A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Irene Dunne: Dorinda Durston

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• Pete Sandidge : One of these days, you're gonna spin in and break that scrawny little neck.

  Dorinda Durston : Not scrawny!

  Pete Sandidge : It's a Turkey neck.

  Dorinda Durston : A Turkey neck. Who's talking? Why, Pete! You were worried!

  Pete Sandidge : Did you ever stop to think what one of those crates cost?

  Dorinda Durston : Hah! That's a cover-up. You love me.

  Pete Sandidge : I love airplanes.

  Dorinda Durston : That's the same thing.

• Pete Sandidge : Will you have a little snort?

  Dorinda Durston : No, I don't feel like drinking this evening.

• Dorinda Durston : A lot of people criticize a lot of other people for doing a lot of things a lot of other people do which aren't nearly as bad as the things a lot of people are doing themselves.

• Pete Sandidge : Sing it again.

  Dorinda Durston : [singing]  I'll get by as long as I have you, Though there be rain and darkness, too, I'll not complain, I'll laugh it through, Poverty may come my way that's true, But what care I, say, I'll get by, As long as I have you...

• Dorinda Durston : Pete, did I ever give you the wrong impression?

  Pete Sandidge : Why?

  Dorinda Durston : Well, don't watch me blush; but, I tried to once or twice.

• Dorinda Durston : It's a lovely dress, Pete.

  Pete Sandidge : Yeah, it's pretty. Makes me realize you're a girl instead of a sky-flying cowboy.

  Dorinda Durston : I feel like a girl, too. I feel like my 16th birthday and the time I graduated from high school and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

• Pete Sandidge : Say, look, do you want to dance or talk?

  Dorinda Durston : I wanna bite your ear. Let me bite your ear.

  Pete Sandidge : Stop that. People are looking.

  Dorinda Durston : All right, then. Let's just dance. Come on.

• Dorinda Durston : Wrong gal, Pete. Wrong place. Wrong time, too.

• Pete Sandidge : You're a sweet girl, but when I fly for fun, I like to fly alone.

  Dorinda Durston : That's not fair.

  Pete Sandidge : It is what it is. It's just the way I feel.

  Dorinda Durston : Please, Pete, please.

• Dorinda Durston : Pete, is that your plane?

  Pete Sandidge : The B-25 over there that looks like a ghost? Sure it's my plane.

• Dorinda Durston : Surprised?

  Pete Sandidge : You bet I'm surprised. You look shiny as a new propeller!

• Dorinda Durston : I've got the most wonderful news in the world. Only first, give me another kiss, you big moose. A real one.

• Dorinda Durston : I fell asleep. What did you do?

  Pete Sandidge : I listened to you snore and looked at your legs.

  Dorinda Durston : I don't snore and you're a lecherous old man.

• Dorinda Durston : His number's up. I could tell it the minute I saw that plane.

  Al Yackey : Aw, his number ain't gonna be up for a good, long time, honey. He'll probably slip and fall in a bathtub and break his neck when he's 80 years old or so. He's a plane lucky guy. You know that.

• Dorinda Durston : You belong back in 1925 in a flying circus. I can just see you now out at the fairgrounds doing loop-de-loops. You never stayed with your squadron. You're a lone wolf in a service where men fly together. You've got hero hunger and better men than you come a dime a dozen!

• Dorinda Durston : Pete, you're pulling your eyebrows again.

  Pete Sandidge : She loves me.

  Dorinda Durston : Well, stop it.

  Pete Sandidge : She loves me not.

  Dorinda Durston : Stop it, stop it. I'm resigned to your being bald some day, but a bald man without eyebrows looks just like an egg.

• Dorinda Durston : Well, now, look here, wait a minute, my buckaroo. Just how do you plan to stop me?

  Pete Sandidge : Just by saying no.

  Dorinda Durston : That sounds like an order, Pete, and I don't like orders very well. Or, had you forgotten?

  Pete Sandidge : All right, then I'll ask ya. Now, I'm asking you, Dorinda, don't be a pig-headed fool.

  Dorinda Durston : Oh, sweet, sweet, irresistible Pete. Gentle, tactful, clever.

• Dorinda Durston : Let's talk about something else.

  Pete Sandidge : Yeah. You know you got feet like a monkey's I bet you could pick up a dime off a marble floor.

• Dorinda Durston : Pete. We never seem to get a break, do we?

  Pete Sandidge : What are you talkin' about? Meeting you was a break.

• Al Yackey : They tell me you're trying to win this war all by yourself. Nobody ever sees you anymore. You know, all work and no play...

  Dorinda Durston : Makes a girl keep her mind off her troubles.

• Dorinda Durston : It's hard to explain. I - I get such a queer feeling sometimes.

• Ted Randall : I could cook you a kangaroo steak that will drive you crazy.

  Dorinda Durston : How do you cook a kangaroo steak?

  Ted Randall : With wallaby sauce.

• Ted Randall : Don't forget to keep the wine cold.

  Dorinda Durston : And the food hot!

• Dorinda Durston : That was real love, like food and drink and air and water. There's no substitute. You wouldn't want a substitute, would you? Because then, you'd never have the real thing. You'd only have a cheap imitation.