The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

Edward Brophy: Goldie Locke

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Quotes 

• Goldie Locke : [On seeing beautiful woman]  If she can't help me with my income tax, nobody can.

• Goldie Locke : Annie, how old are you?

  Annie Marshall : I'll be 18 eleven years from next August.

• Annie Marshall : You've got Diogenes!

  Goldie Locke : I ain't been sick a day in my life.

• Goldie Locke : What's gettin' married got to do with the income tax?

  Tom Lawrence : Well, uh, a married man gets a larger personal exemption.

  Goldie Locke : No kiddin'. Hey, that ain't a bad deal. You know, that way you pay less tax and you get home-cookin' besides.

  Tom Lawrence : Many brave men have tried marriage, and, uh, survived.

  Goldie Locke : Okay, you talked me into it.

  Tom Lawrence : You're not serious!

  Goldie Locke : Hmph? Oh, sure, sure I am, ain't it about time I owned a wife?

  Tom Lawrence : You mean, you'd get married just to cut down your income tax?

  Goldie Locke : Oh, that ain't all wives can do... I could write a letter to the Lonely Hearts Club.

  Tom Lawrence : They're not that lonely.

• Goldie Locke : [presenting his case to the hotel maid that he'd make a good husband while she vacuums the hall]  I'm kind to dumb animals... I treat women like they was almost my equal - I'm a one-woman man. Easy-goin', steady-goin'. Whaddya say, sister, whaddya say?

  Hotel Maid : [stops vacuuming]  Well, you're very kind, but you know, I've been married three times.

  Goldie Locke : Three times.

  Hotel Maid : Three husbands, and they all died.

  Goldie Locke : All died.

  Hotel Maid : Buried all three of 'em.

  Goldie Locke : All three.

  Hotel Maid : I remember the funeral of the last one, lookin' down his coffin to say my last goodbye to him... he looked better then than you do right now.

  [continues vacuuming] 

  Goldie Locke : [all flustered]  Whyy, you husband-burier!

• Goldie Locke : Annie, you're gonna make some guy a very swell wife when you grow up.

  Annie Marshall : [sighs]  I know it Goldilocks. But when I marry Mr. Lawrence he's gotta stop running after other girls.

• Annie Marshall : Goldie Locks? So you're the one who ate up all the porridge!

  Goldie Locke : I didn't do it - I was framed!