Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Marjorie Main: Katie (Maid)
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Quotes
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Agnes Smith : Katie? Katie, where's my cat? Where is she?
Katie (Maid) : I don't know. A little while ago, she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar steps. I could hear her spine hitting on every step.
Agnes Smith : Oh, if you killed her, I'll kill you! I'll stab you to death in your sleep, then I'll tie your body to two wild horses until you're pulled apart.
Katie (Maid) : Oh, won't that be terrible, now? There's your cat.
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Esther Smith : Oh, Katie, they were just little white lies.
Katie (Maid) : A lie's a lie. Dressin' it in white don't help it. And just why was I lying this time? Why must we have dinner an hour early?
Esther Smith : Because Rose is expecting...
Katie (Maid) : Now don't go blaming your sister.
Esther Smith : Blaming her? Why, we're doing this for her. You know Rose's problem. Warren Sheffield has been writing to her for six months without one word that even smells like a proposal.
Katie (Maid) : What's that got to do with having dinner an hour early?
Esther Smith : Warren is telephoning Rose long-distance from New York at half-past six.
Katie (Maid) : Long-distance?
Esther Smith : Yes, and if the whole family is sitting here drinking in every word, she may be loathe to say the things a girl's compelled to say to get a proposal out of a man. If that man, unfortunately, is Warren Sheffield.
Katie (Maid) : Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
Esther Smith : Well, we can't be too particular. While we love Rose, the brutal fact is that, well, she isn't getting any younger.
Katie (Maid) : There's the poor old maid now!
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Agnes Smith : I can't get hungry till it gets dark.
Katie (Maid) : Dinner's at five-thirty. You can eat blind-folded!
Mrs. Anna Smith : We have to be out of the dining room by six-thirty. Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose, long distance from New York. And Rose, if I were you, I wouldn't committ myself one way or another. After all...
Rose Smith : Mama, for goodness sakes!
Mrs. Anna Smith : After all, we know very little about him. Why, we haven't even met his folks.
Rose Smith : It seems to me. It seems to me that one little phone call is causing an awful lot of excitement in this family!
Mrs. Anna Smith : Besides, you're entirely too young and I don't think your father will allow it.
Katie (Maid) : Mrs. Smith, if I have to keep lying to your daughters, I'll have to had more money.
Mrs. Anna Smith : Now remember, you two: not a word of this to your papa. You know how he plagues the girls about their beaus.
Agnes Smith : Everybody knows but Papa?
Grandpa : Your papa's not supposed to know. It's enough we're letting him work hard every day to support the whole flock of us. He can't have everything.
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Katie (Maid) : Mrs. Smith, who are these boys?
Agnes Smith : It's me, Katie, it's Agnes!
Katie (Maid) : Saints preserve us, it is! You had me fooled!
'Tootie' Smith : Mama, we fooled her!
Mrs. Anna Smith : Well, if you can fool our Katie, you can fool anyone.
Katie (Maid) : Agnes, I thought you were a drunken ghost.
Agnes Smith : But I am. Tootie's a horrible ghost, and I'm a terrible drunken ghost.
'Tootie' Smith : She was murdered in a den of thieves, and I died of a broken heart. I've never even been buried because everyone's scared to come near me.
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Grandpa : [moaning] Ohhhhhhh.
Katie (Maid) : What was that?
Grandpa : Here are your sacks of flour.
[Hand them to Tootie and Agnes]
Grandpa : You couldn't get me out on a night like this for a million dollars!
Agnes Smith : Did anyone here a noise just now?
Grandpa : Did it sound like this?
[moans again]
Grandpa : Ohhhhhh?
Agnes Smith : Uh-huh.
Grandpa : [Shakes his head] I didn't hear it.
Grandpa : If you wet the flour before you throw it, it makes it harder for the victim to remove it.
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Mr. Alonzo Smith : Ah, corn beef and cabbage. Katie, I could smell that cabbage when I got off the trolley.
Katie (Maid) : Cabbage has a cabbage smell.
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Katie (Maid) : Would it start a minor revolution in this household if dinner was served an hour early today?
Mrs. Anna Smith : Mr. Smith hates to eat early on a hot day.
Katie (Maid) : Eating early on a hot day gives you more time to digest your food before retiring. Besides, I'm due at my sister's at seven o'clock on a family matter.
Mrs. Anna Smith : Is there something wrong with your sister?
Katie (Maid) : She's having trouble with her husband. Him bein' a man.
Mrs. Anna Smith : Well, eating early is all right with me, but you'll have to explain it to Mr. Smith.
Katie (Maid) : Oh, he won't mind, seein' as how tonight's corn beef night.
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Katie (Maid) : Anybody want dessert?
Mr. Alonzo Smith : Dessert? What happened to dinner?
Katie (Maid) : I didn't think anybody could eat meat on a hot day like this!
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[first lines]
Mrs. Anna Smith : [tastes ketchup] Best ketchup we ever made, Katie.
Katie (Maid) : [tastes ketchup] Too sweet.
Mrs. Anna Smith : Mr. Smith likes it all the sweet side.
Katie (Maid) : All men like it on the sweet side. Too sweet, Mrs. Smith.