Forsaking All Others (1934)

Billie Burke: Aunt Paula

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Quotes 

• Shemp 'Shempy' : [as he helps Paula pick up the Dining table and carry it]  Where are we going?

  Aunt Paula : To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.

• Mary Clay : Hey, Paula. What goes on at bachelor dinners?

  Aunt Paula : As I understand it, very little, goes on.

  Mary Clay : I get it.

• Aunt Paula : Did you wear your rubbers? I understand it rains for months, at a time, in Spain.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Darling, I lived in Madrid. It's like Paris.

  Aunt Paula : Oh really, I understood it's quite savage, jungles and things.

  Mary Clay : Paula's never read Ernest Hemmingway.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Evidently not.

• Aunt Paula : And this is the living room, if you can call it living.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Cheery, isn't it dear?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, yes,. Truly, truly.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Tell me, madam, how far are you from the nearest school?

  Aunt Paula : 30 miles by horse and dog sled.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, that's good enough for junior.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, too good. Ah, darling, how many bedrooms do we need?

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, one for you and the nurse, and one for my mother.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yeessss.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : [to Aunt Paula]  My mother's been living with us since we were married.

  Mary Clay : [Who had been listening to all of this, from the doorway]  Oh, ho, you fools.

• Mary Clay : Just look at those cornflowers... When I was a kid, I said I wanted to be married in a cornflower dress. Dill remembered. Married in hundreds of cornflowers. What a perfect wedding.

  Eleanor : It's a matter of taste. I'd just soon be married in alcohol.

  Aunt Paula : Eleanor!

  Eleanor : Oh, now, don't worry, Paula. I'll be so old they'll have to pickle me in something!

• Aunt Paula : [Bursting into room, seeing Mary getting a massage]  Mary! How can you let yourself be pounded with your wedding less than twenty-four hours off?

• Mary Clay : Wood chopping! That's what does the trick. The greatest exercise in the world.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : [Chuckles]  Yeah.

  Mary Clay : Oh, you don't believe me huh? Well feel.

  [She raises her arm for Jeff to feel, he squeezes and she slaps his hand and pulls away] 

  Aunt Paula : People from miles around come to pick up wood. They think she's crazy.