I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) Quotes

I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . I'll Be Seeing You ended in 1970.

It features Dore Schary as producer, Daniele Amfitheatrof in charge of musical score, and Tony Gaudio as head of cinematography.

I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) is recorded in English language and originally aired in United States. Each episode of I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) is 85 minutes long. I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Ginger Rogers as Mary Marshall, Joseph Cotten as Zachary Morgan, Ginger Rogers as Mrs. Marshall, Shirley Temple as Barbara Marshall, and Ginger Rogers as Mr. Marshall.

I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film) Quotes

Ginger Rogers as Mary Marshall

• (Ginger Rogers) "Bye."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Bye."
• (Ginger Rogers) "617 North Elm Street."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Oh, wait. If, uh, if anybody tried to telephone you, how could they get you?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, uh, my uncle's name is in the telephone book. Henry Marshall."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Henry Marshall? Good. Oh. What's your name?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Mary. Mary; Mary Marshall."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Mary Marshall. Good-bye."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Good-bye."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Wait a minute. Um, if somebody calls and says it's Zachary Morgan, that's me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh. Glad to meet you."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Merry Christmas."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Merry Christmas."

• (Ginger Rogers) "You like this one, don't you, Mary?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "It's lovely."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Then you're going to have it."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, no. Uh-uh."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Now, you listen to me, Mary. You can't wear the same clothes day after day, your soldier boy's going to get tired of them."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, I've been fooling him well enough so far. I've been wearing one blouse after another. I don't need a dress, dear."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Now, Zach's made a big thing of inviting us all to this New Year's Eve party. You can't wear a suit."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Uh-uh. I'll manage."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Henry and I have talked it over. We want you to have a dress."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, Henry will be so disappointed if you don't accept it."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Darling, I'll only be able to wear it once. It'll be out of style in three years."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Then we'll burn it. Miss?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "My niece would like to try on this dress."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, it'll be fine on you."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Go on, dear. Try it on."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, all right. I'll try it on."

• (Unnamed) "I didn't think you were trying to give me the brush. What happened? You know, I thought you were still -"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, I am. They gave me a ten day Christmas vacation."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, good. You gonna be around?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Yes, but Charlie, the fellow I'm with he doesn't know about me, and I'd appreciate it very much if, you know, if you wouldn't -"
• (Unnamed) "Sure, Mary. Forget it."

• (Ginger Rogers) "You must have been looking forward to it, Mary."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I was looking forward to seeing you, Aunt Sarah."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, that's sweet of you, dear."
• (Ginger Rogers) "As a matter of fact, selfish. I've been doing a lot of thinking in the past three years, Aunt Sarah, and --"
• (Ginger Rogers) "What sort of things were you thinking, Mary?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Coming out into the world and -- Even coming here, I had a feeling that -"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Honey, you've got to stop being afraid. You've got to stop feeling that you're branded like people were in the old days. You've done something. You're paying your debt to society. Most people are willing to let it go at that."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I know, Aunt Sarah, but coming out into the world and seeing everybody in uniform, everybody doing something -- I just don't belong. I don't fit in. And dreams that I've had for the future are just impossible."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, most dreams are, Mary. It's just the dreaming that counts. Nobody gets exactly what he wants out of life. One of the first things you learn is to make compromises with your dreams."
• (Ginger Rogers) "But I'm not talking about palaces and rainbows, Aunt Sarah. I'm talking about a home. A home like this with a kitchen and a stove and an icebox, and a husband, and a child."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Yes, I have all that. Yet I used to dream about palaces and rainbows."
• (Ginger Rogers) "But you're happy."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Of course. Because I didn't hold out for too much. I accepted what I thought was second best and made that do. Oh, it's something that everybody learns sooner or later. You have to get used to accepting what you think is second best, and then you find out it's first best after all."

• (Ginger Rogers) "Is the war really like that?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "I guess so."
• (Ginger Rogers) "That's funny."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Why?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "I mean that you should only guess so."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Well, they have experts making those pictures. I guess that's the way they see the war. A beach a mile long, and thousands of soldiers, and tanks, and machine guns and everything. I guess that's the way it is."
• (Ginger Rogers) "But it wasn't that way for you, huh?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "It's just a difference in size. To a guy that's in it, the war's about ten feet wide, and kind of empty. It's you and a couple of fellows in your company, maybe, and maybe a couple of Japs. It's all kind of mixed up. Sometimes it's all full of noise, and sometimes it's quiet. It all depends on what you're thinking about, I guess. It depends on how scared you are, how cold you are, and how wet you are. I guess if you asked a hundred guys what the war's like, they'd all give you a different answer. Mary. You know what?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "What?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "I mean, usually you don't like to talk about it. I never said anything about it before, not to anybody."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I'm sorry, I -"
• (Joseph Cotten) "No. No, I feel kind of good."

