Father Takes a Wife (1941)

John Howard: Frederick Osborne Junior

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• Senior : [Senior having trouble telling Junior that he wants to get married]  Freddie, why do you make it so impossibly difficult? You know what I'm trying to say. You were young once.

  Junior : I was never as young as you are.

• 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] 

• Junior : [to Senior as Senior tightens his girdle belt]  You pull that any tighter your hat won't fit.

• 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] 

• 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.

• 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] 

• 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]