Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
June Allyson: Martha Canford Chandler
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Quotes
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Martha Canford Chandler : You do look a little like Grandpa.
Abigail Chandler : [Sadly] I feel a lot like Grandpa. You know I think Grandpa has the right idea being a drunkard.
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Uncle Jonathan : If it's true, we're ruined. And what's more important, I'm ruined.
Martha Canford Chandler : Oh, Uncle Jonathan. Hugo, are you sure he said Abigail?
Hugh Inkerfield : Abigail. Your sister Abigail.
Martha Canford Chandler : I don't believe it. Abigail is in New York but she'd never do a thing like... like...
Aunt Jennifer : He said she sang... in public?
Hugh Inkerfield : He said she sang and danced in a low café in the Bowery. That's what he said, Aunt Jennifer.
Martha Canford Chandler : That's a lie.
Aunt Jennifer : If it isn't, we're ruined socially.
Grandpa Chandler : Remember when Cousin Harriet ran off with the hurdy gurdy man? Oh, ho ho!
Uncle Jonathan : Cousin Harriet did not have an uncle running for mayor of Boston.
[Suddenly]
Uncle Jonathan : I have it! It's a political plot to ruin my campaign, that's what it is!
Aunt Jennifer : I see what it is. It's your rival.
Uncle Jonathan : It's that Wetherby. He started this slander.
Hugh Inkerfield : He's no gentleman, Uncle Jonathan.
Uncle Jonathan : He's a... he's a... Democrat! I'll sue him for libel.
Martha Canford Chandler : He should be put in jail!
Aunt Jennifer : Oh, I think it's most unfair.
Uncle Jonathan : I'll sue him for $100,000. That's what I'll do.
Grandpa Chandler : You never can tell. Little Abigail looked just like Cousin Harriet when she was a baby. Why they even said she looked like me!
Aunt Jennifer : Why, she does look like Grandpa. I'd forgotten.
Grandpa Chandler : You'll never keep Abigail in mothballs, believe me.
[He cackles]
Uncle Jonathan : Silence!
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Wrigley : [Pointing to Abigail, he is drunk and forcibly escorted away] She's the "Queen of Burlesque" with the Golden Rooster! She's "The Belle of the Bowery!"
Mrs. Ella Patterson : Oh dear, dear. This is dreadful. This is really dreadful.
[to Abigail]
Mrs. Ella Patterson : I'm so sorry.
'Spike' : Well, what's the matter with being "The Belle of the Bowery?" What's wrong with that?
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr. : There's nothing the matter with being "The Belle of the Bowery" Mr. Marengo except she's not the sort of a person we'd care to have in the opera.
'Spike' : Oh, you was thinkin' of her for the opera?
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr. : Miss Abigail has a very beautiful voice. I'm sure it was the alcohol in Wrigley that was talking, wasn't it Miss Abigail?
Martha Canford Chandler : [Before Abigail can speak, Martha jumps in] Oh, he meant me. I'm the one who sings at the Golden Rooster, not Abigail.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : Martha, have you lost your mind?
Martha Canford Chandler : I am High "C" Suzie.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : [laughs nervously] This is ridiculous. Abigail, what's gotten into her?
Abigail Chandler : I'm sure that butler's been drinking.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : Mr. Marengo, you know she's talking nonsense.
'Spike' : [to Martha] Are you on the level, kid?
Martha Canford Chandler : I'm "The Belle of the Bowery" and I'm proud of it.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : Well, I... I refuse to believe it. I shall, if necessary, go down to, uh, the place and prove it all to be a fiction.
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr. : That might be best.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : I shall be there tomorrow night.
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr. : I think it a very good idea.
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Martha Canford Chandler : I just hope he doesn't hit you. Suppose he fell on you.
'Spike' : Don't worry, kid. He's just another hunk of rhubarb pie to me.
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Martha Canford Chandler : [Hiccups] Oh, I'm sorry. I Must have inherited it from grandpa.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : Oh, but of course, it's from the gin. I read somewhere that hiccupping is one of the consequences of drinking.
Martha Canford Chandler : Gin?
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : Yes.
Martha Canford Chandler : What is gin?
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : It's a, a form of alcohol. I strengthened you with it - oh, for medicinal purposes only, of course.
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'Spike' : This babe, uh, is she a canary with steam? You know - does she chirp, is she a thrush?
Bowery Chorine : He means is she a warbler?
Martha Canford Chandler : She sings, if that's what you mean.
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Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : You are very brave, Miss Chandler. We must stick together - you and I. We're both in the same sad plight. As Euripides, the great Greek Dramatist once wrote,
[He quotes in Greek]
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : , which, translated means, the best...
Martha Canford Chandler : ...best remedy for grief is the counsel of a kind and honest friend.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : You know Greek!
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Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : [after Martha faints, and he pours some gin on her lips] Miss. Miss. Please, just open your eyes. One eye? Please.
Martha Canford Chandler : [Moves her head a little] Mmmm.
Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr : She moved. She's alive. She's alive!
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Martha Canford Chandler : I'm not upset. I'm just annoyed, that's all.
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'Spike' : Are you sure she's from Boston.
Martha Canford Chandler : Oh, yes indeed. Her family's lived there for generations.
'Spike' : Naw, this kid ain't that old. That ain't her.