Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

Harry Hayden: Uncle Jonathan

Quotes 

• Uncle Jonathan : [to his niece Abigail]  And you, young lady, had better be singing in the opera tonight or we'll all have to move to Wichita!

• Uncle Jonathan : If it's true, we're ruined. And what's more important, I'm ruined.

  Martha Canford Chandler : Oh, Uncle Jonathan. Hugo, are you sure he said Abigail?

  Hugh Inkerfield : Abigail. Your sister Abigail.

  Martha Canford Chandler : I don't believe it. Abigail is in New York but she'd never do a thing like... like...

  Aunt Jennifer : He said she sang... in public?

  Hugh Inkerfield : He said she sang and danced in a low café in the Bowery. That's what he said, Aunt Jennifer.

  Martha Canford Chandler : That's a lie.

  Aunt Jennifer : If it isn't, we're ruined socially.

  Grandpa Chandler : Remember when Cousin Harriet ran off with the hurdy gurdy man? Oh, ho ho!

  Uncle Jonathan : Cousin Harriet did not have an uncle running for mayor of Boston.

  [Suddenly] 

  Uncle Jonathan : I have it! It's a political plot to ruin my campaign, that's what it is!

  Aunt Jennifer : I see what it is. It's your rival.

  Uncle Jonathan : It's that Wetherby. He started this slander.

  Hugh Inkerfield : He's no gentleman, Uncle Jonathan.

  Uncle Jonathan : He's a... he's a... Democrat! I'll sue him for libel.

  Martha Canford Chandler : He should be put in jail!

  Aunt Jennifer : Oh, I think it's most unfair.

  Uncle Jonathan : I'll sue him for $100,000. That's what I'll do.

  Grandpa Chandler : You never can tell. Little Abigail looked just like Cousin Harriet when she was a baby. Why they even said she looked like me!

  Aunt Jennifer : Why, she does look like Grandpa. I'd forgotten.

  Grandpa Chandler : You'll never keep Abigail in mothballs, believe me.

  [He cackles] 

  Uncle Jonathan : Silence!

• Uncle Jonathan : By George, there she is. Everybody on the stage is looking at her.