Dear Ruth (1947)

Mary Philips: Mrs. Edie Wilkins

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• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : How'd you sleep dear?

  Judge Wilkins : Like a top. Spun all night.

• Miriam Wilkins : Your stomach has to have something to work on, Dad. In the morning, you have an empty 30-feet of small intestine.

  Judge Wilkins : Hasn't everybody?

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : I'm in charge of your father's small intestine - all 30 feet of it. And I don't care for such talk at breakfast.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : [to Ruth as she leaves the house]  Be charming, but dignified.

  Judge Wilkins : Charming, but dignified? How can you manage a thing like that? Don't let it get you down.

  Ruth Wilkins : He hasn't got me yet.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : How do you feel, Harry?

  Judge Wilkins : Oh, fine, dandy, never felt better.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : You looked terrible stretched out on that cot.

  Judge Wilkins : Were you there too?

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : That isn't a very good picture of her.

  Judge Wilkins : It's very good. I took it.

• Lt. William Seacroft : [Looking at a framed picture of Ruth]  Be seeing ya', baby. That's what I call her - baby. You might as well know it.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : I used to call her that.

  Judge Wilkins : It's not the same, dear.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : We'll use the good plates, Dora. And serve that $2 bottle of wine.

• Miriam Wilkins : I'm not sorry for what I've one. I've given a soldier to the war.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : His mother will be happy to hear that.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Miriam, Hitler started by burning books. You must be tolerant of every opinion.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Well, I'm only interested in his reaction to the war. I skip the personal things.

  Judge Wilkins : How do you know they're personal, if you don't read them?

• Ruth Wilkins : He's nothing like he seems.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : He seems like a nice clean cut young fellow.

• Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Harry, I just thought of something... They're not supposed to meet.

  Judge Wilkins : Well if they're not supposed to meet, this is the place for it.

• Judge Wilkins : Well, don't you and Bill know where you're going.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Just the Pacific. Might be China or India.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Well, I think that's very inconsiderate of them, not telling you.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Mrs. Wilkins, I think you've hit on the finest definition of war I've ever heard - just one inconsideration after another.

• Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Well you see, everyone wants to name the plane after his girl. So we drew for it. Bill wrote down rules, and... I wrote down rules too. But the rear gunner won it with Helen.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : That's a pretty name.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : It didn't stay Helen. After our fifth mission, he got an invitation to her wedding.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Oh.

  Judge Wilkins : Did you change the name of the plane?

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : He added one word. That's how the plane got to be called Helen Gone.

• [Last lines] 

  Harold Klobbermeyer : [Doorbell rings]  Hi. Oh, excuse me. Is Miss Ruth Wilkins at home?

  Miriam Wilkins : Harold! Harold Klobbermeyer!

  Judge Wilkins : No, no!

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Oh, no!