Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

Gloria Grahame: Clara

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Quotes 

• Clara : [at Thanksgiving dinner]  How are your parents, Sam? Where are they living?

  Sam : Well, my father's living in an apartment on Lee Road and my mother's still in the house.

  Clara : Did you hear that, Charles? Sam's parents aren't living together!

  Charles : You knew that, Mom! Sam's parents haven't lived together since Sam and I were in the eighth grade.

  Clara : I certainly did not know that! That must make you very sad, Sam.

  Sam : I'm accustomed to it.

  Clara : Brave boy!

  Charles : Do you want me to get the food, Mother?

  Clara : What food?

  Charles : The turkey!

  Clara : There isn't any turkey.

  Charles : Well, whatever it is that you prepared, would you like me to go into the kitchen and get it?

  Clara : I didn't prepare anything. There isn't any dinner. Ha ha. There isn't any dinner!

  Sam : I guess the joke's on us.

  Clara : [laughing hysterically]  That's right. The joke's on you!

• Charles : [about the yellow ribbon in her hair]  That's a nice ribbon in your hair.

  Clara : Well, I told the nurse that it was like the song. "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree."

  [Clara starts to sing the song] 

  Mrs. DeLillo : [wearing a green ribbon]  And I say tie a green ribbon 'round the old oak tree.

  Clara : Mine's a real song!

  Pete : Mommy sure does know her music, doesn't she?

  Mrs. DeLillo : [angrily]  Huh!

  Pete : Mrs. DeLillo knows her music, too.

  Mrs. DeLillo : Thank you so much.