The Forbidden Street (1949)

Maureen O'Hara: Adelaide 'Addie' Culver

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• Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : I pay you 10 shillings a week and I expect some service for it. Here! All right you old fool do what you like but not so likely you find somebody to pay you I do and ask little for it.

  Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey : Hold on there, No call to talk so nasty to friends, I do it this once

  Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : You do it as many times I tell ya if you know what good for ya

  Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey : not so nasty I said, I don't mind you a favor now and then accounting you paying me

  Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : Why then?

  Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey : I tell ya deary, I'm a woman who never had child I got one now You

  Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : I soon be mother by a Hippopotamus. Get along with you and do what your told.

• Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : You can tell by his face that he's a great artist and you must admit he's very distinguished-looking, isn't he Papa?

  Mr. Culver : How the deuce should I know - I read the fella's references - don't think I ever looked at his face.

• Adelaide 'Addie' Culver : [Last lines]  My mews is now a fashionable address. Famous artists and writers have their studios there and gone is the squalor of yesteryear. But to me it will always be the place which caught the imagination of a little girl, A place of mystery, fascination and heartbreak, and at the end a place of enchantment and happiness.