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Disraeli

Disraeli

Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Why do you dislike Mr. Disraeli so much?
Lord Charles Deeford: I neither like him nor dislike him. He's nothing to me.
Lady Clarissa Pevensey: Don't you feel lonely?
Lord Charles Deeford: Lonely?
Lady Clarissa Pevensey: You're the only man in all the world who neither likes nor dislikes Mr. Disraeli.


--Joan Bennett (as Lady Clarissa Pevensey) in Disraeli

The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

Lucia Harper: It was my way of doing something that made everything wrong!


--Joan Bennett (as ) in The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

Lucia Harper: Just once, David, I'd like to see you fully clothed.


--Joan Bennett (as ) in The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

Lucia Harper: You don't know how a family can surround you at times.
Martin: Do you never get away from your family?
Lucia Harper: No.


--Joan Bennett (as ) in The Reckless Moment

There's Always Tomorrow

There's Always Tomorrow

Marion Groves: At my age a birthday is only a time to turn all mirrors to the wall.


--Joan Bennett (as Marion Groves) in There's Always Tomorrow


The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment

Martin: She's lucky to have a mother like you.
Lucia Harper: Everyone has a mother like me. You probably had one, too.


--Joan Bennett (as ) in The Reckless Moment

Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes

[Morey sees Eve at the hotel drugstore counter buying aspirin. He enters and starts a conversation with her, finding out that she has just lost her manicurist job]
Richard Morey: They have nice perfumes here.
Eve Fallon: Yeah, if you can afford 'em.
Richard Morey: Uh, how much are these?
Off-screen Sales Clerk: Fifty-five dollars.
Richard Morey: Give me four of them.
Eve Fallon: Mmmmm. You must have lots of friends.
Richard Morey: Oh, they're all for you.
Eve Fallon: Oh, but I couldn't.
Richard Morey: Oh, but you could.
Eve Fallon: Oh, but I mustn't.
Richard Morey: Oh, but you must. And you will. How about some candy, too? Here you are. You like sweets?
[piling on the candy boxes]
Richard Morey: One more.
Eve Fallon: Please! I'll have to get a truck to carry all these things home.
Richard Morey: No, you won't. My car's right here at the door.
[to the sales clerk]
Richard Morey: Charge it, will you?
[fade to the back seat of Morey's limo]
Richard Morey: An apartment, French maid, your own car and chauffeur. Doesn't it sound good?
Eve Fallon: [deadpan] Mmmmm. Too good to be true.
Richard Morey: It... could be true.
Eve Fallon: [sardonically] And all I'd have to do is manicure your nails?
Eve Fallon: [getting up to leave] Here's my house.
Richard Morey: But Eve, haven't you forgotten something?
Eve Fallon: Yeah, my key, but I'll slip through the transom.
Richard Morey: But what about the candy and perfume?
Eve Fallon: Ah, give the candy to your chauffeur and use the perfume yourself.
[Eve slams the car door]

--Joan Bennett (as Eve Fallon) in Big Brown Eyes

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