Unfaithfully Yours Page #2

Synopsis: Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation. When the concert ends, he tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as well in reality as they did in his imagination.
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Production: Fox
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
APPROVED
Year:
1948
105 min
515 Views


Mine look more like nutcrackers.

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- Here, darling.

- Thank you, sweetheart.

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She also wants to know why

you conduct from a score.

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Because I can actually read music.

I also play an instrument, the flageolet.

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- Don't forget to tell her that.

- Certainly, Sir Alfred.

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- I'll get you a light.

- Thanks.

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Also, Mr. Pedasta, your concert master,

would like to discuss with you...

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the fingering in the fourth, fifth

and sixth bars before letter "H"...

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in the Tannhuser overture.

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Oh, dear. The fingering's standard.

What's the matter with him?

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He says because it's the Paris version

with the Venusberg music.

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- Do you want the French fingering?

- That old story.

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Tell Mr. Pedasta I'll walk with him

to the rehearsal and discuss it on the way.

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- I've got to get dressed now.

- Certainly, Sir Alfred.

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Then there is a citizen

who wants you to endow...

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the De Carter Foundation

for the Diffusion of Serious Music.

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Well, throw him out.

Nothing serious about music.

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It should be enjoyed flat on the back

with a sandwich in one hand...

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and a bucket of beer in the other

and as many pretty girls around as possible.

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- Oh, Tony, if you repeat one word of this stuff.

- I won't.

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You know, the only trouble with you is

I never feel like getting up...

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I never feel like getting dressed...

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I never feel like going out into the world

to wrestle it and bring it to its knees.

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I think the successful, energetic men must all

have been married to women who looked like -

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Oh. Well, I will now leap

into a cold shower.

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- [ Doorbell Buzzes ]

- I'll take it.

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Some flowers for Lady de Carter.

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- Oh, how nice.

-[ Hugo ] I'll take 'em.

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Say- Oh, there you are.

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- Give him a dollar, Hugo.

- A dollar?

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Well, it's only 62 and one-half cents,

you know, at the moment.

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- There's 62 and a half cents for you.

- Thank you, Sir Alfred.

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I'll pretend it's a dollar.

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- [ Speaking Foreign Language ]

- I wonder who sent her these.

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Why don't you grab yourself a look

and treat yourself to a surprise?

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'Cause it's none of my business.

They're probably from some poor devil...

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who was madly in love with her,

nearly perished when she married me...

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and once a year, on the anniversary

of their last farewell...

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sends her this little bunch of snapdragons.

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- Or could they be hollyhocks?

- In this box it could be a skeleton.

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- He could've sent himself.

- Don't be gruesome, Hugo.

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- Oh, I see they came, Sir Alfred.

- Hmm?

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I tried to get all long-stemmed roses...

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but they must have filled out

with a few chrysanthemums.

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Oh, these are the flowers that I - Lovely!

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That you asked me to send

on the way in this morning.

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- Of course.

- I scratched out the name on one of your cards...

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and wrote instead, " For my love.''

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Remarkably efficient.

Thank you very much.

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And have this razor honed for me, will you?

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- It's duller than one of my brother-in-law's jokes.

- Certainly, Sir Alfred.

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- Mr. Henschler is on his way up, by the way.

- Oh, what does he want?

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- He did not inform me.

- I've already seen him once today.

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I mean,just 'cause he's married

to my wife's sister doesn't entitle him to -

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- Really, what a bore he is.

- Look, he's got one hundred million dollars.

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Don't be expecting also Mickey Mouse.

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I have a few million myself, you know.

It doesn't entitle me to -

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You ain't got a hundred million.

It's that last zither that cooks the goose.

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That miser. Every fur coat he gives his wife

he inherited from his grandmother.

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Every pearl from his aunt.

Every diamond from his blasted -

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- Stop. You're breaking my heart.

- It's silly of me to allow him to annoy me so...

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but do I haunt his hotel constantly

sending messages I'm on my way up to see him?

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Do I use the vaguest of all relationships...

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two strangers who marry sisters,

as a wedge for the purpose of-

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Mr. August Henschler, sir.

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Good morning again, August.

I've never seen you looking better.

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- Well, I, uh -

- Do you want to see me alone or in committee?

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Or is it really necessary

for you to see me at all?

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Well, if it wouldn't be too much trouble-

Good morning.

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How do you do?

Remember, you have a lot of other jerks...

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waiting for you in front room

after you get through in here.

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I'll take the razor down to the barbershop.

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Now, my dear August,

what happy updraft wafts you hither?

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Thank you.

Now let me see. How to begin.

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- At the beginning.

- [ Chuckles ] Yes, quite so.

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for a Sturges character to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate. Sturges famously sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. more…

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