Heroes for Sale (1933) Poster

Aline MacMahon: Mary Dennis

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  • Mary Dennis : They settle every problem in the world four times a day. It's a regular Bureau of Misinformation.

  • Max Brinker : The great Lenin once said...

    Mary Dennis : Well, he ain't gonna say it around here. Now, you go on upstairs. All you do is talk everybody into a stomachache.

  • Thomas 'Tom' Holmes : Maybe you know where I could get a good cheap room?

    Mary Dennis : Why, Pa and me rent rooms in our flat upstairs. We got a nice empty now.

    Thomas 'Tom' Holmes : Bedbugs?

    Mary Dennis : Only if you bring 'em.

  • Mary Dennis : Oh, this is a lovely bed. I gave $15 for the mattress alone.

    [sits on bed, starts bouncing up-and-down] 

  • Mary Dennis : Stop right there! Don't start that again.

  • Pa Dennis : Primpin' for Tom again, eh? Trying to look pretty.

    Mary Dennis : No, just trying to look less like the family.

  • Thomas 'Tom' Holmes : I need every penny I make. I'm gonna have a baby.

    Ruth : We're going to have a baby.

    Max Brinker : What good is a baby? Anybody can have a baby.

    Mary Dennis : Yeah? Well, you just try it sometime.

    Max Brinker : Increase and multiply like rabbits. Make more poor people for the rich to prey upon, starve and exploit.

    Thomas 'Tom' Holmes : Max, you're daffy. If everybody felt like that - there wouldn't be any people left, only machines.

    Max Brinker : Vouldn't it be a better vorld?

  • Thomas 'Tom' Holmes : I think we all ought to celebrate. Let's go out and get some chop suey!

    Ruth Loring : Oh, I'd love it.

    Mary Dennis : No, you kids go ahead. I haven't got a thing to wear.

  • Mary Dennis : He lives for everyone but himself. He's given everything. Taken nothing.

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