Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Paulette Goddard: Anita Dixon

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• Anita Dixon : All those years with all the others, I've shut my eyes and thought of you.

• Georges Iscovescu : [having just let Anita know that he prefers the company of Emmy]  You've got enough money to get you back to New York. I'll find you there when I'm ready.

  Anita Dixon : Thanks! You just stand right in the middle of Times Square ... and whistle!

• Anita Dixon : If you carry a torch long enough, it burns out... my hands are scorched.

• Anita Dixon : For years I've loved him, just as you do. Only there's this difference, I'm his sort. I'm dirt; but, so is he. We belong together.

• Georges Iscovescu : Your husband?

  Anita Dixon : No. No, O'Shaughnessy was a jockey from Caliente. Five foot three. Once over the border, I went to a judge. I said, a woman wants a man, not a radiator cap! Divorce granted, fifty dollars.

• Anita Dixon : Hello, Georges.

  Georges Iscovescu : What are you doing here?

  Anita Dixon : Your door was unlocked. I just dropped in to borrow a cup of sugar.

• Anita Dixon : I walked out on him, Georges. He wanted to buy me a pair of earrings. Suddenly, I couldn't stand his fingers another minute.

• Georges Iscovescu : What do you want?

  Anita Dixon : I've been thinking about you all day. The way you used to hold me away from you when we danced. Those gigolo eyes of yours. You cold, selfish...

  Georges Iscovescu : Oh?

  Anita Dixon : Haven't you ever loved anybody in your life?

  Georges Iscovescu : I want you to go, Anita.

  Anita Dixon : Georges...

  Georges Iscovescu : You're wasting my time.

• Anita Dixon : I'll give you anything. Anything you want.

  Georges Iscovescu : Anything, anything?

  Anita Dixon : Anything.

• Anita Dixon : Start with champagne, it will be champagne all the way!

  Georges Iscovescu : [Takes a sip of the champagne]  I hope it will be a better vintage.

  Anita Dixon : It will be.

• Anita Dixon : Only the very rich will get a crack at Georges and Anita. We'll be very expensive, I'm afraid.

  Georges Iscovescu : They can deduct us from their income tax.

  Anita Dixon : You make a wonderful deduction.

• Anita Dixon : Isn't he wonderful! He certainly knows how to pluck at a heart string.

• Anita Dixon : He married you to pass that date. For the same reason that I married my little American and with the same ring. Just take a look inside at the engraving. "To Toots, For Keeps."

• Anita Dixon : I know what you're thinking, "This woman's a tramp and she's in love with him." Well, I am a tramp! And I am in love with him!

• Anita Dixon : You think you're a teacher. Why, you're a school girl that's learned life out of a book.

• Anita Dixon : Why are you so quiet? Well, if you hate me so much, why don't you say it! Well, go on, hit me! I'd much rather...