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- So I earn 26 dollars a week and you want to get married.
- And I earn 18 and that makes 44.

7 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:09:08 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- When you say that you just make me mad.

- Now look at my own mother, she's never been to the country for more than one day and never had any nice furniture.

- The dream of her life is a davenport that turns into a double bed at night with a crank.

- She's never had a decent dress except what she's made herself, and my old man...

- Hmph. Worn out at 48, and died because he couldn't afford a decent doctor.

- So I earn 26 dollars a week and you want to get married.

- And I earn 18 and that makes 44.

- Sure, sure. And you've got your ma and I've got mine, and then we have a baby and you have to stop working and we're right back at the same old 26 again. Except then there's you and the kid and the two old ladies.

- Oh, but Jimmy, darling...

- Nix honey, nix. They didn't give you wrists like that and hands like that to spoil them scrubbing floors for a dope like me.

- A man's got to look out for himself in this old world and a girl's got to do the same, instead of fooling away her time on a guy like me. Unless he crashes through...

- Oh, you make me tired.

- Then go to bed!

[...]

Christmas in July (1944) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Funny quotes with sound clips from Christmas in July - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on June 25, 1944.

Actors: Dick Powell (Jimmy), Linda Darnell (Betty), Raymond Walburn (Maxford), Lionel Barrymore (Narrator)

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