• (Ginger Rogers) "You haven't changed, Mary. Not at all."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Thank you, Aunt Sarah. Oh, it's so good to be here."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I'm so glad to have you with us, dear. Awfully glad. Barbara, come on down. You can share Barbara's room."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, dear, I don't want to disturb anybody. I, don't -"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, nonsense. Barbara will love to have you. Here, for heaven's sake, give me your coat. Anyway, it's the guest room, or it was before Barbara was born. Besides, I think it would be a very good thing for Barbara. She's seventeen."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Seventeen?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "And she's pretty, spoiled, and at an age, oh, you know. I think an older girl will be a very good thing for her right now. Like you. Yes, like you. Now, there's a million things to talk about, but first you want to wash up."
• (Shirley Temple) "Hello, Mary. I'm awfully glad to see you."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Hello, Barbara. Why, I never would have known you. She's grown into a beauty."
• (Shirley Temple) "Welcome home."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Take Mary up to your room, dear."
• (Shirley Temple) "Follow me, lady, to my boudoir. Although it's small, not much bigger than a cell. Oh, I'm sorry, Mary."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Look, there's just one thing. We all know that I've been in prison, and I'm going back in eight days. And there's no use pretending it isn't so. It just won't be any good unless everybody says what he thinks, and doesn't try to cover up."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, you're a fine girl, Mary. Now go up and see your room."

• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, I understood, Mary. When Zach said he was a stranger, you felt as if the words were coming from your own lips."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Might have happened to any girl. Could have been just Christmas sentiment. Good night, Mary."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Good night, Uncle Henry."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Good night. Don't forget to turn out the lights, Sarah."
• (Ginger Rogers) "All right, dear. So don't worry about making a scene."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, I'm not worrying about that, Aunt Sarah. I was just wondering if I shouldn't tell him about me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, not for the world."
• (Ginger Rogers) "You don't think so?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, why?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, he trusts me, and it doesn't seem fair."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, there's no reason for it, Mary. He'll only be here for a few days. He's lonely, and you're making things pleasant for him."
• (Ginger Rogers) "That's not the reason I'm seeing him, Aunt Sarah. Because I like him. I like him a lot."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Of course you do, dear, but it isn't as if you were going to marry him."
• (Ginger Rogers) "No. It's not as if I was going to marry him."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I didn't mean it like that, dear."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I know."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Have fun, Mary. See Zach everyday, if you like. Act like any other girl."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I try, Aunt Sarah, but I can't seem to make myself feel like any other girl. I just feel like me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "And that's pretty darn good. Now you have fun."

• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, it feels pretty comfortable to have another man's voice around at Christmastime."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I'm sure Barbara's doing her best to arrange that for you, Henry."
• (Shirley Temple) "Oh, mother."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, darling. Maybe family jokes are in bad taste. They make the guest feel out of place."
• (Joseph Cotten) "No, ma'am. I haven't felt so easy in a long time. This is the best Christmas dinner I ever had. Yesterday, I was a stranger here. I mean, I felt like a prisoner inside myself. Now, just to be in a home like this, with people like you, maybe someplace I can come back to next month, or next year --"

