Hallelujah (1929)

Fanny Belle DeKnight: Mammy

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• Mammy : I'm certainly glad to see ya done make up your mind to do the right thing.

  Eve : Thank you. 'Cause you know I've always been a respectable woman and I don't want *that* to come up against my character.

• Mammy : [Last lines]  Son, you must be mighty hungry. Don't you want some chitterlings and spare ribs?

  Zeke : Mammy, I like anything you cook.

• Johnson Kid : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night.

  Spunk : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night, Spunk.

  Missy Rose : Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Missy.

  Zeke : Good night, Mammy.

  Mammy : Good night, Zeke.

  Zeke : I'll see you in the morning.

  Mammy : All righty.

  Johnson Kid : Good night, Zeke.

  Zeke : Good night, sleep tight. Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Zeke.

  Spunk : Good night, Pappy.

  Parson : Good night, Spunk.

  Mammy : Oh, thank God.

• Parson : [Family surrounding the wagon with cotton crop destined for the market]  Let us give thanks for our success this year. Let us kneel right down here. We is most thankful for this bountiful crop, oh Lord.

  Mammy : Yes sir!

  Parson : And we trust you won't be offended if we just ask one favor more. *Please* Lord, let us get a good price for our cotton.

• Mammy : What is the matter, Son?

  Zeke : I'm just thinkin', Mammy. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have you and Missy Rose to look after me.

  Mammy : I tell you, it done take a good woman for to keep a man out of mischief these days.

  Zeke : That's right, Mammy, it sure does.

• Parson : Mammy, where is my pipe? Why'd you hide my pipe for anyway? Why can't you let things be?

  Mammy : I been stopped it where you just left it. Oh, here it is, you old stew pot.

• Parson : [First lines]  Mammy, we're almost through with the pickin'.

  Mammy : Yes sir! And we done put in a good season of work!

• Mammy : Tired, Son? How you like to have a nice plate of this hot chitterlings?

  Zeke : I sure would, Mammy. But I likes everything you cooks.

  Mammy : I know you sure is crazy about chitterlings.