Auntie Mame (1958)

Jan Handzlik: Patrick Dennis - Younger

Quotes 

• Patrick Dennis : Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?

  Mame Dennis : She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.

  Patrick Dennis : She sounded English.

  Mame Dennis : Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.

• Dwight Babcock : I dropped by the Bixby School. And what do I find? I find he isn't even registered there - he never has been. So I've been hunting through every low, crockpot school in this town, and I finally found him, in the lowest of them all!

  Mame Dennis : Mr. Page is a progressive educator...

  Dwight Babcock : There they were, a schoolroom full of them: boys, girls, teachers, romping around stark naked, bare as the day they were born!

  Mame Dennis : I assure you that the children under Mr. Page's care were engaged in normal, healthful, broadening pursuits.

  Dwight Babcock : Broadening? You show 'em what you were doing when I broke into that place. Go ahead, show them.

  Patrick Dennis : We were just playing Fish Families.

  Dwight Babcock : Fish Families!

  Patrick Dennis : It's part of "constructive play".

  Dwight Babcock : Now, listen to this.

  Mame Dennis : Show me now, darling - show me.

  Patrick Dennis : Well, we do it right after yogurt time. Mrs. Page and all the girls crouch down on the floor under the sun lamps. And they pretend to be lady fishes, depositing their eggs in the sand. Then Mr. Page and all the boys do what gentlemen fish do.

  Mame Dennis : ...What could be more wholesome or natural?

• Mame Dennis : Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don't understand.

  Patrick Dennis : Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers?

• Mame Dennis : [Meeting her nephew's snobbish dumb-blonde fiancee for the first time]  You're, er, you're at school, dear?

  Gloria Upson : I am an Upper Richman Girls School girl.

  Mame Dennis : Now, how did you get that lovely tan, so early in the spring?

  Gloria Upson : Oh, I played hooky for a couple of weeks. Mums and Dadums and I went down to our place in Fort Lauderdale. We have a place in Fort Lauderdale.

  Patrick Dennis : I was out of my mind until she got back. I am insanely jealous of this kid. Sheer torture and I love it.

  Gloria Upson : [Coyly]  Silly...

  Mame Dennis : Tell me dear, have you, er, have you chosen your major yet?

  Gloria Upson : [With a blank stare]  Chosen my major?

  Mame Dennis : What courses are you taking at college?

  Gloria Upson : Ah, well, just a general sort of liberal arts things, you know, English lit and like that. Upper Richman's a top drawer. *Really* top drawer.

• Mame Dennis : Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast - black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera.

  Patrick Dennis : Is she in the guest room again?

  Mame Dennis : Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel.

• [Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand] 

  Patrick Dennis : ...Neurotic, heterosexual...

  Mame Dennis : Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.

  [takes the list] 

  Mame Dennis : You won't need some of these words for months and months.

• Patrick Dennis : [walking with Mame after her remarkable sidesaddle horseback ride during a fox hunt]  Can I ask you just one question? How did you stay on that horse?

  Mame Dennis : It was just like New Haven with the bracelets. I got stuck, but at the other end.