You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Rita Hayworth: Maria Acuña

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• Eduardo Acuña : What's gotten into you, Maria? Nice girls don't act this way.

  Maria Acuña : [naughtily]  Nice girls don't feel the way I do.

  Eduardo Acuña : Why, you're brazen!

  Maria Acuña : How could I be... with a heart like an ice cube?

• Robert Davis : I'll admit my attempt at conversation wasn't so hot. Shall I try again? It's a nice day, isn't it? The air is nice. And there seems to be an abundance of it.

  [sarcastically] 

  Robert Davis : Say, look, would you mind very much if I tear myself away from you?

  Maria Acuña : No.

• Julia Acuña - the Bride : You'll be the next bride in the family, Maria.

  Maria Acuña : Oh, no! Not me!

  Lita Acuña : Oh, but you have to be! Papa made it very clear that we can't get married until after you do!

  Cecy Acuña : He says its our family tradition that the girls have to be disposed of: one, two, three, four.

• Lita Acuña : You don't know what it's like to be so much in love that - you cry all night.

  Maria Acuña : You're right there.

  Cecy Acuña : It's all right for you to talk. You can turn men down by the dozens! But...

  Lita Acuña : Because you've got an ice cube for a heart!

• Maria Acuña : Oh, you should read what he wrote to me. No. No, on second thought, I don't think your heart could stand it.

  Eduardo Acuña : Bosh! Anybody can write a love letter.

  Maria Acuña : Ha! I'd like to see you try it.

• Eduardo Acuña : That gleam in your eye has nothing to do with ice cubes. It's predatory!

  Maria Acuña : Maybe you're right.

• Maria Acuña : I like his smile - the twinkle in his eye.

  Cecy Acuña : Remember Mama's advice: don't frighten him with your intelligence.

  Lita Acuña : Just act simple - and mysterious.

• Robert Davis : Look, little lady, as they'd say in Brooklyn: I can't bat in your league. I'm a plain, ordinary guy from Omaha, Nebraska. Just an old fashioned, every day, Midwesterner. Why, my grandfather was a cattle raiser.

  Maria Acuña : So was mine!

  Robert Davis : But, you're streamlined, you're today. Sister, I was raised amongst the grasshoppers. I am strictly from corn!

  Maria Acuña : [singing]  I am not such a clever one about the latest fads, I admit I was never one adored by local lads, Not that I ever tried to be a saint...

• Maria Acuña : Am I the first girl you never kissed?

• Lita Acuña : Oh Maria!

  Cecy Acuña : Oh Maria! Isn't he just wonderful?

  Lita Acuña : How'd you make out?

  Maria Acuña : The first time in my life I ever really wanted a man to kiss me - and he had something else to do. But, the next time, it's going to be different.

• Robert Davis : We were just running over a thing from Harlem. But, I don't suppose you ever heard of Harlem down here.

  Maria Acuña : Isn't that where the zoot suit with the reet pleat comes from?

  Robert Davis : [surprised]  Yeah.

• Maria Acuña : I can't forgive him for the things he did to make me fall in love with him.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : What about all the things you did to make him fall in love with you? When you've got a fish hooked, haul him in.

• Maria Acuña : [final lines]  Lochinvar? Never heard of him.

  Robert Davis : Darling, that's all I wanted to know!