The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Eugene Pallette: Lucius K. Winfield

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Quotes 

• Steve Collins : This is Californie, they were married by a justice of the peace from Nevada, so legally they're not married.

  Lucius K. Winfield : Well if they're not married, that's fine.

  Steve Collins : But they THINK they're married! And they're flying back to Los Angeles for their honeymoon!

  Lucius K. Winfield : They think they are and they're not?

  [laughs] 

  Lucius K. Winfield : That's the funniest thing I've heard in years! They think they are and they're not! And they've gone back for their honeymoon?

  [stops laughing] 

  Lucius K. Winfield : What am I laughing about? That's my daughter.

• Lucius K. Winfield : Well, I don't mind having a fortune hunter in the family, but I'll be darned if I'll stand for a piano player!

• Allen Brice : What's wrong with me, may I ask?

  Lucius K. Winfield : We've had horse thieves in our family, but no tenors!

• 3rd Reporter : This morning Joan was married to Steve Collins, the pilot who abducted her. The newlyweds confided in me that they are going to South America on their honeymoon. They are probably flying over Rio De Janiero now, where beneath the unbelievably blue sky, with the strumming of guitars...

  [voice fades out under Steve's voice] 

  Steve Collins : Oh Peetah?

  Lucius K. Winfield : Yes son?

  Steve Collins : A hundred and eighteen pounds.

  Joan Winfield : Oh, a hundred and ten!

  Steve Collins : A hundred and eighteen, and at ten dollars a pound, that's eleven-hundred eighty ya owe me.

  Lucius K. Winfield : Ok son.

  [Lucius and Pop laugh] 

  Lucius K. Winfield : One hundred and eighteen pounds: eleven-hundred and eighty dollars. Wh-what am I laughin' at? This is not deductable from my income tax.

  [the scene splits to Joan brushing her hair by the window as Steve howls realistically like a wolf while lying in bed - they both smile and the scene fades out]