Since You Went Away (1944)
Actors:
William B. Davidson (actor),
John Derek (actor),
Lloyd Corrigan (actor),
Walter Baldwin (actor),
Joseph Cotten (actor),
Robert Anderson (actor),
James Carlisle (actor),
James Bush (actor),
Lionel Barrymore (actor),
Albert Bassermann (actor),
Irving Bacon (actor),
Wallis Clark (actor),
Eddie Borden (actor),
George Chandler (actor),
Jimmie Dodd (actor),
Plot: While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
Keywords: african-american, airfield, artist, barn, based-on-novel, birthday, bowling, bulldog, cake, cat
Genres:
Drama,
Romance,
War,
Taglines: Great! . . . A Story So Warm . . . So Human . . . So Real . . . you'll wish it might never end! With seven great stars who were never greater! The four most important words since Gone With the Wind-- SINCE YOU WENT AWAY!
Quotes:
Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: I know! Why don't we take somebody into the house? You know, a roomer!::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, well, if you're going to throw away aces, Jane, that's fine with me.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: But Mother, listen to me, why shouldn't we rent a room? There's such a terrible shortage.::Jane Deborah Hilton: Go away. Down with five.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: It's perfectly ridiculous, Brig. A stranger in our home. Where you get your ideas is beyond me.::Jane Deborah Hilton: Certainly it's ridiculous. It's communism, that's what it is!::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Oh, pooh! We could get an officer maybe. And it might be sort of like having Pop back.::Jane Deborah Hilton: An officer? You know, Mother, I think maybe she's right. I understand there's not a room to be had in town. It might be very patriotic of us to take an officer into our house.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Patriotism hasn't anything to do with it. You're just crazy about uniforms, that's all. Ha! Patriotic!::Jane Deborah Hilton: I think we should do everything we can for our soldiers. That's being patriotic, I -::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Brig, Jane, now that's enough. Do you want to finish this game, or don't you?::Jane Deborah Hilton: 102. It's a blitz.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Turn out the dining room lights, Brig.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Suppose Pop were looking for a room in some crowded city like this.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Hurry up, Jane, it can't be that hard to figure out.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: And suppose there were a nice family like ours that had three bedrooms for three people. Don't you think it would be just malicious of them not to want to rent a room to Pop?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Well, Jane?::Jane Deborah Hilton: I won almost $6,000. 592 points at $10 a point.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: All right, deduct it from what you owe me.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: And poor Pop, sleeping in the park!::Mrs. Anne Hilton: All right, all right. Pop is sleeping in the park, and the people are all malicious, and we decide to rent him a room. Now you satisfied?::Jane Deborah Hilton: You will, Mother? You'll do it?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: I didn't say I'd do it. I'll think about it.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: I just knew you couldn't be mean like those characters in that other city. I wonder how much we can get for Jane's room.::Jane Deborah Hilton: My room?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: [on the phone] How much will that be for three days? What? Brig, turn that thing off, I can't hear. I'm awfully sorry. Yes. Will this get into the early edition? Yes. Fireplace and bay window. Oh, all right, put in "homey atmosphere."::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Mother! Mother! Wait, please!::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Keep quiet, Brig. Would you send the bill to this address, please? Thank you.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Mother, you don't mean you're going to rent *your* room?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Of course I am, that's the room that will bring the most money. I'll take your room, and you can double up with Jane.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: But Mother, you're not going to put somebody in Pop's room? Oh, I didn't mean that.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Now, you wouldn't want those characters in that other city to put Pop in anything but their best room, would you?::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: But that's different. He's Pop.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Good morning. Mrs. Hilton, I presume?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes.::Colonel William G. Smollett: May I be permitted to observe that this is the first house I've found in this godforsaken community that doesn't smell of cabbage.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Well, it does sometimes.::Colonel William G. Smollett: I was given to understand at the office of the Purchasing Division, to which I have the misfortune to be attached, that you had a room for rent.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, but I specified an officer. You see, my husband -::Colonel William G. Smollett: My name is Smollett, William G., Colonel, United States Army, retired. Retired, I might add, by virtue of certain fatuous opinions held in the War Department which judge a man's usefulness neither by his experience nor his ability, but by the number of years since he was weaned.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: [dog growls and barks] Soda. Soda!::Colonel William G. Smollett: There was nothing in the information I was furnished, madam, which indicated that you had children and domestic pets.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Well, I'm sorry, but they go with the house.::Colonel William G. Smollett: We won't discuss it. With your permission, madam, may we dispense with further conversation? I should like to inspect the room.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Certainly. Just follow me. I do hope you'll forgive me if I've been long-winded.::Colonel William G. Smollett: Not at all, madam. Through a full, and somewhat protracted existence, I have learned to accept the natural tendency of all women to be garrulous.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: You're very tolerant, Colonel.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Oh yes, and another thing. I neglected to inform your mother that I like my breakfast promptly at seven. Coffee, thin toast, and two eggs, boiled, two and a half minutes, under no circumstances more than three.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: But golly, Colonel Smollett, we can't afford to give you breakfast.::Colonel William G. Smollett: Indeed?::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Even as it is now, poor Mother doesn't know what she's going to do. When Fidelia was here, the bills didn't seem so high, but now, with the way things are going -::Colonel William G. Smollett: Please. I'm quite prepared to pay.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Oh. That's fine. What would you say to fifty cents a day?::Colonel William G. Smollett: That seems a bit high under the circumstances.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: All right, we'll make it three dollars a week. There's the doorbell. Well, let's call it a deal. Good night, Colonel.