• (Ginger Rogers) "Barbara, what I'm in prison for isn't catching."
• (Shirley Temple) "I'm sorry, Mary, I -- I keep hurting you, and -- I really don't want to."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I guess it is uncomfortable for you to meet somebody who's been in prison. Maybe when you get to know me, you'll feel differently."
• (Shirley Temple) "I want to know you, Mary. Really, I do."
• (Ginger Rogers) "How much do you know about me?"
• (Shirley Temple) "Not much. Mother and Dad still treat me like a child. Everything's a big secret."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I don't think it would hurt for you to know. As a matter of fact, I think it might help. When I was your age, my mother died."
• (Shirley Temple) "Oh, I remember her. Way back when I was young. She used to make clothes for my favorite doll."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Yes, she was wonderful with her hands. And some time after that, my father went north on business. And then, when he died, I was on my own. I got a very good job as a secretary, and my job brought me in contact with a lot of very nice men, one of whom, might have turned out, I thought, to be the one who would give me all the things that you dream about when you're twenty and lonely. One day, when I was called into my boss's office, he invited me to a party in his apartment. He was single, and I started dreaming. Bosses do marry their secretaries. I took what money I'd saved and I bought an evening dress. I thought it was very fancy. I wanted to look good in front of his high class friends. He had sent me an orchid, a white orchid, the first one I'd ever had. I was wearing it. When the door opened, I walked into the biggest apartment I'd ever seen. I thought it was rich and elegant. I'd wanted to impress him, so I got there a little late. I'd wanted to make an entrance all by myself, but nobody else was there. I should have had sense enough then to get out, but I didn't. He'd been drinking a long time before I got there, I guess, and he kept right on. He told me that he hadn't invited anyone else, and that the white orchid, and all that was just his way of getting me up there. I; I tried to talk my way out, and then when that didn't work, I made a break for it. I didn't scream. I was too frightened, I guess. I tried to get away from him, but I couldn't. He seemed to be everywhere. Oh, it was all mixed up like some terrible kind of a dream. Once, I almost got away, when he fell over a chair. But he caught me again, and dragged me back. Then I pushed him as hard as I could, and he fell back through the window. His apartment was on the fourteenth floor."
• (Shirley Temple) "Oh, Mary -- how awful."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Maybe I shouldn't have told you."
• (Shirley Temple) "No, I'm glad you did. But it's wrong. They shouldn't have sent you to prison."
• (Ginger Rogers) "If I'd been lucky enough to get away before he was killed, then there wouldn't have been any crime. But after all, a man was dead. The jury said manslaughter. Guilty. Well, that meant six years."

• (Ginger Rogers) "Are you going home on furlough?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Yeah. Yeah, I'm on furlough. They gave me a furlough."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Is this your first time home since --"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Well, I haven't got any regular home or family. I'm just going to visit. You traveling on business, or --"
• (Ginger Rogers) "No, I'm on vacation. Christmas vacation."
• (Joseph Cotten) "What kind of business are you in? I mean, what sort of work do you do?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, I, uh -- I travel. I'm a traveling saleswom; uh, saleslady."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I never heard any jokes about traveling salesladies. I guess there aren't many. I never would have guessed that's what you did."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, what; what would you have guessed?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Oh, that you were, uh, I don't know -- a secretary or a model maybe, a schoolteacher."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Well, I once was a secretary, and I wanted to be a model. So that would have been pretty good guessing."
• (Joseph Cotten) "You going all the way to L.A.?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "No. No, I haven't much farther to go, as a matter of fact. I'm getting off at Pinehill."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Oh. Oh, well -- Is Pinehill your home?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "No. I'm just visting my uncle."
• (Joseph Cotten) "That's funny. I'm going to Pinehill, too."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, really?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm visiting there. My sister lives in Pinehill."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I bet she'll be very glad to see you."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I hope so. Maybe we'll run into each other there."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Yes."

• (Ginger Rogers) "How much is this dress?"
• (Unnamed) "Sixty-nine dollars."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh? Would you take the tag off, please?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Look, here's thirty dollars. And when my aunt asks you the price, will you tell her that it's thirty-nine instead of sixty-nine dollars?"
• (Unnamed) "It's a bargain."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Thank you."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Miss, how much was that dress?"
• (Unnamed) "Thirty-nine dollars."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Look, I'll give you twenty dollars. When I ask you again, how much it was, you tell me it's nineteen dollars."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Do you like it?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, it's darling on you."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Isn't it sweet?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "It was made for you. Um, Miss, how much is this dress?"
• (Unnamed) "Nineteen dollars."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, that's a wonderful buy."

Joseph Cotten as Zachary Morgan

• (Senator Hugh B. Emmett) "Sergeant, we would like to get the point of view of the soldiers about several things."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Soldiers?"
• (Senator Hugh B. Emmett) "Yes. We would like to know from you what the soldier thinks."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Thinks about what?"
• (Senator Hugh B. Emmett) "Thinks about political issues."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Senator, I don't know. What gives you the idea that just because a fellow puts on a soldier suit he thinks any differently from anybody else?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "What does the soldier think? I tell you, last time some of us voted for Roosevelt, and some of us didn't. Some of us weren't old enough to vote. Some soldiers think labor's got a right to strike, and some soldiers think labor's got no rights at all. A lot of soldiers got one idea about what should happen after war, a lot of soldiers have other ideas. Me? I haven't the slightest notion what a lot of soldiers think. Senator, thanks for the cigar."

• (Joseph Cotten) "Mary, I didn't want to make you cry."
• (Ginger Rogers) "There's nothing wrong with crying at a time like this."
• (Joseph Cotten) "The minute I got on the train, I knew why you didn't tell me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Nothing matters, except that you're here."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I'm terribly ashamed of walking out like that. I need you, Mary. I want to feel that you need me."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, I do. I do."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I'll be right here. I'll be right here waiting. I'll be all well by then. Ready to make a new start, too."

