The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Ruth Hussey: Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie

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Quotes 

• Elizabeth Imbrie : What's this room? I've forgotten my compass.

  Macaulay Connor : I'd say, south-by-southwest parlor-by-living-room.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : Oh it's all right, Tracy. We all go haywire at times and if we don't, maybe we ought to.

• [Mike discovers the intercom in the Lords' house] 

  Macaulay Connor : Uh-oh, Liz, what did I tell you? Look, how do you like this - living room, sitting room, terrace, pool, stables.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : That's probably so they can talk to the horses without having them in the house.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : We've come for the body of Macaulay Connor.

  C. K. Dexter Haven : I'm so glad you came. Can you use a typewriter?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : No, thanks, I've got one at home.

• Macaulay Connor : [speaking of Tracy]  What are her leading characteristics?

  C. K. Dexter Haven : She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Leading characteristics to be filled in later.

  Macaulay Connor : I can fill them in right now: the rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.

• Macaulay Connor : C.K. Dexter Haven! What a name tag!

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Macauly Connor is no homespun tag either, my pet.

  Macaulay Connor : Yeah, well you just try calling him Macauly!

  Elizabeth Imbrie : I knew a plain Joe Smith once. Worst rat I ever met.

• Sidney Kidd : You hate me, I trust, Miss Imbrie.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : No, I-I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : I remember your honeymoon quite well. You and she on a little sail boat, the "True Love," wasn't it?

  C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, it was. How did you know?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. You were terribly nice about it. You threw it in the ocean.

  Macaulay Connor : Oh, one of those.

  C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, I had the strange notion that our honeymoon was our own.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : There's a cousin, Joanna, who's definitely crazy.

  Macaulay Connor : Who told you that?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Dinah.

  Macaulay Connor : Well, Dinah would know.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : Where's my wandering parakeet?

• Tracy Lord : Aren't you coming Liz?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Well, it seems I've got to commit suicide first.

• Uncle Willie : [leering at Liz]  Ah Ms. Imbrie, you're a vision of loveliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Oh champagne, I've never had enough.

  Uncle Willie : You will... tonight.

• Macaulay Connor : [telling off Sidney Kidd, his boss]  Quote: No hunter of buckshot in the rear is cagey, crafty Connor. Un-quote. Close paragraph.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Close job. Close bank account.

• Elizabeth Imbrie : [referring to Dinah]  What's this?

  Macaulay Connor : Idiot, probably.

• [Liz screams as Uncle Willie pinches her on the rear] 

  Macaulay Connor : Don't *do* that!

  Elizabeth Imbrie : I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.

  Seth Lord : Don't you think you weren't.

• Macaulay Connor : Look, who's doing the interviewing here?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Do you think she caught on somehow?

  Macaulay Connor : No, she was born like that, don't let her throw you.

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Do you want to take over?

  Macaulay Connor : I want to go home!

• Macaulay Connor : [after Tracy has declined his last-minute marriage proposal]  But they're in there! They're waiting!

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction.

• Tracy Lord : [turns towards Liz]  Maid of honour?

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Matron.

  Macaulay Connor : [looks at Liz, puzzled] 

  Elizabeth Imbrie : Joe Smith, hardware department.