They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Billie Burke: Mrs. Drew

Quotes 

• Vivian Drew : I had a flat tire.

  Margaret Drew : You've got a flat head.

  Mrs. Drew : That's not true, Margaret. None of the Drews were flat-headed, except Uncle Ellereth.

• Margaret Drew : When did you see this person last?

  Vivian Drew : Oh, I haven't seen him for a long time

  Margaret Drew : When?

  Vivian Drew : Last night.

  Margaret Drew : Well?

  Vivian Drew : We parked my car on Riverside Drive and talked.

  Mrs. Drew : What did you talk about, dear?

  Margaret Drew : How to live on a grease monkey's pay, wasn't it?

• Mrs. Drew : It's a family characteristic. All the Drew women had it. I know when I first met your father, my knees...

  Margaret Drew : Mother, you know you've always suffered with your liver. Vivian, when you and Stephen return from your honeymoon, I'll have Dr. Cassell look at your liver.

• Mrs. Drew : I've waited a long time for you to become a woman. I knew when you did, you'd be terribly hurt. But I'm glad. Glad it's over a man like Michael Holmes. I remember when you said to Vivian, 'Marriage is just like any other step - not for better or worse, but for better and better.' Now you're in love with a pauper and rogue and you can't get him - not for better or worse. And what's more, the money went to Stephen.

  Margaret Drew : What?

  Mrs. Drew : To open his mill - providing Stephen would employ the men you discharged -- Michael's friends. You see, your sister's husband hasn't a dime.

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : Are you sure when Margaret was born they didn't make a mistake at the hospital and give you the wrong brat?

  Mrs. Drew : Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, isn't that... .

  [turning to Stephen] 

  Mrs. Drew : Stephen, do you think they could have? Well, I wonder.

• Mrs. Drew : Go ask him, dear.

  Margaret Drew : What if he won't answer?

  Mrs. Drew : You're a woman now, and a woman gets an answer whenever she sets her mind to it.

• Margaret Drew : Well, I've been able to run the business to everybody's satisfaction up to now.

  Mrs. Drew : I don't know how capable you are, Margaret. After all, a woman who loves a man and can't show...

  Margaret Drew : Mother!

  [back to her board of directors discussion] 

  Margaret Drew : Now about that Drew bill line, in order to keep things straight I think...

  Mrs. Drew : And furthermore, he's not a blackmailer, I happen to know.

  Margaret Drew : Mother, I can't prevent you as a stockholder form being here, but I can certainly insist that you confine yourself to the business of the day.

  Mrs. Drew : Margaret, you can't hide behind the Drew Trust.

  [Margaret again talks to the board, mostly unintelligible, while Mrs. Drew talks clearly above her dialog] 

  Mrs. Drew : I know I'm silly and stupid, but I know when a woman's heart is broken. It's Michael...

  Margaret Drew : [Jumping up from her chair]  I will not have his name mentioned in tis house.

  Mrs. Drew : It's being mentioned every time your heart beats. Can't you hear it, Margaret? It's saying, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Isn't it?

  [Margaret walks out of the room followed by her mother] 

• Margaret Drew : But, how did you know all this?

  Mrs. Drew : I was the go-between.

  Margaret Drew : But didn't they know that I had reinstated the men? Didn't they know they were discharged against my wishes? Didn't they know I was giving Johnny a raise? Didn't they?

• Margaret Drew : [hugging her mom]  Oh, you said you were silly and stupid. But you're as wise as the age... . I'm the dope.

  Mrs. Drew : [calling after her, as Margaret hurries out]  I always agree with the president of the firm.