Operation Petticoat (1959)
Virginia Gregg: Maj. Edna Heywood RN
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Quotes
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Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [speaking to Maj.Heywood in the engine room] You know, I spent alot of years disliking women. But I don't dislike you.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Oh?
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : You're not a woman. You're more than a woman. You're a *mechanic*
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Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [noticing Tostin trying to repair a piece of machinery] Sailor.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Si!
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : You'll never get it to work that way.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [annoyed] Why don't you go and... roll some bandages. What do you know about machinery?
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : I was raised with it. My father was Chief Engineer at the Seattle power plant.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [watching him tinker with the equipment] That would work if you'd install a new valve spring.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [sarcastically mimicking her] "My father was a Chief Engineer..."
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey look, lady. In the first place I'm trying to make do with something that don't even belong on a submarine. And in the second place, you can't install a new valve spring if you ain't got it. Now, will you get out of here?
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : You're talking to an officer.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Maybe Congress made you an officer, but God made you a woman, and... a woman just shouldn't mess around with a man's machinery. Now, for the last time, get out, will ya'?
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Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Sailor...
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Yes, ma'am.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [indicating her laundry she's hung up to dry in the engine room] Tell me when these are dry.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey, look, I'm a Machinist Mate, I ain't a... laundry sailor.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Sailor...
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Yes, ma'am.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Please try not to knock anything down. I wouldn't want it to land on this dirty floor.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : What's dirty?
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : The whole engine room.
Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [Wipes her hand on the deck, shows it to him] Look at that grease.
Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey, if you was bombed and sunk and pulled up by *your* stern, you'd be a little greasy too.