Two Thousand Women (1944)
Phyllis Calvert: Freda Thompson
Quotes
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Mrs. Hadfield : You must be dying for a cup of tea, you poor things.
Freda Thompson : You've got some tea?
Mrs. Hadfield : I exchanged a pair of corsets for a quarter of a pound, last week.
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Bridie Johnson : For six months I've put up with that. Listening to her talk like the muck she used to write.
Freda Thompson : Her smack at my career.
Bridie Johnson : Career? Sob sister on the yellow rag of a paper. Some career.
Freda Thompson : I place that slightly above a twice-night strip teaser in a third rate music hall.
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Freda Thompson : Thank heavens. I was afraid I'd get landed with little love hungry.
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Freda Thompson : A rat is about to enter the trap of the oldest cheese in the world.
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Freda Thompson : That's the way the great big world is round, ducky.
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Freda Thompson : I think that I once had a crush on girl like that at school.
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Freda Thompson : You know, there's something very odd about you.
Rosemary Brown : In what way?
Freda Thompson : For a girl whose been in a prison cell for six months, passing a mirror without looking in it.
Rosemary Brown : I didn't dare.
Freda Thompson : Perhaps you're right!
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Maud Wright : You mind if I sit down? The old varicose veins, you know. You think you're gonna like it here?
Freda Thompson : I think we might.
Maud Wright : Yeah, that's what they all say the first day. Here, have a fag.
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Freda Thompson : What's bothering you? Never undressed in front of others before?
Rosemary Brown : No, it's - it's just that I'd rather bath on my own.
Freda Thompson : Wouldn't we all. You know, you'll offend them if you'll back out now, with all the trouble they've taken. Snap out of it kid. Strip and become a popular figure!
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Freda Thompson : I've never heard anything so stinkingly disgusting and stinkingly fantastic and just plain stinking in all my life!
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Freda Thompson : If their hair's down and their teeth are in, there's a man in the room.
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Freda Thompson : I think he's rather good looking. Or, isn't he? Maybe it comes with being cooped up here for a year.
Rosemary Brown : He's got rather a nice forehead.
Freda Thompson : Well, maybe we better leave him there and get to bed.
Rosemary Brown : Do you think if I undid his collar it would help him breathe more freely?
Freda Thompson : I shouldn't think so. But, you can try if you like. - - Does he got any hair on his chest?
Rosemary Brown : Oh, for goodness sake, Freda.
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Freda Thompson : Aw, little passion fruit! Wanting to know where the men are, sweetheart?
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Freda Thompson : Then it's up to us!
Maud Wright : All we need is the act to finish the concert.
Freda Thompson : It's got to be something sensational. If one of those officers leaves the hall before the show's finished, our plan won't work.
Mrs. Hadfield : I - I don't know if its proper to suggest this, but supposing we could persuade Bridie to - to divest herself of her clothes, as I believe she did on the Paris stage.
Mrs. Hope Latimer : Mrs. Hadfield!
Nellie Skinner : Well, I don't know.
Maud Wright : She's got it. Striptease! No man ever leaves before the last veil drops.
Mrs. Hope Latimer : I refuse to be a party to it!
Mrs. Hadfield : She'd be exposing herself for patriotic reasons, you know.
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Freda Thompson : What can that fellow mean to you anyway?
Bridie Johnson : How can you know what he means to me?
Freda Thompson : I've a rough idea: three hectic nights, a half a dozen aspirin and here's to the next time.
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Freda Thompson : Write her a note and I'll take it up to her. Tell her you just heard what she's doing to help you and you didn't realize what a sacrifice she was making.
Jimmy Moore : Do you think she'll believe that?
Freda Thompson : A woman in love will believe anything.
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Freda Thompson , Rosemary Brown , Maud Wright , Mrs. Tatmarsh , Margaret Long , Mrs. Hope Latimer , Nellie Skinner , Mrs. Burtshaw , Annette , Girl in the Show : [singing] There'll always be an England, While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small, Beside a field of grain, There'll always be an England, And England shall be free, If England means as much to you, As England means to me.
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Bridie Johnson : What did you do before the war?
Rosemary Brown : Nothing really.
Bridie Johnson : You must've done something - everybody does something.
Freda Thompson : If she doesn't want to tell us, that's her affair. If you ask me the sooner we forget the past the better.
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Bridie Johnson : Do I exist?
Freda Thompson : You do but I feel it's a mistake. This is Bridie Johnson, known to half Paris, the male half, as Bubbles Kelly.