Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)

Gracie Allen: Pamela North

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Quotes 

• Pamela North : Now, let's reason this out and maybe we can solve the mystery.

• Pamela North : She wears beads and long earrings and turbans. She's a sculptor, eh, sculptress. She sculpts! You know, heads and figures.

• Pamela North : I stopped on the way to buy some stockings. And, you know, darling, all this talk about silk stockings being scarce is just silly. When you ask for a pair, they still give you two.

• Gerald P. North : I hate to tell you how much I missed you.

  Pamela North : For just one day?

  Gerald P. North : Didn't you?

  Pamela North : Well, of course! But, then, I'm a woman.

• Pamela North : We don't know people who - who go and get themselves murdered.

• Pamela North : I'd given him my lobster recipe and I wanted to see if he'd ruined it. And he had. It was terrible.

• Pamela North : I only stayed a little while.

  Gerald P. North : Why didn't you tell me?

  Pamela North : Well, I didn't tell you because, well, you would have asked did I take a drink and if I'd said yes, then you would have worried. And I hate to have you worry.

  Gerald P. North : Did you take a drink?

  Pamela North : Well, only one. But, it's good for me Gerry. It's good my driving. It gives me confidence.

• Pamela North : Lieutenant Weigand, could you possibly find the murderer by this Friday? You see, Mr. North and I were planning to spend the weekend in the country and unless this is solved, we won't enjoy it at all.

• Pamela North : I don't know who it is, but I know it's someone. Someone's been in this room while we were away, I'm sure of it.

  Jane Wilson : What makes you think so?

  Pamela North : Well, my hand mirror was on the dressing table, right-side up, and was on the wrong side of the powder box. Now, it's on the right side and that's the wrong side and...

  Stuart Blanton : The right side is the wrong side?

  Gerald P. North : Don't try to understand it, just at first, it takes time.

  Pamela North : The wrong side is the right side and nobody but a burglar would put anything on my dressing table on the right side. I never do!

• Pamela North : Why, my mother never murdered any - my mother wouldn't even speak to a man without being introduced. How dare you say my mother killed anybody!

• Pamela North : This is very important. What kind of bristles has it got?

  Arthur Talbot : They are imported bristles. They come from Brussels.

  Pamela North : Oh, bristles from Brussels.

• Pamela North : I'll tell you everything. It goes way back. I don't know if you've ever noticed - ah, no, you wouldn't. Your nature's too open.

• Pamela North : As I told you dear, while you may say you made a perfectly natural mistake - you'll never convince the police!

• Barnes : What's all the excitement about?

  Pamela North : Oh, I suppose it's in account of that man that was murdered in our apartment.

  Barnes : Murdered?

  Pamela North : In our liquor closet. The police started with my mother.

• Pamela North : He didn't say he didn't. I said he didn't. This afternoon when he said he didn't, he was sure he didn't. Then when we found out it was Mr. Brent, I told him to keep on saying he didn't or let me say he didn't.

• Pamela North : Oh, Gerry, why do you let me talk so much?

• Pamela North : Oh, for heaven's sake, Gerry. It's perfectly crazy the way your mind jumps from one thing to another.

• Pamela North : Well, I didn't ask him to come up here to be murdered.

• Pamela North : That makes things look pretty bad for us, doesn't it?

  Gerald P. North : It makes things look awful bad.

  Pamela North : But, in a way, it's a judgment on you. You never should have told me what I couldn't do.

• Pamela North : You see, it was the maid's day off and Mr. North and I had a leftover meal on a bridge table in the living room. And, you know, there was hardly anything to eat. That roast turkey that we'd had for just one meal had been picked to the bone. In fact, all that was left was the wishbone. So, we each took an end. Mr. North took the north and I took the south. And by the strangest coincidence we both made the same wish.

  George Heyler : You did, eh?

  Pamela North : Yes, we wished that it wasn't the maid's day off.

• [last lines] 

  Pamela North : I didn't want to tell you about it because I know how you think about Indians. Now, I like Indians. You know they were treated very badly. They were here before we were. And the things we could do, to take Manhattan for 25 cents...

• Pamela North : Ah, but don't worry darling. I'll fix it.