I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Barbara Marshall: You going back to active duty, Zach?
Zachary Morgan: Not for a while yet.
Barbara Marshall: Gee, you look a lot better than you did a week ago.
Zachary Morgan: Feel a lot better.
Barbara Marshall: Do you think it was the Marshall food that did it?
Zachary Morgan: Must've helped. I think it was mostly your cousin Mary.
Barbara Marshall: She's awfully nice.
Zachary Morgan: I've noticed that, too. You know what? I think I'll marry her.
Barbara Marshall: Are you kidding?
Zachary Morgan: Not as far as I'm concerned. Of course, I don't know about her, yet.
Barbara Marshall: Well, won't you mind waiting?
Zachary Morgan: That's up to Mary, really. Things have worked out so well, that I may not have to wait as long as I thought.
Barbara Marshall: Well, that's what the folks have always hoped, that she won't have to serve her full term now. But the fact that they let her out of prison for Christmas is a pretty good sign. You know, it wasn't until the other night, when she told me how it all happened, I realized that it really isn't her fault. She's not a criminal. I mean, not like real criminals. Oh, it's too bad that you two can't go back on the train together, but then Mary isn't due in Easton until nine o'clock tonight. She wants to spend as much time with us as she can. You can't blame her, after being locked up for three years.

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Zachary Morgan: [meeting her at the women's prison gate] Mary, I didn't want to make you cry.
Mary Marshall: There's nothing wrong with crying at a time like this.
Zachary Morgan: The minute I got on the train, I knew why you didn't tell me.
Mary Marshall: Nothing matters, except that you're here.
Zachary Morgan: I'm terribly ashamed of walking out like that. I need you, Mary. I want to feel that you need me.
Mary Marshall: Oh, I do. I do.
Zachary Morgan: I'll be right here. I'll be right here waiting. I'll be all well by then. Ready to make a new start, too.

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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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Director George Cukor was replaced by William Dieterle.
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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