Primrose Path (1940)

Marjorie Rambeau: Mamie Adams

Quotes 

• Mamie Adams : Ma, confidential, he wanted to marry me.

  Grandma : No!

  Mamie Adams : He did! And I says, "Now, look here, Mr. Hawkins, one husband at a time's enough, ain't it?" And he laughed fit to kill.

  Grandma : He must be a god.

  Mamie Adams : Oh, he's a god and very refined.

  Grandma : It's too bad Homer don't do you a favor and get run over or somethin'.

• Mamie Adams : Here you are, Homer. Take it and have a good time.

  Homer : I'll take it. And I hope you enjoy my degradation.

  Grandma : It's all right with me, Toots.

  Mamie Adams : Now, Homer, don't get tight and fall in a ditch like you done the last time.

• Grandma : Do you suppose hoochamadingy will be in to supper?

  Mamie Adams : Homer? Probably will if he didn't go and fall in that ditch again.

  Grandma : Too bad to waste that nice chop suey on a stomach like his.

• Ellie May Adams : Do you mean you didn't love pa when you married him?

  Mamie Adams : Ah, that's different. You see, he'd been to college and said a lot of them big words, and it kind of swept me off my feet, I guess. Pa is weak and drinks a lot. Anyhow, I made my bargain and I want to stick by it. Somebody has to take care of the family, and while it ain't just like I might have asked for, why, I done the best I knew how.

  Ellie May Adams : That's what them Greeks said.

  Mamie Adams : Them Greeks down the street?

  Ellie May Adams : No, Pa's Greeks. They say, "you don't live like you want to. You live like you got to."

• Thelma : Say, mame, you better keep your eye on that waistline. It's beginning to spread.

  Mamie Adams : I ain't 16 no more.

  Thelma : Oh, well, with the new corsets, you ain't got nothing to worry about.

  Mamie Adams : You said it.

• Mamie Adams : Have you washed for supper?

  Honeybell : I ain't a bit sweaty.

  Mamie Adams : Oh, Honeybell! Horses sweat. Ladies feel the heat.

• Mamie Adams : Honeybell, did you give Ed a nice kiss?

  Honeybell : Why should i? He didn't bring me nothin'.

  Mamie Adams : Nobody learnt you them manners but yourself.

• Mamie Adams : Pa went down to the library to find out something about them Greeks. You see, Pa's what I guess you'd call kind of a bookworm.

  Grandma : You got part of it right, anyhow.

• Mamie Adams : Oh, dear. Poor Homer. Ain't got no gin left. That's what's the matter with you. The big bad gin's all gone, ain't it? Well, Mamie'll get you some money so you can buy some more.

• Mamie Adams : Maybe we'll go steppin' sometime, huh?

  Grandma : Why not? You can always play a new tune on an old fiddle!

  Mamie Adams : Well, you're just as young as you feel, Ma.

• Mamie Adams : Oh, my poor Homer, eyes are all red and watery.

  Homer : My eyes are red with shame.

  Mamie Adams : Why, Homer, you ain't done nothin' to be ashamed of.

• Mamie Adams : Now, look here, Ellie May. You've got to pull yourself together. Now, for instance, you got awful pretty-looking legs in them silk stockings, but you don't know how to walk on 'em. Now, no matter what a man tells you, he likes a girl to flirt with him a little. It's just the same as in a jungle or anyplace else, no matter what they tell you.

• Mamie Adams : Honeybell! Wherever did you learn them dreadful words?

  Honeybell : I heard Granny say it.

  Mamie Adams : Well, it ain't refined.

• Mamie Adams : Say, big boy, how about some of that snappy service?