Party Wire (1935)

Helen Lowell: Nettie Putnam

Quotes 

• Deborah : My, ain't it wonderful - these telegrams - how fast news can travel.

  Nettie Putnam : Telephone's good too.

• Nettie Putnam : [knock at the door]  Come in! You're not crippled are ya?

• Nettie Putnam : Stop grinning like a Cheshire Cat!

• Matthew Putnam : Don't tell me you brought me all the way back from Europe just to give me a balling out?

  Nettie Putnam : You've had your education, your fling, and your foolishness. Now it's time to settle down.

• Nettie Putnam : How did you enjoy your trip up to Willow Creek.

  Matthew Putnam : How'd you know about that?

  Nettie Putnam : A little bird told me. He told me you were holding hands too.

  Matthew Putnam : Your little bird exaggerates. I haven't got that far yet.

• Nettie Putnam : I want to warn you, Matthew. Be careful. Gossip in a village like this travels like a prairie fire.

• Nettie Putnam : Come back and have dinner with me.

  Matthew Putnam : I will if you promise not to try any of your magic on that apple pie Deborah's baking.

  Nettie Putnam : It's a cherry pie!

  Matthew Putnam : An apple pie.

  Nettie Putnam : I told her to bake a cherry pie!

  Matthew Putnam : And I told her to bake an apple pie!

  Nettie Putnam : It's a cherry pie!

  Matthew Putnam : It's an apple pie!

  Nettie Putnam : Cherry!

  Matthew Putnam : Apple.

• Nettie Putnam : You've caught me, Matthew. Are you shocked?

  Matthew Putnam : Well, listening in on a party wire isn't a very edifying way of passing your time.

• Nettie Putnam : You'd be surprised at what I hear, even about the best people. There's a juicy scandal brewing right now concerning you.

  Matthew Putnam : Look here, Aunt Nettie, if you get pleasure out of picking up gossip over the telephone, you go right ahead; but, don't bother me with it.

• Nettie Putnam : Deborah, get me some clothes.

  Deborah : Clothes, Miss Nettie? What kind of clothes?

  Nettie Putnam : Just clothes, you idiot! A dress, petticoat, shoes, stockings, hat, gloves! Never mind the gloves.

  Deborah : What do you want clothes for?

  Nettie Putnam : Cause I can't go down to the meeting in my nightgown! Can I?

  Deborah : You can't go out. Why, you haven't been out of your bed in 15 years.

  Nettie Putnam : I may not be out in another 15 years. But, tonight's my night to howl! Get me some clothes!

• Nettie Putnam : Let's look facts in the face! This never would have happened if we didn't have a lot of women with nothing better to do than glue their ears to a telephone!

• Nettie Putnam : And now we come to the village Casanova - or, as he calls himself, a local hot potato, Bert West. Bert's asked every woman under 50 to drive over to Waysville with him. And I can name every one of the young ladies - and some not-so-young - who've taken a little trip with him.

• Nettie Putnam : I'm tired, Matthew and I'm old. It's your turn now. After all, it is your business!

  Matthew Putnam : I'll tell ya what, we'll give the dairy business back to the Indians. You and I'll get in a boat and take a trip around the world.

  Nettie Putnam : Oh, no we won't.

  Matthew Putnam : Oh, yes we will.

  Nettie Putnam : Oh, *no* we won't.

  Matthew Putnam : Oh, yes we will.

  Nettie Putnam : Oh, no we won't.

  Matthew Putnam : Oh, yes...