Hired Wife (1940)

John Carroll: Jose de Briganza

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• Jose de Briganza : Miss Walden is a close friend?

  Kendal Browning : Of Stephen's.

  Jose de Briganza : I will kill him.

  Kendal Browning : That wouldn't help me.

  Jose de Briganza : I will kill her.

  Kendal Browning : Now you're talking. But no thank you.

• Kendal Browning : [Going over José's expenses, charged to the company, to lure Phyllis Walden away from Stephen]  What's this item, one cockatoo?

  Jose de Briganza : [Waving one hand behind his head]  You know, cockatoo.

  Kendal Browning : Yeah, I know what they are, but what I wanna know is how do you use them in making love.

  Jose de Briganza : Phyllis want one for the pet, so I give her the bird.

  Kendal Browning : Oh, that's all right by me. But, uh, José, $75 for one bird?

  Jose de Briganza : It talks.

  Kendal Browning : For that amount of money it ought a read, write and vote.