The Parent Trap (1961)

Maureen O'Hara: Maggie McKendrick

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• Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh darn!

  Mitch Evers : What's the matter?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Well, I've got a wet dishcloth on and I put some knots in it. Open it for me!

  Mitch Evers : Maggie, as long as everybody's apologizing, I think maybe I better do mine too. I mean about the other night, well, I didn't mean for it to sound like uh... I guess I'm not very good with the compliments what with growing up out here with the cows...

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh now, don't give me that old "growing up with the cows routine"! You handed me that years ago!

  Mitch Evers : I did not!

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : You certainly did!

  Mitch Evers : Well it worked didn't it? You liked it!

  [Maggie does a not very good job of hiding a smile] 

• Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh yes! Don't say anything about that dear, sweet, precious Vicky! That plotz-faced child bride and her electric hips!

• Mitch Evers : Ah Maggie, you're so beautiful.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : [trying to brush it off]  Ah...

  Mitch Evers : No I mean it! I know I don't say things like you want to hear, but I've been thinking a lot about you, and us, and the way things used to be... this might sound funny to you but you know what I've missed most of all?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Mitch?

  Mitch Evers : What?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : You've got stew all over you.

  Mitch Evers : I don't care.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Go and wash it off.

  [pause] 

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : What do you miss?

  Mitch Evers : Well, I don't care if it does sound silly; I miss those wet stockings you used to have hanging around the bathroom, and I miss my razor being dull because you used it to shave your legs with. And I miss the hairpins mixed up with the fish hooks in my tackle box... it's no fun having a clothes closet all to myself. And it's no fun swearing because you're not around to make believe you're shocked by it. Well, nothing's any good without you Maggie, I miss a lot of things... I guess I just miss you!

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Why did you take so long to tell me?

  Mitch Evers : I don't know... Well because, cause I guess I was hoping that you'd come back sometime. Maggie, I've been the prize chump of the world. We've both been. We're going to grow into a couple of old lonely people if we don't do something about it.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : I know.

  Mitch Evers : You don't want that, do you?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : No Mitch.

  [they kiss] 

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh Mitch, it's been so long... so very long.

  Mitch Evers : Don't cry. Listen, you can slug me in the eye anytime you want.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Ok!

• Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Don't you take that tone with me Mitch. I lambed you once!

  [she tries to make a childish fist but it gets wrapped under her robe sleeve, so she pulls the sleeve down] 

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Now stand back.

  Mitch Evers : Oh Maggie, come on...

  [he tries to grab her arm from behind but she elbows him instead and instinctively punches him in the eye] 

  Mitch Evers : Ow!

  [covers his eye] 

  Mitch Evers : Why do you have to get so physical? Can't even talk to you about anything, you're always pelting me with something.

  [mopes over to the couch and lies down] 

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh, stop being such a big baby. Let me take a look at it.

  [tries to look at his eye but he childishly won't let her] 

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : You're acting worse than the twins.

• Mitch Evers : Would you mind putting on something decent?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : I'm dressed perfectly decent.

  Mitch Evers : Yeah, running around in my bathrobe. The priest could come in here any minute, it looks like we just...

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Like we what?

  Mitch Evers : Just go upstairs and put on some clothes!

• Mitch Evers : Hey, Maggie, you look pretty good. What did you do to yourself?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : *Do* to myself?

• Mitch Evers : That's the last time I'm going to take a woman to the mountains; that's all I've got to say.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Oh, ah... Where is, um... um, what's her name?

  Mitch Evers : Vicky?

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : Yeah, yeah. Vicky.

  Mitch Evers : Yeah, yeah... Well... she took off like a pelican and she's probably at Park Avenue and 57th Street by now, and good luck to her.

• Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : [Looking at Mitch's black eye]  Oh, Mitch, that eye, it just looks dreadful. Now really, you must put something on it.

  Mitch Evers : Don't concern yourself.

  Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick : What did you do... step on a rake?

  Mitch Evers : No. Actually, a very well-bred, lady-like, Bostonian matron pinned it on me, if you want the Associated Press release on it.