They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Joan Crawford: Margaret J. Drew

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Quotes 

• Margaret Drew : When I want a sneak, I'll hire the best and get a Jap.

• Margaret Drew : [to Mahoney]  Why do I pay you $10,000 a year? I ought to send you back to the police force.

• Vivian Drew : I had a flat tire.

  Margaret Drew : You've got a flat head.

  Mrs. Drew : That's not true, Margaret. None of the Drews were flat-headed, except Uncle Ellereth.

• Margaret Drew : What do I have to do - allow this Michael Holmes to beat my brains out with a baseball bat before the legal department can sue him for libel?

• Margaret Drew : When did you see this person last?

  Vivian Drew : Oh, I haven't seen him for a long time

  Margaret Drew : When?

  Vivian Drew : Last night.

  Margaret Drew : Well?

  Vivian Drew : We parked my car on Riverside Drive and talked.

  Mrs. Drew : What did you talk about, dear?

  Margaret Drew : How to live on a grease monkey's pay, wasn't it?

• Margaret Drew : The institution of Marriage is no different from any other step you may take. Never take a step unless it's a successful step upward. Intelligent people don't marry for better or worse. They marry for better and better.

• Mrs. Drew : It's a family characteristic. All the Drew women had it. I know when I first met your father, my knees...

  Margaret Drew : Mother, you know you've always suffered with your liver. Vivian, when you and Stephen return from your honeymoon, I'll have Dr. Cassell look at your liver.

• Margaret Drew : He's kissing everybody.

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : M.J.? You're her?

  Margaret Drew : Yes, the old bag, that tire character.

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : [as he's being hauled away, yells so the wedding guests can hear him]  Why don't you tell the groom's family you've got an insane uncle, bla-bla-bla-bla. They've got a right to know there's insanity in the family.

  Margaret Drew : [to the wedding guests below]  Somebody left the radio on.

• Crane : The Truck Drivers' Annual Dance. They sent a committee, hoping you would attend. You see, they've never met the head of the firm.

  Margaret Drew : I pay their wages; they don't have to know me socially.

• Marsh : The laws of libel are not very definite.

  Margaret Drew : Not definite?

  [Reading a transcript, "From the Driver's Seat," by Michael Holmes] 

  Margaret Drew : The daughter is a chip off the old block - if you can chip granite.

• Margaret Drew : Crane, how long have you been personnel manager of the Drew Transportation Company?

  Crane : 13 years, M.J. - three with you and 10 years before that with your father, rest his soul.

  Margaret Drew : Did you rise when he entered?

  Crane : No, M.J. Oh, I'm sorry, M.J., I forgot it.

  Margaret Drew : Hereafter confine your sitting up exercises to your home.

• Mrs. Drew : I've waited a long time for you to become a woman. I knew when you did, you'd be terribly hurt. But I'm glad. Glad it's over a man like Michael Holmes. I remember when you said to Vivian, 'Marriage is just like any other step - not for better or worse, but for better and better.' Now you're in love with a pauper and rogue and you can't get him - not for better or worse. And what's more, the money went to Stephen.

  Margaret Drew : What?

  Mrs. Drew : To open his mill - providing Stephen would employ the men you discharged -- Michael's friends. You see, your sister's husband hasn't a dime.

• Margaret Drew : I wanna know what was the idea telling those people downstairs I was your girlfriend?

  Michael 'Mike' Holmes : Well, would you want me to tell 'em that you came here on business?

• Margaret Drew : Dr. Cassell, when you examined me 10 days ago, my liver was bad, wasn't it?

  Dr. Cassell : No. Perfectly healthy, normal liver.

  Margaret Drew : Are you sure?

  Dr. Cassell : Of course I'm sure.

  Margaret Drew : Well, something could have happened to it in the last few days, couldn't it?

  Dr. Cassell : Hardly.

  Margaret Drew : Are you... are you quite sure?

