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Helen Broderick

Helen Broderick
(as Madge Hardwick)

Dale Tremont: Madge, have you any objections if I scare your husband so that he'll never look at another woman?
Madge Hardwick: Dale, no husband is ever too scared to look.
From Top Hat

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire
(as Jerry Travers)

Horace Hardwick: You know how wives are.
Jerry Travers: No I don't. How are they?
From Top Hat

Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell
(as Carmen Espinosa)

Carmen Espinosa: All my life I have heard about you.
Doña Sol des Muire: What have you heard?
Carmen Espinosa: Shall I be frank?
Doña Sol des Muire: Please do!
Carmen Espinosa: I've heard you've been all over the world, that you speak many languages, and that you've known a great many men...
Doña Sol des Muire: Go on!
Carmen Espinosa: I've never been out of Andalucia, I speak only one language, and I've had only one man. Maybe that's why I want so much to keep him.
Doña Sol des Muire: Senora Gallardo, is there anything I can offer you?
Carmen Espinosa: Yes, my husband!

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom
(as Charles Dreyfus)

[phone rings; Dreyfus picks it up]
Dreyfus: Commissioner Dreyfus... Ah, yes, my darling... I was just about to call you. I'm on my way. I've got the cheese and the beaujolais... What? [laughs] ... My love. Kiss the children for me... hmm? [intercom buzzes] Hold on. [covers phone mouthpiece; answers intercom] Yes?
intercom: Your wife is on the other line.
Dreyfus: Tell her I'm out of town.

Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland
(as Melanie Hamilton)

Melanie Hamilton: Whatever happens, I'll love you just as I do now until I die.


Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie
(as Balthasar / Narrator)

Sheik Ilderim: [about his wives] I've got six... no, seven.
Balthasar: I have counted eight, and that is because he is traveling. At home, he has more.
From Ben-Hur

Teresa Wright

Teresa Wright
(as Peggy Stephenson)

Peggy Stephenson: I've made up my mind.
Al Stephenson: Good girl.
Milly Stephenson: To do what?
Peggy Stephenson: I'm going to break that marriage up! I can't stand it seeing Fred tied to a woman he doesn't love and who doesn't love him. Oh, it's horrible for him. It's humiliating and it's killing his spirit. Somebody's got to help him.

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