That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Merle Oberon: Jill Baker

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• Dr. Vengard : Most people know nothing about themselves. Nothing. Their own real personality is a complete stranger to them. Now, what I'm trying to do is to introduce you to your inner-self. I want you to get acquainted with yourself. Wouldn't you like to meet you? Don't you want to get to know yourself?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : No. You see, I'm a little shy.

• Sally Aikens : I was doing some secretarial work for Mr. Baker.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Oh, secretary's work on Saturday night?

  Sally Aikens : Oh, well, eh, I-I'm a notary public too.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Oh, I see. And you brought your seal?

  Sally Aikens : Oh, yes!

  Mrs. Jill Baker : A-ha, a trained seal.

• Margie Stallings : Dr. Vengard. I repeat it, Dr. Vengard is the man for you.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Don't let's go into that again. I will not be psycho-analyzed.

  Extra in Ladies Room : Oh, now, Jill. That's a very middle-class attitude.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : I'm a perfectly normal woman.

  Margie Stallings : Well, that's sounds awfully dull.

  Extra in Ladies Room : My dear you musn't say that about yourself - not even in fun!

• Margie Stallings : Now, I don't want to cause any trouble. But cold facts are cold facts! If Mr. and Mrs. Cooper come, that big, awful looking Mrs. Cooper, he shaves.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : And if he has dinner alone with his wife, he doesn't shave!

  Margie Stallings : And if anybody should shave, it's Mrs. Cooper!

  Mrs. Jill Baker : And I spent three-and-a-half hours today at Elizabeth Arden's, but I don't rate a shave.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Egészségedre!

  Kafka : Egészségedre?

  [looks around the table at the other guests; then, indicating Jill] 

  Kafka : Egészségedre!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Ah, good grief!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Just a habit, isn't it?

  Larry Baker : Yes, if you want to call it that.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Like scratching your head or patting your dog. Would you do it to some other woman?

  Larry Baker : Well, I don't know. I never tried.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : But, you do it to me.

  Larry Baker : Well, you're my wife.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : And that gives you the right to poke me in the stomach whenever you want, heh?

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Larry, please don't keeks me anymore.

• Alexander Sebastian : Let me warn you that I say what I think. I'm a complete individualist.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Really?

  Alexander Sebastian : I'm against Communism, Capitalism, Fascism, Nazism. I'm against everything and everybody. I hate my fellow man and he hates me.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : It sounds rather amusing.

  Alexander Sebastian : So, I amuse you? I'm a clown, eh? Pagliacci!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : You are a puzzle, Mr. Alexander Sebastian.

  Alexander Sebastian : And don't you try to solve me, Mrs. Happy Baker.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : It's difficult to show you the symptoms at the moment, because - it comes and it goes.

  Dr. Vengard : Oh, it comes and - it goes.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Yes. It's so unfortunate. It's always the same whenever I see a doctor. When - when I come, it goes. And when I go, it comes.

  Dr. Vengard : Mrs. Baker, whatever comes and whatever goes, there's no denying it worries you a lot. So, please drop all your inhibitions, release your inner-self, and speak freely. What comes and what goes?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Hiccups!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Doctor, please believe me, there's nothing wrong with my marriage. You could go through all Park Avenue and you wouldn't find a happier couple.

  Dr. Vengard : Well, I'm sorry, but it's my duty to explore every avenue, especially Park Avenue.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : After all, husbands expect their wives to keep their figures.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : I've always heard that the ideal marriage should be something of a mystery. That your husband should remain a kind of stranger to you. Someone whose acquaintance you'd like to renew every day.

• Larry Baker : Now, the tough man to crack is Kafka - of Universal Mattress. I've done a little detective work: he's a Hungarian. As a matter of fact, they're all Hungarians. So, so let's give the dinner a kind of - Hungarian touch, heh?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Now look, Larry...

  Larry Baker : Oh, now listen, darling, I didn't expect you to behave like a gypsy. But, let's hire a Hungarian cook and make him a wonderful goulash!

• Alexander Sebastian : What's wrong with you?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : [Defensively]  Nothing.

  Alexander Sebastian : Why are you here? You don't go to a psycho-analyst to have tooth filled?

• Alexander Sebastian : That's almost great.

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Who painted it?

  Alexander Sebastian : A woman. No man could be so malicious.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : He's not a piano player, he's a pianist.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : [Mr. Baker sneaks up behind Mrs. Baker and puts his hands over her eyes]  Oh, nice surprise, eh! Ha-ha-ha. Hello, my genius. Ha-ha. Who are you going to be this evening? Come, tell your little cadenza! Are you - Mozart? Playful, tender? Or, are you the thundering Beethoven? Strong, fiery, unyielding! Come, darling. Tell your little cade - -

  [Turns around, realizes it is her husband, and faints] 

• Mrs. Jill Baker : So, you can hit a man, but you don't dare strike a woman. You, coward, you!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : How dare you say that about my beloved mother!

  Larry Baker : Your beloved mother - pooh!

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Who are you to pooh my mother?

• Mrs. Jill Baker : [Repeated line]  You cheap, second-rate, insurance peddler!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : He had to get drunk to do it.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Very exciting - being transferred from the business world into the world of art. Nothing but Bach and Tchaikovsky!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : I love to make him angry. He turns into a - big - Grizzly bear!

• Mrs. Jill Baker : I only hope poor Larry has as good a time as I.

  Margie Stallings : Well, when I saw him at the Monte Carlo...

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Oh, yes, I suppose that was another one of those dull, business evenings. Was it a large party?

  Margie Stallings : No, I'd say she was about your size.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : There's no use pretending - I'm defeated.

• Mrs. Jill Baker : Doctor, I want to be frank with you. I'm absolutely certain there's absolutely nothing wrong with me.

  Dr. Vengard : I'm sure you'll feel differently when you leave this office.

• Alexander Sebastian : You smoke yourself?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Yes.

  Alexander Sebastian : [a pause]  You, eh, haven't got a cigarette, eh?

  Mrs. Jill Baker : Yes.

  [she takes her cigarette case from her handbag and offers it to him] 

  Alexander Sebastian : Haven't any without tips?