Rope (1948)

Constance Collier: Mrs. Atwater

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• Mrs. Atwater : Do you know, when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit.

  Brandon : We all do strange things in our childhood.

• Mrs. Atwater : I have a confession to make. You know, I think I like Mason as much as Errol Flynn?

  Janet : I'll take Cary Grant, myself.

  Mrs. Atwater : Oh, so will I! Capricorn, the goat. He *leaps* divine! So much... Mmm!

• Rupert Cadell : I once went to the movies. I saw Mary Pickford.

  Mrs. Atwater : I was *mad* about her! Didn't you love her?

  Rupert Cadell : The Virgo type, rather, like all of these...

  Mrs. Atwater : Well, what did you see her in?

  Rupert Cadell : I don't quite recall. "The Something Something." Or was it just plain "Something"? Really something rather like that.

• Mrs. Atwater : He was thrilling in that new thing with Bergman. What was it called now? "The Something of the Something." No, no, that's the other one. This was just plain "Something." You know, it was sort of - you know?

  Rupert Cadell : Right - right on the tip of my tongue.

  Janet : Mine, too. It was just plain "Something." I'm sure. I adored it.

• Janet : You wouldn't know me these days. I'm a new woman. Punctual as a clock.

  Mrs. Atwater : That's very unfeminine, my dear.

  Mr. Kentley : Perhaps, but I prefer manners to femininity.