[Lucy
Warriner’s divorce from husband Jerry is about to come through, freeing her to
wed oil-rich but unsophisticated Daniel Leeson.)
Jerry
[played by Cary Grant]: “Ah, so you're
gonna live in Ok-la-ho-ma, eh Lucy? How I envy you. Ever since I was a small
boy, that name has been filled with magic for me. Ok-la-ho-ma!”
Daniel
[played by Ralph Bellamy]: “We're
gonna live right in Oklahoma City!”
Jerry:
“Not Oklahoma City itself? Lucy, you lucky girl! No more running around to
nightspots. No more prowling around in New York shops. I shall think of you
every time a new show opens and say to myself, 'She's well out of it.'”
Daniel:
“New York's all right for a visit but I wouldn't want to live here.”
Lucy
[played by Irene Dunne]: [gamely but uncertainly] “I know I'll
enjoy Oklahoma City.”
Jerry:
“Well, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go over to Tul-sa
for the weekend. I think a big change like that does one good, don't you?”—The Awful Truth (1937), screenplay by Viña Delmar and an uncredited Sidney
Buchman, based on a play by Arthur Richman, directed by Leo McCarey
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