You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Adolphe Menjou: Eduardo Acuña

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• Robert Davis : When do I start dancing?

  Eduardo Acuña : You do not start dancing.

  Robert Davis : But didn't you come to see me about...?

  Eduardo Acuña : About one of my daughters. The one you so gallantly referred to as "the inside of a refrigerator"?

  Robert Davis : Oh... but, I'm afraid I don't follow you.

  Eduardo Acuña : She thinks you're in love with her.

  Robert Davis : Would it be rude of me to inquire if there is any insanity in your family?

• Lita Acuña : Just think Papa, you've been married longer than we've lived!

  Eduardo Acuña : I consider that a very fortunate coincidence, my dear.

• Xavier Cugat : [Cugat stumbles in, obviously listening at the door]  Something in my eye.

  Eduardo Acuña : A keyhole, no doubt.

• Mrs. Delfina Acuña : I read in a book that a salmon swims miles and miles to find a mate. And Maria has swum long enough.

  Eduardo Acuña : Maria is going to wait until the right man comes along.

  Mrs. Delfina Acuña : Why should she? I didn't.

• 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 was just thinking, maybe...

  Eduardo Acuña : No, you do the dancing, I'll do the thinking.

• Eduardo Acuña : Now, what is it about that girl that made you go, "errrrrr"? She's beautiful!

  Robert Davis : She's beautiful, all right; but, she has a personality like the inside of a refrigerator.

  Eduardo Acuña : In addition, to which, she is my daughter!

  Robert Davis : She is? She is!

  Eduardo Acuña : She is. Now, what is it that you wanted of me?

  Robert Davis : Just your permission to go out and hang myself.

• Eduardo Acuña : Maybe there is insanity in the female branch of the family. They've conceived a misguided affection for you!

  Robert Davis : Only because they think I'm in love with Maria.

  Eduardo Acuña : Why the mere mention of the word love between you and my daughter makes my flesh creep!

• Eduardo Acuña : That's very nice. The wedding dress and the lingerie, I approve.

• Eduardo Acuña : It's my invariable rule to distrust women's tastes in clothes.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : That's why he asked me to come by.

• Juan Castro : First time I ever heard of a father selecting a trousseau.

  Eduardo Acuña : You know as well as I do that women dress for one another and not for men. Delfina's mother decked her out in fluff when I married her and she's been decked out in fluff ever sense. Does your son like fluff?

  Mrs. Maria Castro : My dear, for the first few weeks he won't even know what Julia's wearing.

• Eduardo Acuña : This is a fine way to act on your sister's wedding day. Now, run along and fix your pretty faces.

• Eduardo Acuña : I'm very difficult to live with.

  Mrs. Delfina Acuña : Oh no you're not darling. You're really just a little boy and I love you.

• Eduardo Acuña : She hasn't fallen in love since she was 15, when she got starry eyed about that silly man on a white horse.

  Mrs. Maria Castro : Lochinvar?

  Eduardo Acuña : Yes, you'd think she would have outgrown a tin hero by now. She's probably waiting around for a myth to come to life!

• Mrs. Maria Castro : Will you stop thinking of Maria as a child. She's a woman.

  Eduardo Acuña : And I know women. They all fall in love with an illusion.

• Eduardo Acuña : Jumping blue blazes!

• Eduardo Acuña : You let that jumping jack in my office. You'll pay for this with every drop of your anemic blood! You nincompoop. You worm! You're fired! Now, get out and never come back - you diddling dimwit!

  Fernando : Diddling dimwit?

• 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.

• Eduardo Acuña : Will you three stop interfering with Maria's life. Will you leave that to me!

• Eduardo Acuña : A woman doesn't mind you lying to her when you compliment her, but, she'd never forgive a lie that made her a moonstruck ninny.

• Eduardo Acuña : My boy, a woman't advice isn't worth listening to; but, any man who doesn't take it - is a fool. And that's me.

  Robert Davis : I've been pretty much of a dope myself.

• Eduardo Acuña : I have an instinct for what goes on...

  Robert Davis : For what goes on in a woman's heart, I know.

  Eduardo Acuña : I know this: every woman wants to be swept off her feet and carried away.