New Orleans (1947)

Irene Rich: Mrs. Rutledge Smith

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• Endie : [singing upstairs, off camera]  I dream about magnolias...

  Miralee Smith : Why who is that mother?

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : That's Endie, your maid, and I've asked her *not* to sing those songs in this house.

  Miralee Smith : But, she sings like an angel.

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : Well, there's more devil than angel in that music!

• Endie : [singing]  Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans, When that's where you left your heart

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : Endie! Didn't I tell you not to let me catch you at that piano again?

  Endie : I'm sorry, Ma'am. If I'd a heard you coming, I wouldn't have let you catch me.

• Miralee Smith : And now I know the King of Basin Street. May I visit you?

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : Miralee...

  Colonel McArdle : Young ladies of quality don't visit Basin Street.

  Nick Duquesne : Perhaps the Colonel will bring you along on one of his slumming parties.

• Mrs. Rutledge Smith : I'd like to give you a chance to get even.

  Nick Duquesne : Trying to get even has ruined many a man.

• Mrs. Rutledge Smith : I'll return this money if you will promise to discourage my daughter's interest in you.

  Nick Duquesne : Interests in me?

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : When I learned she'd been down here last night, she quite frankly admitted it. Apparently you were more successful in attracting her than I thought you'd be.

  Nick Duquesne : Well, that's quite flattering, Mrs. Smith, but, I'm sure its the music here that interests her.

  Mrs. Rutledge Smith : One is just as distasteful to me as the other, Mr. Duquesne. I have plans for Miralee, and they do not include this kind of music or it's environment.

• Mrs. Rutledge Smith : We didn't shake hands coming in. May we going out?