- Well, lack of wherewithal, I guess.
- But that doesn't always cause unhappiness, does it? Not if you're the right kind of man.
— Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), Macaulay Connor (James Stewart)
10 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:28:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Well, my father taught English history. I'm Mike to my friends.
- Of whom you have many, I'm sure.
- English history. It's always fascinated me: Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper.
- Where did he teach? I mean, your father.
- Oh, a little high school in South Bend, Indiana.
- South Bend. It sounds like dancing, doesn't it? You must have had a most happy childhood there.
- No, I didn't mean it that way.
- Well, lack of wherewithal, I guess.
- But that doesn't always cause unhappiness, does it? Not if you're the right kind of man.
- George Kittredge, my fiancé, never had anything either, and he...
- You mean you were, but now you're divorced? Well, come now, surely you're not ashamed of it.
- Of course I'm not ashamed of it.
- What?
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