Day-Time Wife (1939)

Linda Darnell: Jane

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• Jane Norton : Oh, Ken, you're a dog. You're the nicest dog I know.

• Jane Norton : If a woman can't hold her man, then it's her own fault. But I'm going to hold mine.

• Jane Norton : Blanche, there's a little of the wandering minstrel in every man, and if you don't hold his interest, he's bound to go whistling under other people's balconies.

  Blanche : Well, I must say, it only took you three weeks to find that out. It took me three husbands.

• Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : [Referring to his wife]  Mrs. Dexter's a wonderful woman, but... uh...

  Jane Norton : You mean it gets to be sort of a... routine?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Hmmm, possibly. After a while a wife gets to be sort of a solved crossword puzzle.

• Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Your mouth is very pretty when you say no. Have you heard that before?

  Jane Norton : Yes.

• Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : After a while, a wife gets to be a sort of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Jane Norton : [as Jane Blake]  Oh, she does?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Mmm, yes. A man likes to be intrigued, likes to fence with someone, someone who's liable to say no.

• Jane Norton : Say, what kind of a person is she?

  Miss Applegate : Oh, she's sort of a combination of Sherlock Holmes and the day of reckoning.

• Jane Norton : [as Jane Blake]  Good morning! Oh, I just saw Mrs. Dexter

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Oh, did you? Did she see you?

  Jane Norton : No.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : You get a bonus.

• Jane Norton : Oh, nonsense, Ben - you're the life of the party.

  Ken Norton : The name's Ken.

• Jane Norton : Say, who was that?

  Miss Applegate : That? Oh, that's Mrs. Dexter.

  Jane Norton : Oh.

  Miss Applegate : Yeah, she pops in every now and then to see if Barney boy is working on buildings or build-ups.

• Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : [Interviewing Jane]  How long were you at school?

  Jane Norton : [Incognito, as Jane Blake]  Well, I graduated.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Ah, well that, that's different. How's your typing?

  Jane Norton : Rapid.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : And your shorthand?

  Jane Norton : About 90 words a minute. Would you care to test me?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : No. No, that won't be necessary.

  [Eying her legs] 

  Jane Norton : I've had some training with files too.

• Jane Norton : [Finding a heel from Kitty's shoe on the floor after she had whacked Ken on the head]  Oh, look. Kitty's heel.

  Ken Norton : She certainly is.

• Ken Norton : Listen, if I have to stay in the doghouse much longer, I'll be barking. Well, aren't you gonna laugh?

  Jane Norton : Well, aren't you gonna bark?

• Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : [Interviewing Jane]  Do you play backgammon?

  Jane Norton : [Incognito, as Jane Bake]  Huh?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Backgammon. Backgammon.

  Jane Norton : Oh, uh, yes. Yes.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Everybody should pay backgammon. That'll be all, Miss Blake.

• Jane Norton : [as Jane Blake]  I think I'd better get this correspondence out, don't you?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Oh, you can make up the rest of that any time. He doesn't know what he wants anyway.

• Miss Applegate : Well, are you in or out?

  Jane Norton : [as Jane Blake]  I... don't know.

  Jane Norton : Did he ask you if you play backgammon?

  Miss Applegate : Yes.

  Jane Norton : [Slapping her hand on her desk]  You're in!

• Jane Norton : Say, are you still on speaking terms with you last husband?

  Blanche : Crawford? Oh, sure. I never let a divorce break up a friendship.

• Jane Norton : No, Ken stays out of my kitchen and I stay out of his office

• Jane Norton : Oh, you'd like him Blanche.

  Blanche : Well, of course, he's a man.

• Jane Norton : Oh, huh, I forgot to thank you for these orchids, Barney - they're lovely.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Oh, I saw them in the florist's window and I said, they should see Jane.

  Jane Norton : You put things in the nicest way.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : I mean it.

• Jane Norton : Well, I really can't see why you want to take me out to dinner. She's very, very pretty. Or, haven't you noticed?

• Jane Norton : And this young lady here is my husband's confidential secretary.

  Mrs. Dexter : Is your husband in the habit of taking his secretary out to dinner parties?

  Jane Norton : Oh, yes, he does it quite often, don't you dear?

  Ken Norton : Eh, we, oh yes. Yes, yes, I take her out most every place I go.

• Jane Norton : People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks.

• Jane Norton : Oh, it's 9:30. Say, has the boss been yelling for me?

  Miss Applegate : He wouldn't yell for you, darling, he'd coo. You got Barney boy all a fluttered. You know, I think he's a little afraid of you.

• Jane Norton : [Helping Kitty make up the sofa for Ken to sleep on]  I wonder if Ken snores.

  Kitty : Believe it or not, I wouldn't know. Ah, I've been out with him a few times, but I think he's in love with his wife.

  Jane Norton : Well, then, why does he go out with you?

  Kitty : Eh, that's natural with men, I guess. Makes them feel like they did when they were little boys and stole apples.

• Miss Applegate : She asked me about you.

  Jane Norton : Oh, she did. What did you tell her?

  Miss Applegate : Oh, that you were a nice girl, kind of ordinary looking, but efficient - like me. That'll probably hold her for a couple of weeks.

• Jane Norton : Is Ken married?

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : Yes, but I gather his wife is no ray of sunshine, eh Ken?

  [They all laugh but Ken] 

  Ken Norton : No, no, I didn't say that.

  Bernard 'Barney' Dexter : He was telling me the other day that she's the quiet, mousey type.

  [laughter] 

  Ken Norton : No, Barney, I didn't say that. You know, under the thumb.