Let Us Be Gay (1930)

Marie Dressler: Mrs. Bouccicault

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• Mrs. Bouccicault : Don't come back in here with a wet bathing suit. Not that I mind you dripping and more emphasized. But, there's another guest arriving.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Tommy, this is Mrs. Cortland Brown. She's not as sweet as she looks. But, you'll think she is.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : [Looking at a magazine article]  You see what they say about me? Am I eccentric, Whitman?

  Whitman : Well, I should think...

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Whitman, now am I eccentric?

  Whitman : No, madam.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Perkins? Am I eccentric?

  Perkins - the Maid : Oh, no, madam.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Nooo! Liars! Both of you. Why can't you learn to tell the truth? I am eccentric and you know it... Yes, well keep it to yourselves.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : I hope you didn't forget the children by any chance.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Don't worry Bouccy, I left them in town with a nurse till Monday.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, that's a relief. I didn't want to ask you to leave 'em behind. Thought it might seem rude, but I'm glad you did.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Well, don't you suppose I know when to display my jewels and when not to?

• Mrs. Katherine Brown : How do you do. Oh, you magnificent long-legged Britisher. I've been avoiding you in Paris. But you are wonderful, aren't you?

  Townley : Yes, yes, we, we are, aren't we?

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : I thought you said he was 'umble.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Hmm, hmm. This isn't the one.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Oh! You mean to say I have to say that all over again? Because that's the way I'm gonna begin.

• Townley : Uh, begin what?

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Well, you see, uh, Bouccy has a certainly laid plan whereby I have to get a man. Now, would, uh, would that get you?

  Townley : I don't remember what you said, but you have got me.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Oh, I like this one. Bouccy, make it this one.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : All right, practice on him.

  Townley : She doesn't seem to need practice.

• Madge Livingston : Forgive me for leaving the table, Bouccy, but I couldn't stay and listen to another one of those stories.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : I don't think anyone noticed you left the table, my dear.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : When you quote me, make it agreeable.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : No one would believe you said it, lamb.

  Townley : One on you, my pet.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : [a group is singing around Kitty at the piano]  Towney, is that you making that particularly bad noise?

  Townley : No. I'm making the tenor.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, stop it.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Don't stop. You make the rest of us sound so good.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Oh, the younger generation will drive me crazy. When I was a girl and went to a man's room, at least I had the decency not to do it before the servants.

• Mrs. Katherine Brown : [Hearing her children in the background]  Bouccy!

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, I thought it was high time for you to display your jewels.

• Whitman : That suite hasn't been opened all this summer, madame. You gave orders to have it closed.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Bosh! I did nothing of the sort. Well, open it.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Kitty. Kitty, come here!

  Madge Livingston : She doesn't hear you. She seems to be absorbed in a man.

• Whitman : Telephone Hadley at the station and tell him to look for someone peculiar or... someone likely to be coming here.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Whitman! Her name is Brown, Mrs. Cortland-Brown.

• Mrs. Katherine Brown : Why Bouccy, I thought your religion was "hands off."

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, it is. But it doesn't work when it strikes so near to home. She's my own grandchild.

• Townley : My word. The day has been a complete washout. Oh, Oh, I say. Not such a washout.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Oh, I know. You're looking at a woman. And a very beautiful woman. But she's not for you.

  Townley : Selfish old lady. Who is she for?

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, that's my affair.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Towney, this is Mrs. Cortland-Brown. She's not as sweet as she looks. But, you'll think she is.

  Townley : How do you do. I am nicer than I look - much.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : How could you be?

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Of course, the more we suffer in love, the happier we are.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : What do you think?

  Bruce Keene : Well, she has a very "come hither" look in her eye.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Oh, you think so?

  Bruce Keene : Mmmm, you know so, you wise old owl.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Kitty! Kitty! Keep your mind on the game.

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : I don't play bridge with my mind.

  Townley : No? Uh, what do you use?

  Mrs. Katherine Brown : Just my hands.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Oh, of course... bridge tables in the wrong place, guests in the wrong place.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : Whitman!

  Whitman : Yes, madam.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Did you tell Hadley to meet that 8:15 train from town?

  Whitman : Yes, but he telephoned from the station to say there was no train until 10:15.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Well, let him wait. It'll do him good.

  Whitman : Very good, madam.

• Mrs. Bouccicault : What's that?

  Townley : Nothing for you to know, my pet, except that I just avoided having pneumonia last night.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : Too bad you didn't catch it.

  Townley : Thank you, darling.

  Mrs. Bouccicault : You're welcome.