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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

CastCary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Year released1947
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Judge Margaret Turner tells her teenage sister Susan, referring to Mr. Roberts, "He’s says you’re the first student he’s ever had to define a triangle as two women crazy about one man." (0:04)

Margaret tells assistant district attorney Tommy Chamberlain, "Uncle Matt has a personal life beyond his job as court psychiatrist..." (0:07)

Artist Richard Nugent tells Susan, "When I was 10, my mother and father had a double suicide pact..." (0:19)

Margaret tells Susan, "Last week you wanted to be a psychiatrist..."
Susan: ”... you’ll probably make him pass a lie detector test first.” (0:22)

Radio D.J.: "And now we bring you Del Minelli and that sensational swoon tune “Fast Ride in a Patrol Wagon.”" (0:30)

Margaret and Susan’s uncle Matt: "Mr. Nugent, I am the court psychiatrist."
Nugent: ”Come back in an hour. I’ll be crazy by then.”
Matt: ”We call it a manifestation of the Oedipus complex. As Menninger so clearly points out, traumatic events seem to...” (0:33)

Margaret tells Richard, "You see, I’m a little worried about Susan."
Richard, referring to Chamberlain: ”All I did was punch him in the nose.”
Margaret: ”Mr. Nugent, please don’t have any illusions about this matter.”
Matt: ”She means as head of the psychiatric clinic I’ve recommended you as a vital therapy measure.” (0:38)

Richard tells Susan, referring to basketball, "Crazy about it."
Susan: ”... certain athletes are selfishly concerned with their own problems...” (0:41)

Susan’s admirer Jerry tells Richard, "When I saw you tonight, my first instinct was to take a poke at you." (0:47)

Richard tells Susan, "... everyone now has the crazy idea that you’re in love with me." (0:48)

Richard tells Margaret, "Don’t worry." (0:53)

Margaret asks Richard, "Are you out of your mind?" (0:55)

Margaret, referring to Richard: "I’m beginning to worry about him." (1:01)

Margaret tells Matt, "Optical illusions have been known to... or the power of suggestion through susan... "
”... how simple problems become when you don’t let your emotions run away with you...” (1:06)

Richard tells Chamberlain, referring to Susan, "I’m madly in love with her." (1:11)

Margaret tells Richard, "Well, my family weren’t quite that impulsive." (1:15)

Chamberlain tells the others, referring to Richard, "... this man told me he’s madly in love and only in love with Susan." (1:21)

Margaret tells Matt, "You and your psychology." (1:23)

Matt tells Margaret and Susan, "... you’re both hysterical." (1:25)

Margaret tells Matt, "I’m not interested in any more of your psychological mumbo jumbo."
Matt: ”Look at it from the emotional point of view.”
Margaret: ”I don’t deal in emotions... the conclusions I draw from the facts are depressing.”
Matt: ”Well, depressing or not...” (1:27)

Richard tells Matt, "I deal in emotions, and my emotions tell me to get out of here. What do your emotions tell you?" (1:28)

Matt tells a police officer, "I’m the city psychiatrist."
”I’m observing a patient.”
Referring to Chamberlain: ”He thinks that he’s the assistant district attorney.” (1:31)

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