Sylvia Sidney credited as playing...
Joan Prentice
- Joan Prentice: Gentlemen, I give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style: single lives, twin beds and triple bromides in the morning.
- Charlie Baxter: [Toasting] To the ladies. They keep their hearts, and change their minds.
- Joan Prentice: Oh, no. We keep our minds, but change our hearts!
- Jerry Corbett: If you love me, you'll lock that door so that I can't get out.
- [Joan opens the door]
- Jerry Corbett: You mean that?
- Joan Prentice: I'm no jailer.
- Joan Prentice: I spent the morning realizing that we're living in a modern world - where there's no place for old-fashioned wives. You seem to want a modern wife and that's what I'm going to be. In other words, I'm going to unpack my trunks. You see, I'd rather go merrily to Hell with you than alone.
- Joan Prentice: [seeing Jerry being carried in] Oh, Buck - is he hurt?
- Buck: Oh, he's still alive, but a couple of bottles of scotch are dead.
- Jerry Corbett: You don't often see such fine hands. Long, slender and artistic. And a diamond ring the size of a small potato on the right little finger.
- Joan Prentice: Awfully fine head. You're like an Indian. Fine chiseled features. Clean-cut as a tomahawk.
- Jerry Corbett: Don't you think I've done enough today?
- Joan Prentice: How many pages?
- Jerry Corbett: Two, uh, and a half.
- Joan Prentice: You know you do three pages a day.
- Jerry Corbett: You're not Mrs. Jerry Corbett. You're Mrs. Simon Legree and I'm poor ol' Uncle Tom.
- Jerry Corbett: I always said you were swell.
- Joan Prentice: Perhaps you won't think so much longer because if being a modern husband gives you privileges, then being a modern wife gives me privileges.
- Joan Prentice: I see you believe in signs.
- Jerry Corbett: [Drunkenly] Mmmm, and all the signs point to three stars.
- [THe camera pans in to a bottle of Henessey brandy]
- Jerry Corbett: Wouldn't you like a little drink?
- Joan Prentice: No thank you. Drinking isn't one of my many vices.
- Jerry Corbett: Oh, personally, I'm going to stop drinking next Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock sharp.
- Joan Prentice: Do you always make love to girls when you take them for a drive?
- Jerry Corbett: I don't often take them for a drive. I'm afraid as a rule I prefer the company of men - particularly if they're bartenders. You see, I figured out a long time ago a punch in the nose heals much quicker than a broken heart.
- Joan Prentice: If being a modern husband gives you privileges, then being a modern wife gives me privileges.
- Jerry Corbett: I'm not worried, honey. I've told you before, you've got the words but not the tune.
- Joan Prentice: Don't forget, I have a musical ear and can pick up tunes easily.
- Party Boy: [laughing, drunkenly] By the way, has anyone here heard about the depression?
- Joan Prentice: What depression?
- Male Party Guest: The very charming depression between your shoulder blades, my dear.
- Joan Prentice: [giggling] You're tickling me.