The Moon's Our Home (1941) Quotes with Sound Clips

The Moon's Our Home (1941)Quotes from The Moon's Our Home, Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1941, adapted after Faith Baldwin's novel, featuring sound clips.

Actors: James Stewart (Anthony Amberton / John Smith), Carole Lombard (Cherry Chester / Sarah Brown), Clara Blandick (Lucy), Verna Felton (Boyce)

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1 Thinking. -What about? -Many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, cabbages and kings. -And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings? Yeah.

— (James Stewart), (Carole Lombard)

2 Marriage should be like a ski jump. Sudden, swift, reckless. Starting on the heights, leaping into the void, never knowing the end, never caring! Breathless, defiant, exhilarating!

— (Carole Lombard)

3 No, no. Marriage is the monkey wrench women throw into the machinery of love. Now, without it, there'd be no past to bother you, no future to worry about, nothing but the present.

— (James Stewart)

4 Oh, I see. The woman's place is in the home. Hallelujah. -That's quite true! -Oh, no, it's not.

— (James Stewart), (Carole Lombard)

5 Oh, to be alone on a mountaintop, alone with the snow, the sunshine, the stars. Where people don't know me. Where I could live and do as I pleased without interference.

— (Carole Lombard)

6 Well, look, going without a hat's good for the hair. -Yeah, I had a friend on my father's side who always went without a hat. He was bald. -Yeah, he probably didn't have any hair to start with.

— (James Stewart), (Carole Lombard)

7 Do you always go without a hat? -Huh? Why? -Well, I've heard of sunstroke. There's probably a moon-stroke, too. -Oh. Yeah. Well, probably.

— (James Stewart), (Carole Lombard)

8 Give me the simple primitive woman, the woman of long silences... -Well, I'm only a publisher, but I'll see what I can do.

— (James Stewart)

9 Have you ever been hit on the head with a high heel? -No, and I won't! -That's what you think!

— (Carole Lombard)

10 You've got green eyes... cat eyes! And you're stubborn and bad-tempered! And what's more, you're ungrateful! -Ohhhh, he loves me.

— (James Stewart), (Carole Lombard)

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