• (Joseph Cotten) "I never could figure out why the pudding never gets burned."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I've never been able to figure that out either. Must be the alcohol in the brandy."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I think."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Personally, I think it's a shame to burn good brandy. That quart I brought home last week was imported cognac."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, don't worry, Henry, I didn't burn up the whole quart."
• (Shirley Temple) "Oh, I wouldn't trust Mom with it, Dad."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Maybe you're right. Remember last year, how Mom got going on just a glass of sherry?"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Now I'm not going to listen to that again."
• (Shirley Temple) "You may not believe this about your dear Aunt Sarah, but last year she got high as a kite."
• (Joseph Cotten) "If they're trying to drag out a family skeleton, Mrs. Marshall, I won't listen to them."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, it's just one of those little things that happen, people start exaggerating."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Exaggerate, my eye. It's as true as I sit here. Last year, Mother and I had a glass of sherry to bring in the new year. And then we went to a little gathering, all the way across town, it was. Mother had her skirt on backwards."
• (Ginger Rogers) "See here, Henry, if you're in such good voice, how about a Christmas carol?"

• (Joseph Cotten) "Mary, I want to tell you why I got mad at that guy in the coffee shop last night, and why I walked away from you after I threw that rock at the lamppost and missed it."
• (Ginger Rogers) "I knew there must be some reason, but you don't have to tell me."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Look, I was brought up in a home, an orphan's home."
• (Ginger Rogers) "That's nothing to be ashamed of."
• (Joseph Cotten) "I'm not. It's not like being in prison, or anything like that."
• (Ginger Rogers) "No."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Well, in the home there was a janitor. This fellow had been in the last war. A young guy. He was a shell shock case. Whenever we could get our hands on any firecrackers, we'd bang them off and laugh at him when he jumped. Well, that fellow in the coffee shop reminded me of the janitor, and they both made me think of myself and what I'd be like in a few years. Only difference is, that now in the hospital, they have a fancy name for it: neuropsychiatric."
• (Ginger Rogers) "The doctors must know a lot more about it now than they did during the last war."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Maybe. They don't know something about me that I know. You see, before I became an engineer, I was an athlete, a pretty good one. I know what my timing used to be, they don't, and it's gone, Mary. Before this happened to me, I could have hit that lamppost all day. I don't know why I'm bothering you with all this. Yes, I do. I know why I'm bothering you. Because I feel so much better when I talk to you. I like to be with you."

Shirley Temple as Barbara Marshall

• (Shirley Temple) "Dad. Dad, I want to ask you a question."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Fine. Fire away."
• (Shirley Temple) "You know, you never told me anything about Mary. I mean, why she was sent to prison, and why she -"
• (Ginger Rogers) "You can find out about that some other time, when you're a little older."
• (Shirley Temple) "But it can't be so secret. I don't see why I shouldn't know."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Barbara, you can find out about that some other time. It's just that Mary made a little mistake, and that's all there is to it."
• (Shirley Temple) "But they don't send people to prison for just doing nothing."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Now, look, Barbara, I'm trying to listen to the radio and work this puzzle, and I can't take on any other jobs at the moment."
• (Shirley Temple) "But, what if my friends ask me about her? What'll I tell them? They'll want to know why -"
• (Ginger Rogers) "Just tell them that Mary is your cousin. From that point on, they can mind their own business. And it seems to me that your business might be helping your mother out in the kitchen."
• (Shirley Temple) "Oh, Dad. Sometimes the way you talk to me, you make me feel like I'm an adopted daughter or something."

• (Shirley Temple) "I was just thinking, that's an awfully nice suit you have on, Mary."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Oh, thank you, Barbara. You were thinking of something else, too."
• (Shirley Temple) "As a matter of fact, I was."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Where can I put this?"
• (Shirley Temple) "I'll take it."
• (Ginger Rogers) "You may as well tell me, so we can both get it off our minds."
• (Shirley Temple) "Well, I -- I just -- Well, you see, I hadn't known that they gave these vacations or furloughs to people that --"
• (Ginger Rogers) "You don't have to be shy about it, Barbara. I didn't know about it either. Till the warden told me that in this state, and a few other states, they give special furloughs to people for good behavior."
• (Shirley Temple) "Well, I think it's wonderful that they have that confidence in you."
• (Ginger Rogers) "Yes. I think so, too."

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