Personal Property (1937)

Cora Witherspoon: Mrs. Burns

Quotes 

• Mrs. Burns : What is your line, Mr. Dabney? It must be very interesting, I'm sure.

  Claude Dabney : Me? Oh. I'm in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : What?

  Cosgrove Dabney : Well, we're both in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : Really? How very odd.

• Mrs. Burns : Catherine, dear, just where did we see "Ferguson" before? His face is so familiar.

  Catherine Burns : Not to me it isn't.

  Mrs. Burns : You never have any memory for faces.

  Raymond Dabney : Could it have been in Cairo, Madam?

  Mrs. Burns : Yes, of course, that's it. Cairo.

  Catherine Burns : Just a minute, Mother, you've never been to Cairo.

  Mrs. Burns : Oh, haven't I? I thought I had.

  Raymond Dabney : Well, now that I think of it, I've never been to Cairo myself, Madam.

  Mrs. Burns : That's funny. Have you ever been to Cairo, dear.

  Catherine Burns : Not that I can remember, I haven't.

  Mrs. Burns : Well, then, it can't have been in Cairo!

  Catherine Burns : What a coincidence.

  Raymond Dabney : It's a small world.

  Mrs. Burns : We must get to the bottom of this, "Ferguson".

  Raymond Dabney : By all means, Madam.