Dinner at Eight (1933)

Louise Closser Hale: Hattie Loomis

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• Hattie Loomis : [responding to Millicent Jordans' upset about a dinner guest cancelling]  I never could understand why it has to be just even, male and female. They're invited for dinner, not for mating.

• Kitty : I like it in New York in the summer! Gee, I've had some swell times on Penthouse parties.

  Hattie Loomis : All my life I've wanted to be a Penthouse girl.

  Ed Loomis : [Skeptically]  Yeh, you'd be good at that.

• Millicent Jordan : I don't know where I'm going to find someone to fit in with the Ferncliffes.

  Hattie Loomis : Only a rubber plant would fit in with the Ferncliffes.

• Hattie Loomis : Ed hates anything that keeps him from going to the movies every night. I guess I'm what's called a Garbo widow.

• Hattie Loomis : Now, Ed, it isn't going to be so terrible.

  Ed Loomis : Not so terrible? Getting into this uniform to meet a bunch of fatheads I don't want to know and miss that Greta Garbo picture I've been waiting for - for two months! It's your idea of terrible!

• Millicent Jordan : Let's see. I'll put him between Carlotta and that Packard woman.

  Hattie Loomis : See if you can get him first and let nature take its course.

  Millicent Jordan : I do hope he's free for tonight.

  Hattie Loomis : Free, white and forty-five.