Sons of the Desert (1933)
Mae Busch: Mrs. Lottie Hardy
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Quotes
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Lottie : I'll show you, you Son of the Desert! Go to a convention, will ya? HAH! Hah!
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Lottie : You know, Charley, I haven't seen you since you sang in the choir.
Charley Chase : And you used to pump the organ, 'member? You little old organ pumper, you!
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Oliver : Well, what's new, Sugar?
Lottie : Oh, nothing much. What's new with you?
Oliver : Oh, nothing to speak of.
Stan : Yes there is. You didn't tell her about going to the convention.
Lottie : What convention?
Oliver : That's right.
[Gritting his teeth to Stan]
Oliver : I'm glad you reminded me.
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Lottie : You're not going.
Oliver : What do you mean I'm not going?
Lottie : Just that! You're NOT going to the convention. You're going to the mountains with me!
Stan : But, he can't go to the mountains. You see, he took an oath, and the Exhausted Ruler said that...
Lottie : Now, listen, dodo, YOU keep OUT of this!
Oliver : Wait a minute, Sugar. There's no use getting excited. You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Stan : Certainly, li-life isn't short enough.
Lottie : Are you going?
Stan : Eh?
Lottie : I said, are you going?
Oliver : Yes, Sugar - eh, Mrs. Hardy.
Lottie : Who said so?
Stan : Him.
[points to Oliver]
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Lottie : That wax eater of yours is no different from the rest! He had JUST as much to do with this as my Oliver did!
Betty : Oh, I admit he lied, but there's one thing I do know: When he gets back home and I ask him, he'll confess and tell me everything.
[Lottie laughs derisively]
Betty : That's more than that blimp of yours will do.
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Lottie : Oh, well, tell us all about it.
Betty : Please do.
Oliver : All right. All right. We were sailing along in clear weather when all of a sudden a terrible storm came up! Didn't it, Stanley?
Stan : Yeah, and then we floundered in the typhoid.
Oliver : Not typhoid. He means typhoon, Sugar. And the ship started to sink and we both dived overboard. Didn't we, Stanley?
Stan : Uh, yeah, just as the boat was going down for the third time.
Oliver : And here we are.
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Lottie : [questioning Oliver's shipwreck story] Well then how did YOU get here?
Oliver : Why, eh...
Stan : Eh... Oh, we ship-hiked!
Oliver : That's right! We... we ship-hiked!
Lottie : Ship-hiked?
Oliver : Yes! We thumbed our way.
Lottie : Whadda you mean "thumbed" your way?
Oliver : Well, Stan and I'd be swimming along, we'd see a boat coming our way, we'd go like that
[thumbs up]
Oliver : and they'd pick us up. Wouldn't they, Stanley?
Stan : Yeah. Of course, that's if they were going our way, mind you.
Oliver : Oh, why, certainly.
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Lottie : Why, I hope you have a nice time, dear.
Oliver : Thank you.
[Lottie laughed]
Oliver : What's that for?
Lottie : Just this, you're not going!
Oliver : What do you mean, I'm not going?
Lottie : Just that, you're not going to the convention, you're going to the mountains with me!
Stan : But, he can't go to the mountains. You see, he took an oath. And the exhausted ruler said that...
Lottie : Now listen, dodo: You keep out of this!
Oliver : Wait a minute, sugar. There's no use getting excited. You're making a mountain out of the molehill.
Stan : Certainly, life isn't short enough.
Lottie : Are you going?
Stan : Eh?
Lottie : I said are you going?
Stan : Yes, sugar. Uh, Mrs. Hardy.
Lottie : Who said so?
Stan : Him.
[points to Oliver]
Lottie : Oh. Well, you can do as you please.
[turns to Oliver, points it]
Lottie : But, you're going to the mountains with me!
Oliver : Now, wait a minute, you listen to this! I want this understood once and for all! I am not going to the convention, I'm going to the mountains!
Lottie : That's just what I said that you're not going to the mountains that you're going to the, that you're going to the mountains!
Stan : Why don't you compromise?
Lottie : What do you mean, compromise?
Oliver : Well, he means sweetheart. That...
Lottie : Oh, shut up! If you think you're going gallivanting off with a lot of hoodlums, to any convention whenever you want to, you're not. Not for a minute, you're not! Here I am, slaving day after day, washing and ironing till my fingers bleed! And you do appreciate it, do you?
Oliver : Well, you don't give...
Lottie : Oh, shut up! Don't talk back to me! Just because I'm an unselfish, what does it get me? Working for you, working for your interests! I've planned a vacation for you in the mountains, at a nice resort where they play bridge and have lectures on art and color. I fight crowds in department stores, dying of the heat, killing myself trying to get a nice mountain outfit together! Why? WHY?
Stan : Why?
Lottie : [turns to Stan] Oh, you keep out of this!
[turns back to Ollie]
Lottie : I'll tell you why. So you won't be ashamed of me, and you do appreciate it, do you? Haha! You want to take the first chance to run off the convention! CONVENTION! You go to the convention, over my dead body! I'll put you in jail first, and you too! With the rest of the Sons of the-- Oh, the SONS OF THE DESERT!
[she storms off]
