There's Always a Woman (1938)

Melvyn Douglas: William 'Bill' Reardon

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• Sally Reardon : You mean, no wine?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : That's what I mean. No wine.

  Sally Reardon : Not even a tennie-wennie-itsy-bitsy?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Not even a tennie-wennie-itsy-bitsy.

  Sally Reardon : You mean, no wine?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Yeah, that's it, no wine.

  Sally Reardon : Religious scruples?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : No. No, just mathematics. Filet mignon: $3.50. Strawberry parfait 75 cents. Six martinis.

  Sally Reardon : I only had three.

  William 'Bill' Reardon : They're charging me for mine too, you know. And all I've got in my pocket is a 20 dollar bill. Em, you don't happen to have a couple of dollars in your purse, do you?

  Sally Reardon : Money? Why didn't you say so.

• Waiter : Your wife?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : You wanna make anything out of it?

• Sally Reardon : I thought I married a gentleman.

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Well, live and learn.

• William 'Bill' Reardon : Listen, I gave her a week's salary. Why the extra five dollars?

  Sally Reardon : Ten dollars. For being here six months without flirting with you.

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Oh yeah, lady, you've been robbed.

• William 'Bill' Reardon : Tell me something, Snooks. If I'm as smart as you say, how did I happen to fall for a dumb dame like you?

  Sally Reardon : Believe me, I've sat up nights worrying about just that thing.

• William 'Bill' Reardon : What are you signing?

  Sally Reardon : I'm going to get 500 dollars for the story.

  William 'Bill' Reardon : For this story?

  Sally Reardon : No, for the love life of a girl detective.

  [Bill grabs the contract and rips it up] 

  Sally Reardon : Bill, don't be angry. I wasn't going to give them any of the real inside dope.

• William 'Bill' Reardon : See if you can't think up a good menu, for a change!

• Miss Jacobs - Reardon's Secretary : I, I don't mind anything, but your husband shouldn't have called me that name.

  Sally Reardon : What'd you call her, Bill?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : I didn't call her any name.

  Miss Jacobs - Reardon's Secretary : You did too. You called me a stenographer and I'm a private secretary.

• Sally Reardon : Are you angry at something, Bill?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Me? Noooo. What have I to be angry about?

  Sally Reardon : Well, I don't know. You just look like you're ready to sock somebody in the jaw.

  William 'Bill' Reardon : Oh, no. I got over that an hour ago. Now I'm looking for an ax.

• Sally Reardon : [Having fallen back in her chair at the nightclub]  Well, why don't ya pick me up, ya big lummox?

  William 'Bill' Reardon : I picked you up once - now look at me.