Swing Time (1936)
Helen Broderick: Mabel Anderson
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Quotes
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Mabel Anderson : I used to go there in the summer as a kid. You know, before the war.
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : Which war?
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Mabel Anderson : [after having just been hit in the face with a snowball] You know, snow tastes just as bad as water.
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Mabel Anderson : Beautiful, isn't it?
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : What is?
Mabel Anderson : The music.
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : What music?
Mabel Anderson : The music they're playing.
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : Oh, yeah.
[pause]
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : What made you think of it?
Mabel Anderson : Think of what?
Everett 'Pop' Cardetti : The music.
Mabel Anderson : [said sarcastically] Oh, I don't know; my mind was wandering, I guess.
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Mabel Anderson : [Mable thinks she's talking to Pop, when in reality they are on two opposite sets of stairs. She realizes this and turns to an onlooker - a young lady sitting at one of the tables] Oh listen, girlie! Don't worry about me. I always talk to myself... You see, I'm my own grandmother and I have to keep the old girl interested!
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Mabel Anderson : It must be love.
Penelope "Penny" Carrol : How could I fall in love with a common gambler?
Mabel Anderson : Penny, when a man takes a little quarter and builds it into a bankroll that would choke a horse, and makes my little ten dollars grow into hundreds, I'd call him an uncommon gambler.