Donna Reed credited as playing...
Mary Hatch
- 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?
- [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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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!
- 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]
- George Bailey: How old are you anyway?
- Mary: 18.
- George Bailey: 18! Why it was only last year you were 17.
- 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!
- 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?...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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!
- 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.
- 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!*
- 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!