The Time of Their Lives

The Time of Their Lives is a 1946 American film about two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
 * ''Directed by Charles Barton. Written by Walter DeLeon.

FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING! (taglines)

Mildred Dean

 * [to Emily] Pardon me, but did I see you in Rebecca?

Dialogue

 * Horatio Prim: [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes] Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!
 * [they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes]
 * Horatio Prim: Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!


 * Sheldon Gage: What's the matter, Tom?
 * Cuthbert Greenway: Bottles flying through the air, glasses filling themselves up, and somebody tooted into my stethoscope!


 * Melody Allen: Horatio, be patient.
 * Horatio Prim: Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my girlfriend Nora has been waiting for me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!


 * Horatio Prim: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!
 * Melody Allen: How can that be?
 * Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.


 * Emily: [in a trance and speaking with the voice of Thomas Danbury] Melody, my beloved, it's Tom. I've come to help you.
 * June Prescott: Oh, Shelly, what does it mean?
 * Sheldon Gage: It-it must be Danbury speaking through Emily.
 * Mildred Dean: Oh, fine. A ghost to ghost broadcast.

Taglines

 * FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING!
 * Something NEW from BUD and LOU!

Cast

 * Bud Abbott — Cuthbert Greenway / Dr. Ralph Greenway
 * Lou Costello — Horatio Prim
 * Marjorie Reynolds — Melody Allen
 * Binnie Barnes — Mildred Dean