Vincent Price credited as playing...
Shelby Carpenter
- Shelby Carpenter: I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything.
- Shelby Carpenter: I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?
- Laura Hunt: Yes.
- Shelby Carpenter: No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?
- Laura Hunt: Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements!
- Shelby Carpenter: And two months from now? And the month after that?
- Laura Hunt: What about next year?
- Shelby Carpenter: Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?
- Laura Hunt: What about dancing?
- Shelby Carpenter: What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?
- Shelby Carpenter: I forgot to tell you, I also read palms, I swallow swords, I mend my own socks, I never eat garlic or onions, what more could you want of a man?
- Mark MacPherson: On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked.
- Shelby Carpenter: I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.
- Mark MacPherson: But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead.
- Shelby Carpenter: For the last time, Louise, will you marry me?
- Louise, Ann's Cook: No, but I cooked some chicken liver for you.
- Waldo Lydecker: Good evening.
- Shelby Carpenter: Hello, darling, I didn't expect to see you tonight.
- Waldo Lydecker: There you are, my dear. In a moment of supreme disaster, he's trite.
- Shelby Carpenter: You've been reading too many melodramas, Waldo.
- Mark McPherson: Why did you say they played Brahms's First and Beethoven's Ninth at the concert Friday night? They changed the program at the last minute and played nothing but Sibelius.
- Shelby Carpenter: I suppose I should have told you in the first place. You see, I'd been working on that advertising campaign with Laura. Well, we'd been working so hard, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. I didn't hear a note at the concert. I fell asleep.
- Waldo Lydecker: Next he'll produce photographic evidence of his dreams.
- Shelby Carpenter: I know it sounds suspicious, but I'm resigned to that by now. I'm a natural-born suspect just because I'm not the conventional type.
- Laura Hunt: It was a terrible shock, poor darling.
- Mark McPherson: Don't tell me you're in love with him too?
- Shelby Carpenter: Look here fella, you're not to talk that way to Miss Hunt.
- Mark McPherson: Shut up.
- Waldo Lydecker: [Music starts playing] Would you mind turning that off?
- Mark McPherson: Why? Don't you like it?
- Shelby Carpenter: It was one of Laura's favorites. Not exactly classical, but sweet.
- Shelby Carpenter: Well, I rather thought you'd want to ask me some questions.
- Mark McPherson: Oh, yes. What did they play at the concert Friday night?
- Shelby Carpenter: Oh, Brahms's First and Beethoven's Ninth.
- Shelby Carpenter: I approve of that hat.
- Laura Hunt: You do?
- Laura Hunt: Mm-hmm. And the girl in it too.