Headwaiter at Steak House: The white fish, signor, is simply delicious. Grilled. You'll like it.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Two steaks, thick.::Headwaiter at Steak House: Lobster creole. Speciality of the house.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Two steaks, thick.::Headwaiter at Steak House: I must tell the truth, Commodore. We are fresh out of steaks since last Tuesday.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: This is a steak house. Look, it says right here, "thick Kansas City steak."::Headwaiter at Steak House: I can't help it, signor. There's a war on, you know.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: There's a war on, you know. Yes, I found that out. All right. Bring us whatever you have. Anything but hash.::Headwaiter at Steak House: Bravo, signor. You will be very happy, you'll see.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Mother?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, Jane?::Jane Deborah Hilton: Mother, do you think I have a nice figure?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, darling. You have a beautiful figure.::Jane Deborah Hilton: Do you think Tony might paint me someday?::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Over my dead body.
Colonel William G. Smollett: [studying a map] Wettookit. Wettookit. You must have the name wrong.::Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: No. Here it is in Pop's letter. "Now, we're here in Texas on maneuvers... in a little town called Wettookit. We came, we saw, we took it!"::Colonel William G. Smollett: "We took it." Very funny. I would appreciate it, my dear Bridget, if in the future you could spare me from your father's elaborate puns.
Jane Deborah Hilton: I beg your pardon, Colonel Smollett. There's someone here to see you. Your grandson.::Colonel William G. Smollett: William?::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Hello, Grandpa!::Colonel William G. Smollett: To what peculiar combination of circumstances do I owe this visit, William?::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Well, you see, I was transferred out here to Chamberlain Field, and I found out at your office -::Colonel William G. Smollett: Indeed? I wasn't even aware that the United States forces had been honored by your membership.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I enlisted, sir. Last summer.::Colonel William G. Smollett: So. I don't think we need trouble these young women with your autobiography. Let's go into the living room. If you will excuse me.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Excuse me.::Colonel William G. Smollett: I presume you've come to me for help of one sort or another with your tail between your legs.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: No, sir, I thought you might like - Well, you see -::Colonel William G. Smollett: Or is it money that you're after? Speak up, boy.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I thought you might like to see me.::Colonel William G. Smollett: A very mistaken notion if ever you had one, and you've had plenty as we're both well aware.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: After all, I thought we may not see one another again. I don't know when I'll be shipped out.::Colonel William G. Smollett: Come, William. Let's not dramatize these things. There's no need for any pretense of affection between us. You've paid your courtesy call.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Well, all right, if that's the way you feel about it! I'm sorry to have disturbed you.::Colonel William G. Smollett: You may drop me a line with your address. And if you have any affairs that require attention, I shall have my lawyers look after them. For your late father's sake. Now, I'm sure you will excuse me. I'm a bit tired.
Major Sam Atkins: Hello, Tony. I didn't know you were in town.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Hello, Sam. It's quite a dance you fellows are putting on here. What's the matter? You look upset.::Major Sam Atkins: Just got some bad news. Good evening, Mrs. Hilton.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Good evening, Major.::Major Sam Atkins: Plane crash. Don't say anything about it now, it might spoil the fun.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: That's too bad. Where'd it happen?::Major Sam Atkins: Right outside town. Lost one of my best boys.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: What was his name?::Major Sam Atkins: Mahoney. He hit some wires.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, not Johnny!::Major Sam Atkins: Did you know him? Well, I hope he wasn't, uh...::Mrs. Anne Hilton: But it can't be! We were talking to him here just a little while ago.::Major Sam Atkins: I'm extremely sorry, Mrs. Hilton. I had no idea that you knew him. I shouldn't have said anything.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: It was just that I liked Johnny very much. I know his father.::Major Sam Atkins: A terrible thing.::Soldier at Dance: Beg pardon, sir. The car's ready for you now, sir.::Major Sam Atkins: Be right there.::Soldier at Dance: Yes, sir.::Major Sam Atkins: I've got to go and examine the wreck. Not a very pleasant job, I can tell you. Good night.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Good night.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh Tony, how awful. His poor parents.::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Lucky Johnny. Come on, Anne. Let's dance.::Mrs. Anne Hilton: Dance?::Lieutenant Tony Willett: Look Anne, you'll be hearing plenty of things like this. Might as well get used to them now.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: You will marry me when it's over, won't you, Jane? You won't be mad at me because I didn't marry you now?::Jane Deborah Hilton: Of course I won't be mad. But you take care of yourself.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I will.::Jane Deborah Hilton: You write to me.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I will. You do understand, don't you?::Jane Deborah Hilton: I think so.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: You know it's because I wouldn't want you to be - Well, you know, if anything happened to me ...::Jane Deborah Hilton: A widow, you mean.::Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Well, yes, but not only that. If something happened - I mean, if I was -::Jane Deborah Hilton: If you were wounded? Oh, Bill, I'd take care of you the rest of our lives, always.
