Father Takes a Wife (1941)
John Howard: Frederick Osborne Junior
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Quotes
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Junior : Uh, where are you going on your honeymoon?
Leslie Collier : I'd like to take a trip through the Rockies... with a pack and mules and...
Enid : The Rockies would be bad for Father's blood pressure.
Leslie Collier : Well then, we could go to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, and beat each other over the head with magnolia blossoms.
[chuckles]
Junior : Well, that would be bad for Father's hay fever.
Senior : How would you children like it if we took a nice trip to some clinic. Then we could sail down my bloodstream and take some lovely x-ray pictures of our honeymoon.
[Leslie giggles]
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Junior : [to Senior as Senior tightens his girdle belt] You pull that any tighter your hat won't fit.
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Junior : I thought you wanted to avoid publicity.
Senior : Well, when you marry a woman like Leslie Collier, you've got to expect *some* publicity.
Junior : If you let her get the upper hand you're a dead duck. Take me, for instance. I trained Enid from the very beginning.
Senior : Yes, and now you've got her- *just* where she wants you.
Junior : Yes- I mean, no.
[Senior chuckles]
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Junior : [to Senior, the morning after Senior has had a fight with Leslie] You must remember that the first time you were married I wasn't there to advise you. But times have changed since then. Men can't talk to their wives the way they used to. The best thing you can do is to apologize.
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Junior : [after Senior sees Carlos being driven in Senior's car] Yes, it's Carlos, he's coming out to stay with us. Now, all you have to do is go home and say you're sorry and make Leslie believe it.
Senior : [to the chauffeur] George! Stop by my florist!
[to Junior]
Senior : My son,
[slapping Junior's knee]
Senior : you're the best father a father ever had!
[laughs]
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Junior : [to Enid, referring to Carlos staying with them] I'm sick of having this place overrun with piano tuners and throat doctors and sprays! I want my chauffeur at the station, my valet pressing my tails, not his. He smokes my cigars! He drinks my oldest wines! He wears my clothes! Why, I can't even take a shower without hearing that platinum canary coughing up cadenzas!
[sighs deeply and leaves the room]