- Well, lack of wherewithal, I guess.
- But that doesn't always cause unhappiness, does it? Not if you're the right kind of man.
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?
- Well, it was years ago. I was only a kid in Duluth.
[...]
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