At the Circus (1939)

Margaret Dumont: Mrs. Dukesbury

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• Whitcomb : Pardon me, Madame, but here are the seating arrangements for your final approval.

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Oh, no, Whitcomb. Judge Chinner will sit on my left hand and you

  [turning to look at Loophole] 

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : will sit on my right hand.

  J. Cheever Loophole : How will you eat? Through a tube?

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Well! What is the meaning of this?

  J. Cheever Loophole : Keep your sheet on, I'm looking for old lady Dukesbury.

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : I am Mrs. Dukesbury.

  J. Cheever Loophole : Snook'ems!

  [Rushes to her arms] 

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Oh, good gracious! I don't know you.

  J. Cheever Loophole : You mean you've, you've forgotten?

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Well, I...

  J. Cheever Loophole : I know, you have forgotten. Those June nights on the Riviera, where we sat 'neath the shimmering skies! Moonlight bathing in the Mediterranean! We were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing inner soles! Oh, Hildegarde!

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : My name is Suzanna!

  J. Cheever Loophole : Let's not quibble!

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : [a giraffe licks her neck]  Not here, monsieur. Not here.

  J. Cheever Loophole : Oh, I can't help it. It's just the animal in me.

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : We must have regard for certain conventions.

  J. Cheever Loophole : One guy isn't enough. She's gotta have a convention.

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Now, be sure; when the Normandy docks tomorrow in New York, the Jardinet and his entire orchestra come directly here.

  J. Cheever Loophole : This bedroom will be awfully crowded.

• J. Cheever Loophole : Suzanna, I-eh-I hate to bring up money matters in the bedroom, but, eh...

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : But, what!

  J. Cheever Loophole : Well, eh, just write me out a check for ten thousand dollars and everybody will be happy including the gorilla. And, I do mean you.

• Jardinet : I cross the ocean! I am called a dope ring! I race on a train, when I get here, what do I find? Animals. Animals!

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Animals?

  J. Cheever Loophole : Animals! Mrs. Dukesbury's friends are my friends!

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : You, monster. You're responsible this disgrace!

  J. Cheever Loophole : That's gratitude for you. Most men get their sweethearts one ring for an engagement. I got you three rings!

  Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : A circus! I'll be a laughing stock.

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Now, I know you will all be thrilled. Jardinet's opening number will be Beethoven's somber, spiritual first movement of his second concerto, album three, opus four...

  J. Cheever Loophole : And number five on the Hit Parade.

• Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury : Get me out of this cannon! Get me out of this cannon! Please, get me out of this cannon!