The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Marjorie Reynolds: Melody Allen

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• Melody Allen : [turning on the house's electric lights]  What an astonishing idea... probably got it from Ben Franklin, he's always inventing things.

• Melody Allen : Here's a horse pistol.

  [Gives him the gun. Horatio turns to the horse behind him] 

  Horatio Prim : Here, this is for you. Now what do I shoot with?

• Horatio Prim : Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!

  Melody Allen : How can that be?

  Horatio Prim : I don't know, they say only the good die young.

• Melody Allen : Horatio, be patient.

  Horatio Prim : Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my Nora has been waiting on me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!

• Melody Allen : I need help.

  Horatio Prim : [With his head sticking out of a trunk]  What do you think I need? Would you please me get out of this overcoat?

• Melody Allen : This is the first pleasure I've had in 165 years.

• Melody Allen : [Tom's voice is coming through Emily]  Horatio, why can't I see him?

  Horatio Prim : You can't, you poor kid. You see, he's got his wings, and we're still grounded.

• Melody Allen : You know no self-respecting ghosts do any haunting before midnight.

  Horatio Prim : Alright, I'll wait. But tonight, I haunt!

• Melody Allen : [picks up a book]  Tom Danbury's memoirs.

  Horatio Prim : His grandmas?