Marshall: Might have happened to any girl. Could have been just Christmas sentiment. Good night, Mary.
Mary Marshall: Good night, Uncle Henry.
Mr. Marshall: Good night. Don't forget to turn out the lights, Sarah.
Mrs. Marshall: All right, dear. So don't worry about making a scene.
Mary Marshall: Well, I'm not worrying about that, Aunt Sarah. I was just wondering if I shouldn't tell him about me.
Mrs. Marshall: Oh, not for the world.
Mary Marshall: You don't think so?
Mrs. Marshall: Well, why?
Mary Marshall: Well, he trusts me, and it doesn't seem fair.
Mrs. Marshall: Oh, there's no reason for it, Mary. He'll only be here for a few days. He's lonely, and you're making things pleasant for him.
Mary Marshall: That's not the reason I'm seeing him, Aunt Sarah. Because I like him. I like him a lot.
Mrs. Marshall: Of course you do, dear, but it isn't as if you were going to marry him.
Mary Marshall: No. It's not as if I was going to marry him.
Mrs. Marshall: I didn't mean it like that, dear.
Mary Marshall: I know.
Mrs. Marshall: Have fun, Mary. See Zach everyday, if you like. Act like any other girl.
Mary Marshall: I try, Aunt Sarah, but I can't seem to make myself feel like any other girl. I just feel like me.
Mrs. Marshall: And that's pretty darn good. Now you have fun.

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Mary Marshall: [meeting for the first time on the train] Are you going home on furlough?
Zachary Morgan: Yeah. Yeah, I'm on furlough. They gave me a furlough.
Mary Marshall: Is this your first time home since...
Zachary Morgan: Well, I haven't got any regular home or family. I'm just going to visit. You traveling on business, or...
Mary Marshall: No, I'm on vacation. Christmas vacation.
Zachary Morgan: What kind of business are you in? I mean, what sort of work do you do?
Mary Marshall: Well, I, uh... I travel. I'm a traveling saleswom - uh, saleslady.
Zachary Morgan: I never heard any jokes about traveling salesladies. I guess there aren't many. I never would have guessed that's what you did.
Mary Marshall: Well, what - what would you have guessed?
Zachary Morgan: Oh, that you were, uh, I don't know... a secretary or a model maybe, a schoolteacher.
Mary Marshall: Well, I once was a secretary, and I wanted to be a model. So that would have been pretty good guessing.
Zachary Morgan: You going all the way to L.A.?
Mary Marshall: No. No, I haven't much farther to go, as a matter of fact. I'm getting off at Pinehill.
Zachary Morgan: Oh. Oh, well... Is Pinehill your home?
Mary Marshall: No. I'm just visting my uncle.
Zachary Morgan: That's funny. I'm going to Pinehill, too.
Mary Marshall: Oh, really?
Zachary Morgan: Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm visiting there. My sister lives in Pinehill.
Mary Marshall: I bet she'll be very glad to see you.
Zachary Morgan: I hope so. Maybe we'll run into each other there.
Mary Marshall: Yes.

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American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-1950, erroneously gives the release date as 5 January 1944 instead of 5 January 1945.
Joan Fontaine, who was to play the female lead, was forced to withdraw due to previous commitments.
The quote from Lincoln under his photograph in the YMCA room is from his Cooper Union Address: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it" (February 27, 1860).
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