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Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson in Clouds Over Europe (1939)

Laurence Olivier: Tony McVane

Clouds Over Europe

Laurence Olivier credited as playing...

Tony McVane

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  • Mr. Barrett: All right! All right! Will you as a personal favour take that plane up?
  • Tony McVane: Well of course I will, you parboiled, pudding-minded, myopic deadhead!
  • Tony McVane: You're pretty fresh for a new girl.
  • Kay: New things should always be fresh.
  • Tony McVane: [at Major Hammond's home, making stew] Seriously, why don't you get yourself a husband?
  • Kay: Where from?
  • Tony McVane: Oh, anywhere. You'd have no difficulty.
  • Kay: No?
  • Tony McVane: No, not if you put your mind to it.
  • Kay: Oh. My mind.
  • Tony McVane: Yes, good women are scarce. You'd make a grand wife -- honestly.
  • Kay: Because I can cook?
  • Tony McVane: Well, that is a selling point.
  • Kay: I suppose you don't want a nice, plain cook?
  • Tony McVane: Me? No. Whatever made you think that?
  • Kay: Pass me the pepper, please.
  • Tony McVane: Mmm.
  • [hands her the pepper]
  • Tony McVane: Think of the advantages of marriage... well, Al least you wouldn't have to go tramping around making an ass of yourself just to earn money.
  • Kay: I take that to be a description of newspaper reporting?
  • Tony McVane: Ohh, all that sort of thing. I mean, a married woman doesn't have to descend to vulgarities just to keep herself going.
  • Kay: Of all the pompous, conceited snobs I have ever met, you are the most insufferable. Do you know that for one appalling moment I thought you were going to propose to me? And luckily, I was wrong- otherwise I would have had the *great* pleasure of telling you that life with you would be just exactly my idea of purgatory. I hope I never set eyes on you again. Goodbye!
  • [she stalks out of the kitchen, but then returns]
  • Kay: Oh, I, uh... forgot, I'm living here. As I can't bounce out of the house, would you mind removing yourself?
  • Tony McVane: [on his way out Tony gives her a kitchen towel, apron, and a wooden spoon] Goodbye, darling.

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