Ida Lupino credited as playing...
Jean Howard
- Jean Howard: Love is a beautiful thing.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: I get two hours of it every Saturday night at a movie. That's enough for me.
- Jean Howard: You don't have to know me. All you have to do is marry me. I mean, pretend to marry me, just for a little while.
- Jean Howard: It's so hard to tell if a man is married. Course, a girl always wears a ring on her finger.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Mmm hmm, a man always wears one through his nose.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: You mean, if you can be married and stay single, fine, but...
- Jean Howard: Yes.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: [Seeing Jean in a skimpy nightgown] Holy mackerel!
- Jean Howard: What are you staring at?
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Is that a special outfit for brushing your teeth?
- Jean Howard: It happens to be the latest thing in night-ware.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Oh... I suppose it gives you more freedom?
- Jean Howard: Well, that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: You're going too fast for me. I have to have time to think things like this over.
- Jean Howard: Mr. Clark, you don't seem like the hesitating type to me.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: I'm not exactly hesitating. I'm just kind of hard to get. Now, you got to work on me a little while. Now, last year, for instance, Foster took me for a week's fishing trip for an order. How badly do you want this one? Say, a dinner's worth?
- Jean Howard: Surely I don't need to bribe you, Mr. Clark.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: You don't call my taking you out to dinner bribing me, do you?
- J.R. Howard: This is a man's job.
- Jean Howard: Why?
- J.R. Howard: Well, well it is! That's all. Who ever heard of a female oil well supply salesman? Why, I'd be laughed right out of the business.
- Jean Howard: You see, I'm not married. But, I'm supposed to be. I don't mean that I'm going to be. I just mean that people think that I am. I'm not. Oh dear. I must sound confused.
- Jean Howard: I'm the guy from Howard's.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Well, *hello*. Brother!
- Jean Howard: Did you get our wire?
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Yes.
- [looking Jean up-and-down]
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Say, I've heard about things like this; but, I thought the only time you saw it was when you went without water for a week or two.
- Jean Howard: Well, won't you ask fellow to sit down?
- Jean Howard: I'm not going to be talked to that way by you or anybody else - in or out of uniform. Now, who's your commanding officer?
- Colonel Michael Otley: My commanding officer?
- Jean Howard: Yes! I'm going to report you.
- Colonel Michael Otley: Report? Well, oh, if you were only a WAC!
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Listen, lady, what would you think if you picked up a strange man and he wanted to do what you want to do?
- Jean Howard: All I want to do is sleep!
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: If my commanding officer ever found it out, he'd...
- Jean Howard: Oh, but he doesn't have to find it out. This is just between you and me. And when it's all over, you can forget it.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: A strange man is picking you up here?
- Jean Howard: Oh, there's nothing strange about him. He's a customer.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: What am I supposed to do? Stay home and knit?
- Colonel Michael Otley: Attack your problem, my boy. Attack it. Mrs. Otley and I had the right idea 30 years ago. We made it a counter-order, no matter what rages in our hearts, to kiss each other. She'll find it pretty hard to shout at you after a kiss.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: But, you mean, I...
- Jean Howard: Are you suggesting that he kiss me?
- Colonel Michael Otley: As his commanding officer, it could be interpreted as an order!
- Jean Howard: A business engagement. I suppose I should have told you before. I sell oil well supplies.
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Oil well supplies?
- Jean Howard: You're not jealous, are you?
- Lieutenant Don Mallory: Jealous? Of you and that long drink of oil? Heh.
- Captain Jack Ross: Now Millie doesn't want an avocado. What does that mean.
- Jean Howard: Try cantaloupe.
- Captain Jack Ross: Oh, thank you. This may be a night to remember.
- Jean Howard: It may be one to forget.