  Dr. Cassell : I'm quite sure, my dear.

  Margaret Drew : Well, I'm not, and I insist you examine me again.

• Mrs. Drew : Go ask him, dear.

  Margaret Drew : What if he won't answer?

  Mrs. Drew : You're a woman now, and a woman gets an answer whenever she sets her mind to it.

• Dr. Cassell : [after suggesting that she was in love]  Your symptoms are classic. Hearing music, sounds, seeing things, why a high school student in elementary biology could diagnose your case.

  Margaret Drew : Why, that's nonsense. And I'll prove it to you.

• Margaret Drew : Why don't you do something about that glandular condition of yours?

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : Shall I open the door?

  Margaret Drew : No, the door's too far away.

• Margaret Drew : Well, I've been able to run the business to everybody's satisfaction up to now.

  Mrs. Drew : I don't know how capable you are, Margaret. After all, a woman who loves a man and can't show...

  Margaret Drew : Mother!

  [back to her board of directors discussion] 

  Margaret Drew : Now about that Drew bill line, in order to keep things straight I think...

  Mrs. Drew : And furthermore, he's not a blackmailer, I happen to know.

  Margaret Drew : Mother, I can't prevent you as a stockholder form being here, but I can certainly insist that you confine yourself to the business of the day.

  Mrs. Drew : Margaret, you can't hide behind the Drew Trust.

  [Margaret again talks to the board, mostly unintelligible, while Mrs. Drew talks clearly above her dialog] 

  Mrs. Drew : I know I'm silly and stupid, but I know when a woman's heart is broken. It's Michael...

  Margaret Drew : [Jumping up from her chair]  I will not have his name mentioned in tis house.

  Mrs. Drew : It's being mentioned every time your heart beats. Can't you hear it, Margaret? It's saying, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Isn't it?

  [Margaret walks out of the room followed by her mother] 

• Margaret Drew : But, how did you know all this?

  Mrs. Drew : I was the go-between.

  Margaret Drew : But didn't they know that I had reinstated the men? Didn't they know they were discharged against my wishes? Didn't they know I was giving Johnny a raise? Didn't they?

• Dr. Cassell : Perhaps you experienced some sort of emotional shock

  Margaret Drew : Nonsense! I never experience emotional shocks.

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : Aw, c'mon, everybody likes hotdogs - even the queen of England. But she took time off from the business of being the queen to be a woman.

  Margaret Drew : Give me that hotdog.

• Margaret Drew : [hugging her mom]  Oh, you said you were silly and stupid. But you're as wise as the age... . I'm the dope.

  Mrs. Drew : [calling after her, as Margaret hurries out]  I always agree with the president of the firm.

• Margaret Drew : What's being married like?

  Secretary : Well, I never stopped to think about it.

  Margaret Drew : Ah, why not?

  Secretary : Well, after a while, you even stop feeling there was a time when you weren't married.

  Margaret Drew : Don't you ever get bored?

  Secretary : Yes. And how, yes. Some mornings I come in here very grateful for my job. But then, around 5 o'clock - oh, I don't watch the clock, but you... you know it's 5 o'clock because you start feeling as if... that... something's missing. You get lonely. I guess that's what it is. Lonesomeness. And you start counting the minutes till you meet him where you always do - front of the subway entrance.

• Michael 'Mike' Holmes : You'd better go to bed, Margaret.

  Margaret Drew : The name is Maggie.

  Michael 'Mike' Holmes : It's been a full day, Maggie.

  Margaret Drew : My name is Baby.

  Michael 'Mike' Holmes : No. Please go to bed, Baby, please!

  Margaret Drew : Oh, Mike, I can't just plunge into sleep. I'm a creature of moods.

• Margaret Drew : Marsh, clear the way for me.

  Marsh : It's gonna take a little time.

  Margaret Drew : Are you a man or aren't you?

  Marsh : Well, my birth certificate says male - I hope I won't have reason to regret it.