Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Mariclare Costello: Emily

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• Emily : It's not the cake!

• Emily : Do you like my new dress? My new old dress?

• Jessica : I was just, er, looking at the picture. It looks so much like you.

  Emily : My lord, it does. Gee, how weird. What's the matter?

  Jessica : Nothing. It's just, er, it does look so very much like you.

  Emily : It's an old print. It could look like anybody.

  Jessica : No, it's... it's the eyes.

• Woody : [Emily has just conducted a seance]  Do you really believe in that kind of stuff?

  Emily : I don't know.

  Woody : [reacting to the sound of Jessica and Duncan's lovemaking upstairs]  Do you believe in THAT kind of stuff?

  Emily : [embarrassed, laughing]  Oh, I don't know.

• Emily : [Emily and Duncan have just finished playing a song together]  Wow, terrific! He's really something! I mean, really.

  Jessica : He's an important man. He was with the Philharmonic.

  Emily : Are you going to try to find someplace around here to play?

  Woody : No, he's gonna farm. Raise apples, have a garden... get back to nature. He's a nut.

  Jessica : *I'm* the nut.

• Emily : Let's have a seance.

  [the others are visibly uncomfortable] 

  Emily : Why not? Don't you believe in spirits? Nothing's ever completely dead.

  Woody : Right! I even hear the Twist is coming back.