My Sister Eileen (1942)

Rosalind Russell: Ruth Sherwood

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Quotes 

• 'The Wreck' Loomis : [holding an iron]  Which way do you want the pleats turned?

  Ruth Sherwood : Toward Mecca.

• Ruth Sherwood : [reading cereal box]  Nature's Broom. Gonna have breakfast all day long...

  Eileen Sherwood : Oh, but it's good for you. It's roughage.

  Ruth Sherwood : I like to vary it with a little smoothage, like a steak!

• Ruth Sherwood : [on Grandma buying her a new typewriter]  Oh, gee darling, how can i ever repay you?

  Grandma Sherwood : Aw, it's simple, just write another 'Gone With The Wind'.

  Ruth Sherwood : It's a cinch!

• Ruth Sherwood : [reading from the sample package of 'Natures Broom', a fiber cereal]  "Delicious with strawberries and cream". Humph, what isn't?

• Ruth Sherwood : i hope some fresh air gropes its way in here - it's stifling!

• Ruth Sherwood : I'm awful glad you came, officer.

  Officer Lonigan : So you're new in this neighborhood, ain't ya?

  Ruth Sherwood : Yeah, we just moved in today.

  Officer Lonigan : Well, if you're smart, you'll move out tomorrow.

• Ruth Sherwood : [frustrated]  Well, for a place with a bad location and no neon sign, we're doing a whale of a business!

• [first lines] 

  Jimmy : [at the office of the Columbus Courier, watching Ruth type a theater review of Eileen's performance]  Your kid sister?

  Ruth Sherwood : My sister Eileen.

  Jimmy : What's this "Doll's House"? A kids' show, with fairies?

  Ruth Sherwood : It's a well-known classic.

• Ruth Sherwood : [There is a loud explosion]  What was that?

  Appopolous : A little blasting - the new subway.

  Ruth Sherwood : You mean they're blasting right underneath us?

  Appopolous : What are you worrying about - those engineers know how much dynamite to use.

  Eileen Sherwood : But, does it go on all the time?

  Appopolous : Oh no, they knock off at midnight and they don't start again till six in the morning.

  Ruth Sherwood : Six in the morning?

  Appopolous : Listen. In New York you live either a. over a subway or b. where they're building a subway or c. you don't live in New York.