I'm to start the first of the year. We'll leave right after Christmas.
3 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:10:24.137 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- They'll all be safe with me. I've got 12 guns in my room.
- You'll be back by Thanksgiving, Mr. Smith. We've ordered the turkey.
- What?
- New York? I don't believe it. I simply don't believe it.
- I'm to start the first of the year. We'll leave right after Christmas.
- I thought we'd all like to have Christmas in St. Louis.
- It will take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls from the cemetery.
- Come back here, you two. There'll be no packing as yet.
- There are a great many things to talk over and I must say you two are being very cool about it.
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