Double Wedding (1937)

Jessie Ralph: Mrs. Kensington-Bly

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Quotes 

• Margit Agnew : [speaking of her sister]  I'm very proud of what I've done. I kept her from making mistakes.

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Well, it's a lot of fun making mistakes sometimes.

• Margit Agnew : I used to dream about knights in armor and rumble seats. I've read Bryon and picked wildflowers.

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Well, I've never read Byron, but you can't tell me anything about rumble seats.

  [chuckles] 

• Margit Agnew : Waldo's a sort of distant relative of ours. Mother, you know, was a Leslie. The son of her brother, Edward Leslie, married one of the Boyer girls, Anne Boyer. Anne's sister Hermione married Steve Carroll, divorced Steve and married Elmer Beaver who had three brothers, Andrew, Paul and Alexander. Andrew was married twice. His first wife was a Brewster. His second wife was the widow of Morton Thomas, nee Caroline Cook. Andrew and Caroline were the parents of Waldo. Get it?

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Nope!

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Why didn't the old lady pick out a man for you too?

  Margit Agnew : A man? I'm afraid I've never given it much thought. Men and marriage and all that sort of thing take up too much time.

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Look, babe, you only have to run a dress shop. Catherine the Great had 50 million Russians on her hands, and she had plenty of time left over.

• Charles Lodge : Stonewall!

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Charlie!

  [both laugh and hug one another] 

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Why didn't you tell me it was Charlie Horse?

  Margit Agnew : Charlie Horse?

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Certainly!

  Margit Agnew : Then he's an Indian?

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Well, I'll say.

  Margit Agnew : He told me his name was Lodge.

  Charles Lodge : Well, it is Lodge.

  [to Mrs. Bly] 

  Charles Lodge : I told you all the time that my name was Lodge, but you insisted on calling me Horse.

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Well, you said I could call you Horse if I'd let you call me Stonewall Jackson.

  [both laugh heartily] 

  Margit Agnew : For the sake of my sanity, you two have met before?

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Paris. April. Oh, the happiest month of my life.

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : [to Margit]  Oh why show me reports? Why can't we stay around and play with Waldo and Irene for a little while?

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : [to Margit about her dress shop]  I angeled

  [sic] 

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : this joint for only one reason - to put one over on the income tax - to lose money. You make profits! Do you want to ruin me? I got it! We'll double your salary.

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : [after Charles open a door and sticks his head in behind her, apologizes and retreats]  Who was that?

  Margit Agnew : Must be one of the paperhangers. They sometimes get to look like that.

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : How many children are they going to have?

  Margit Agnew : Well, naturally that's up to them.

  Mrs. Kensington-Bly : Well, that's mighty white of you.

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : I don't come here to look at a report. I came here to look at a man. Where is this combination of Casanova, Julius Caesar and Bluebeard?

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : A liar and a horse thief. And you've fallen in love with him. Say, you smoke too much.

• Mrs. Kensington-Bly : It begins to look more and more like a hothouse.

  Margit Agnew : Or a nut house.