Quotes from A Foreign Affair (1948)
11 quotes
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Phoebe Frost:
How do you know so much about women's clothing?
Captain John Pringle: My mother wears women's clothing.
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John Lund
(as Captain John Pringle)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Phoebe Frost:
Really, Colonel Plummer... you should have your brakes relined!
Col. Rufus J. Plummer: [as she leaves, he scratches his nose with the middle finger, apparently flipping her off. it WAS Billy Wilder, after all]
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Millard Mitchell
(as Col. Rufus J. Plummer)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Phoebe Frost:
There. Now we're getting someplace. I wonder what holds up that dress...
Captain John Pringle: Must be that German willpower.
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John Lund
(as Captain John Pringle)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Phoebe Frost:
We'll go there right now!
Captain John Pringle: Where? Phoebe Frost: To the files! Captain John Pringle: In the middle of the night? Shouldn't we get permission? Phoebe Frost: Did we get permission to land in Normandie? Let's go!
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Jean Arthur
(as Phoebe Frost)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Erika von Schluetow:
[singing] Want to buy some illusions? Slightly used, just like new. Such romantic illusions, and they're all about you. I sell them all for a penny, they make pretty souvenirs. Take my lovely illusions, some for laughs, some for tears.
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Marlene Dietrich
(as Erika Von Schluetow)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Erika von Schluetow:
Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here.
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Marlene Dietrich
(as Erika Von Schluetow)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Erika von Schluetow:
Want to buy an illusion?
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Marlene Dietrich
(as Erika Von Schluetow)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Erika von Schluetow:
We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs... yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.
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Marlene Dietrich
(as Erika Von Schluetow)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Captain John Pringle:
Don't tell me it's subversive to kiss a Republican!
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John Lund
(as Captain John Pringle)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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Jean Arthur
(as Phoebe Frost)
in
A Foreign Affair
(1948)
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