Free and Easy (1930)

Trixie Friganza: Ma Plunkett

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• Ma : From now on we're going to manage ourselves, Mr. Butts! Oh, I've never been so humiliated in my life. I'm ashamed to show my face.

  Elmer Butts : I don't blame ya.

• Ma : You oughta be with your grandfather.

  Elmer Butts : Why, he's dead.

  Ma : I know that!

• Ma : There's Joan Crawford, right over there. See.

  Elvira : Oh, Mother, don't speak so loud.

• Ma : You can make a fool of yourself, if you want. But, you can't make a fool of us, you sap!

• Ma : Oh, it's you, is it! I always did say a bad penny has no sense!

• Elmer Butts : I was all flustered up there tonight when that feller insisted that I was William Haines. Gee, I felt bad!

  Ma : You felt bad? Imagine how William Haines felt!

• Larry : Mr. Niblo, this is the little lady I was speaking to you about.

  Fred Niblo : Oh, this is the little country flower. Oh, that's charming. Very charming, in deed. Won't you stand up, my dear, let me look at you. - - Oh, very nice! Very nice, in deed, Miss...

  Elvira : Plunkett.

  Fred Niblo : Miss Plunkett.

  Elvira : And, eh, this is my mother, Mr. Niblo.

  Fred Niblo : Oh, how do you do, Mrs...

  Ma : Plunkett too.

  Fred Niblo : Oh, two Plunketts. Charming.

• Ma : As I've always said, you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's neck.