House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Carol Ohmart: Annabelle Loren

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Quotes 

• Frederick Loren : Don't let the ghosts and the ghouls disturb you, love.

  Annabelle Loren : Darling, the only ghoul in the house is you!

• Frederick Loren : Do you remember the fun we had when you poisoned me?

  Annabelle Loren : [laughs]  Something you ate, the doctor said.

  Frederick Loren : Yes, arsenic on the rocks...

  [grabs Annabelle] 

  Frederick Loren : Annabelle, you'd do it again if you thought you'd get away with it, wouldn't you?

• [starts shaking up bottle of champagne] 

  Annabelle Loren : Why do you always do that? It spoils the champagne.

  Frederick Loren : It might explode.

  Annabelle Loren : Never does.

  Frederick Loren : Can you guarantee that?

  [aims champagne bottle at Annabelle] 

  Annabelle Loren : That isn't funny, Frederick.

  Frederick Loren : Make a good headline, "Playboy kills wife with champagne cork."

• Annabelle Loren : You're in danger here - we all are.

  Nora Manning : From who?

  Annabelle Loren : I hope for your sake you never find out.

• Annabelle Loren : You know, of course, that I'm his fourth wife. The first simply disappeared; the other two died.

• Annabelle Loren : My husband is sometimes insane with jealousy. Nothing matters to him!

  Lance Schroeder : Would he hurt you?

  Annabelle Loren : He would kill me if he could.

• Annabelle Loren : Oh, I'm sure we're not going to go running around the house shooting each other, aren't you?

• Frederick Loren : Would you go away for a million dollars tax free

  [Annabelle smiles and shakes her head] 

  Frederick Loren : .

  Frederick Loren : Of course not, you want it all don't you.

  Annabelle Loren : I deserve it all, your jealousy isn't tax free and your possessiveness is maddening.

  Frederick Loren : If ever a man had grounds for divorce.

  Annabelle Loren : But can't prove them.

• Annabelle Loren : And you call this a party?

  Frederick Loren : Could be.

• Annabelle Loren : [about Frederick's previous wives]  All his doctors said heart attacks. Two girls in their 20s. Lance... I don't want to join them.

• Annabelle Loren : Dr. Trent, don't you approve of our little party favors?

  Dr. David Trent : Suppose Nora had a gun when she was alone in the cellar with the blind woman?

  Ruth : Oh, I don't think anyone else is going to walk around in total darkness.

  Annabelle Loren : Oh, I'm sure we're not going to go running around the house shooting each other, aren't you?

  Dr. David Trent : Who knows? Fear can make people do amazing things.