It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Donna Reed: Mary Hatch
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Quotes
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George Bailey : What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary : I'll take it. Then what?
George Bailey : Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see... and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair... am I talking too much?
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[first lines]
Mr. Emil Gower : [voice-over] I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father.
Giuseppe Martini : [voice-over] Joseph, Jesus and Mary. Help my friend, Mr. Bailey.
Ma Bailey : [voice-over] Help my son, George, tonight.
Bert : [voice-over] He never thinks about himself, God, that's why he's in trouble.
Ernie Bishop : [voice-over] George is a good guy. Give him a break, God.
Mary : [voice-over] I love him, dear Lord. Watch over him tonight.
Janie Bailey : [voice-over] Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy.
Zuzu Bailey : [voice-over] Please bring Daddy back.
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Mary : [embracing George] Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for.
George Bailey : [softly] You're wonderful... wonderful.
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Mary : Bread... that this house may never know hunger.
[Mary hands a loaf of bread to Mrs. Martini]
Mary : Salt... that life may always have flavor.
[Mary hands a box of salt to Mrs. Martini]
George Bailey : And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever. Enter the Martini Castle.
[George hands Mr. Martini a bottle of wine]
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George Bailey : Mary Hatch, why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me?
Mary : To keep from being an old maid!
George Bailey : You could have married Sam Wainright, or anybody else in town...
Mary : I didn't want to marry anybody else in town. I want my baby to look like you.
George Bailey : You didn't even have a honeymoon. I promised you...
[stops]
George Bailey : Your what?
Mary : My baby!
George Bailey : [stuttering] Your, your, your, ba- Mary, you on the nest?
Mary : George Baily Lassos Stork!
George Bailey : [still stuttering] Lassos a stork?
[Mary nods]
George Bailey : What're'ya... You mean you're... What is it, a boy or a girl?
Mary : [nods enthusiastically] Mmmm-hmmm!
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George Bailey : [on Mary being caught naked in the bushes after her robe slips off] This is a very interesting situation!
Mary : Please give me my robe.
George Bailey : A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day.
Mary : I'd like to have my robe.
George Bailey : Not in Bedford Falls anyway.
Mary : [after the bushes' thorns starting hurting her] Ouch! Oh!
George Bailey : Gesundheit.
Mary : George Bailey!
George Bailey : Inspires a little thought!
Mary : Give me my robe.
George Bailey : I've read about things like this.
Mary : Shame on you! I'm going to tell your mother on you.
George Bailey : Well, my mother is way up on the corner.
Mary : I'll call the police!
George Bailey : Well, they're all the way downtown. They'd be on my side.
Mary : Then I'll scream!
George Bailey : Maybe I can sell tickets.
[a car pulls up, and George is told that his father has suffered a stroke]
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George Bailey : How old are you anyway?
Mary : 18.
George Bailey : 18! Why it was only last year you were 17.
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Mrs. Hatch : Who is down there with you, Mary?
Mary : It's George Bailey, mother.
Mrs. Hatch : George Bailey? What does he want?
Mary : I don't know!
[to George]
Mary : What do you want?
George Bailey : Me? Nothing! I just came in to get warm.
Mary : [pause] He's making violent love to me, mother!
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George Bailey : Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're... and you're...
[runs out of words, sees her crying]
George Bailey : Oh, Mary, Mary...
Mary : George... George... George...
George Bailey : [kisses her intensely] Mary... Would you?... Would you?...
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Mary : You look at me as if you didn't know me.
George Bailey : Well, I don't.
Mary : You pass me on the street almost every day.
George Bailey : Me? Naw, that was a little girl named Mary Hatch, that wasn't you.
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George Bailey : OK then, I'll throw a rock at the old Granville house.
Mary : Oh no, don't. I love that old house.
George Bailey : No, you see you make a wish and then try to break some glass and you've got to be a pretty good shot nowadays too.
Mary : Oh no George don't. It's full of romance that old place. I'd like to live in it.
George Bailey : In that place?
Mary : Uh huh.
George Bailey : I wouldn't live in it as a ghost.
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Mary : Have you made up your mind?
George Bailey : How's that?
Mary : Have you made up your mind!
George Bailey : About what?
Mary : About coming in!
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Mary : [Mrs Hatch eavesdrops on George and Mary's conversation] He's making violent love to me, Mother!
Mrs. Hatch : You tell him to go right home this instant!
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Mary : I feel like a bootlegger's wife!
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George Bailey : You don't like coconuts? Say, brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from?
Mary Hatch : A new magazine! I never saw it before.
George Bailey : Of course you never. Only us explorers can get it. I've been nominated for membership in the National Geographic Society.
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Sam Wainwright : [on the phone] Tell Mary to get on the extension.
Mary : Mother's on the extension, we can...
Mrs. Hatch : [hanging up on the extension upstairs] I AM *NOT!*
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Mary Hatch : [trapped naked in a bush] Shame on you! I'll tell your mother!
George Bailey : [thoughtfully] My mother's way up on the corner there.
Mary Hatch : I'll call the police.
George Bailey : They're way downtown. Anyway, they'd be on my side.
Mary Hatch : Then I'll scream!
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Mary : Have a hectic day?
George Bailey : Oh yeah, another big red-letter day for the Baileys!
