Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 [last lines]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: All right, I`m sorry I pinched you.
Anne Terry: Honest?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Hm-hmm.
Anne Terry: You`ll never do it again?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Never.
Anne Terry: Promise?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Hm-hmm.
[Jonny leans forward as if to kiss Anne]
Anne Terry: JONNY! Anne Terry: You told me you`d have that picture destroyed!
Jonathan Reynolds: Destroyed? If I`d done that, they`d never have seen it.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They?
Jonathan Reynolds: Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They`re gone! I mean... they`ve gone?
Jonathan Reynolds: Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.
[Jonny drags Anne off the train yet again]
Railway Porter: Lady, the next time you ain`t goin` no place, why don`t you take a plane!
[a waiter brings Jonathan Sr. an enormous, fruit-fillled cocktail]
Anne Terry: What`s that?
Jonathan Reynolds: It`s a Reynolds Special.
Anne Terry: Oh, but you shouldn`t be... what`s in it?
Jonathan Reynolds: Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It`s horrible.
Anne Terry: Then why do you drink it.
Jonathan Reynolds: It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and make me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good.
[Jonny is still chasing Anne around his living room]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: If you hear something snap, don`t turn around - it`ll be your neck.
[Jonny angrily chases Anne around his living room]
Anne Terry: Going around pinching people at your age.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: When I get three seconds older, I`m going to start punching people.
[Jonny tries to convince his father that Anne hates him]
Jonathan Reynolds: What did she call me?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator.
Dr. Harvey: Jonathan I have a very pleasant surprise for you!
Jonathan Reynolds: How long will you be gone?
Jonathan Reynolds: Has Doctor Harvey hidden my cigars?
Roberts: Yes, sir.
Jonathan Reynolds: Have you hidden my cigars from Doctor Harvey?
Roberts: Yes, sir.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, I think you have a nice room. It`s... different.
Anne Terry: Uh-huh. On a clear day you can see all the way across it.
Jackie Donovan: I was just telling you about the fellow I used to go with. Turns out he was fickle - he married his fiancee.
Jonathan Reynolds: The trouble with being sick is you have to associate with doctors.
[Jonny drags Anne off the train to pose as his fiancee again, leaving her friends open-mouthed]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Come on, I`ll give you another fifty dollars!
Jenny: Well, what do you know!
Jackie Donovan: Don`t worry, Jenny, it`s platonic. He wants her for his father.
[Doctor Harvey disposes of Jonathan Sr.`s forbidden cigar]
Jonathan Reynolds: Hey, that`s a two-dollar cigar!
Dr. Harvey: Where`d you get it?
Anne Terry: Don`t look at me - I smoke a pipe.
[two tycoons leave Anne a paltry tip]
Anne Terry: This must be a new five-dollar coin they`re putting out... it looks like the same old dime to me.
[to his dying father]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, say, the fishing in Mexico - there`s nothing like it. It`s not really fishing... it`s kind of big game hunting. They have fish with teeth and horns - a throwback to the buffalo. You go out in a boat and the fish charge at you. You just got to catch `em in self-defense. You and I and two machine guns are going down there next month.
[praying]
Newspaper Editor: As long as he has to go, please let him go no later than 9:20 - that dirty Herald has been getting all the breaks
[phone rings]
Newspaper Editor: Yeah? What do you mean he isn`t dead yet? Frank, I gotta have some action!
[examing old newspaper photographs of Jonathan Reynolds Sr]
First assistant editor: Well, his inheritance tax ought to make the country even.
Second assistant editor: He was born too late. Two hundred years ago, he would have been a pirate - Captain Kidd, himself!
Third assistant editor: Look at that stomach. I saw him at a banquet once. He didn`t order a steak - he ordered a cow!
[first lines]
Newspaper Editor: Ain`t it pretty!
[shows staff the newspaper`s front page mock-up with screamer headline "JONATHAN REYNOLDS DEAD"]
Trivia
The star-making five-year association of Deanna Durbin, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster ended following this film. After Mr. Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM, Miss Durbin went on suspension between October 16, 1941 and early February 1942 for refusing to appear in "They Lived Alone," planned to be directed by Mr. Koster. Ultimately, the project was canceled when Deanna and Universal settled their differences. In the agreement, Universal conceded to Deanna the approval of her directors, stories and songs.
Of Deanna Durbin`s 21 features released between 1936 and 1948, only this film opened at Manhattan`s famed Radio City Music Hall, starting October 2, 1941.
In the film`s opening scene, an assistant newspaper editor comments that if Jonathan Reynolds Sr. had lived two centuries earlier, he would have made a great pirate - "Captain Kidd himself". Three years later, Charles Laughton, who played Jonathan Reynolds Sr., would play the title role in Captain Kidd (1945) and again in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952).
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