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Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, and Lee Bowman in The Impatient Years (1944)

Jean Arthur: Janie Anderson

The Impatient Years

Jean Arthur credited as playing...

Janie Anderson

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Quotes4

  • William Smith: A girl your age shouldn't be such an old maid.
  • Janie Anderson: Well, is organizing your day being an old maid? For heaven's sake you have to when you are doing housekeeping, all the books tell you.
  • William Smith: Maybe that's your trouble, Janie. You learned to be a wife out of a book. Yes sir, you've become an automaton. Too much schedule for a girl your age. Especially now that Andy's here. Of course, when he was away it was alright. But, now its your duty to make yourself attractive to your husband.
  • Janie Anderson: Attractive?
  • William Smith: Yes, attractive.
  • Janie Anderson: Oh, I'm terribly sorry that we couldn't meet you in San Francisco because, well, on account of the gasoline rationing and everything.
  • Andy Anderson: On, no, the bus was swell.
  • Counterman: Now, look, Bud, I'd imagine that after running into a wrong dame, like this one, you'd realize you got a pretty nice wife at home and you wouldn't want to get a divorce.
  • Andy Anderson: She's my wife.
  • Counterman: Who?
  • Janie Anderson: Me, that's who!
  • Janie Anderson: I was probably so cold my brain was numb.
  • Andy Anderson: Well, you apparently never got thawed out, that's all I know.
  • Janie Anderson: I don't think you could thaw anybody out anyway.

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