What Now, Catherine Curtis? (1976 TV Movie)

Lucille Ball: Catherine Curtis

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• Mr. Slaney : [He suddenly realizes that Catherine is coming on to him, and he nervously tries to keep talking about how Catherine's grandmother taught her to make coffee]  Well, Grandma knew. I think that most grandmas knew. The old ways are the old ways - the best ways, as far as I'm concerned. She knew. God bless Grandma. Yes, sir. Give me the old ways every time. I mean, people today with their speed and their instants and their jiffies and their speedies - it's getting crazy, with your shake-a-bakes and your bake-a-shakes and your minute mix and your quickie mix and your ready mix and your here a mix, there a mix, everywhere a mix mix...

  Catherine Curtis : [Surprised at his sudden monologue]  What are you talking about, Mr. Slaney?

  Mr. Slaney : Oh, I don't know. Just poke around in there, and you'll find I've said something.

• Catherine Curtis : [talking to herself, imitating her ex-husband]  Catherine, we'll move to Connecticut. You'll love the country.

  [as herself] 

  Catherine Curtis : Well, I hated the country, Ben. I hated the crabgrass. I hated the mulch. I hated the compost heap. And I hated you, Bennett Curtis. Damn you!

• Catherine Curtis : We lived in Westport, Connecticut. It was not zoned for screaming.

• Catherine Curtis : My husband and I never raised our voices to each other in over 23 years.

  Mr. Slaney : Honest to God? How could you live like that? Being married all those years there's bound to be some aggravation that stores up in side of you. I mean, if you don't let it out, you could get herpes.

  Catherine Curtis : Or a divorce.

• Catherine Curtis : [about Sun City]  You won't like it there. They don't get 'Sesame Street'.

• Peter : It was the worst single play I have ever seen in my life but I loved it because an English actor can read graffiti off a wall and make it sound like Shakespeare.

  Catherine Curtis : I agree.

  Peter : [affecting a broad English accent]  For a rollicking good time, call Kinky Kitty; Stratford two, double seven, naught naught.

• Catherine Curtis : That's a lot of Boobermans.

• Catherine Curtis : You can have any young chick in the world. Why me?

  Peter : In the ten years since my divorce, you're the first woman I've gone out with who knows who John Garfield is.

  Catherine Curtis : Oh, for God's sake!

  Peter : Hey, I'm serious. Do you know what it's like to go out with a girl who thinks that Joe DiMaggio is a veal dish?

• Catherine Curtis : [to Peter]  Stop wallowing in the past: Garfield, DiMaggio, Gable, Catherine Curtis. You're a nostalgia freak, that's what you are. I just don't want to be added to your collection of antiques.