Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

Lupe Velez: Carmelita Lindsay

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• [first lines] 

  Shipboard Reporter : Oh, Mr. Lindsay, I'm from the News. Are you going around the world on this trip?

  Dennis Lindsay : No. We're just going to Honolulu.

  Shipboard Reporter : Oh, on a business trip?

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, no! That's why we are going on dis trip: to get away from business. Dis is my two-time honeymoon. The first time we went on our honeymoon, we didn't go. But, dis time, the only business is gonna be: is gonna be nobody's business.

• Carmelita Lindsay : So! You were going to gently broken me the news, eh?

  Dennis Lindsay : Camelita, you know...

  Carmelita Lindsay : Well! You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna break somebody's neck - and not so very gentle!

• Carmelita Lindsay : All the time is business, business, business, business! This is supposed to be my two-time honeymoon and what happens? You two-time me!

• Carmelita Lindsay : Everything we do, every place we go, it's always business, business, business! You never do anything to please me! On, no!

  Dennis Lindsay : Carmelita, that's not true.

  Carmelita Lindsay : It is true! Get out of my way! I just might as well be married to a rubber stamp. Our home is always like a post office!

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : We'll see you kids later.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, no! You won't see me later! Because, I won't be there!

• Dennis Lindsay : Carmelita, wait a minute. Carmelita, look here! Don't you cause another scene!

  Carmelita Lindsay : There's gonna be a scene all right!

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : What's the matter?

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, it's that row I had with Dennis.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Well, this isn't the first row you've had with Dennis.

  Carmelita Lindsay : I know! But, this time he don't fight nice.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : What do you mean he doesn't fight nice?

  Carmelita Lindsay : This time he fight for keeps. He don't wanna make up with me.

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : Nothing doing. I won't do it.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, yes you will!

• Carmelita Lindsay : Come on, let's go and see the pusser!

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Pusser? Purser.

• Carmelita Lindsay : You walk like Donald Duke.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Donald Duke? Donald Duck! Say, I better duck out of here before we're caught together.

• Carmelita Lindsay : Lord Epping is not on board.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : What?

  Carmelita Lindsay : Sure. I already asked the pusser.

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : Look, we must work fast. Don't give her a chance to think right.

  Carmelita Lindsay : You know me. I can talk faster than that!

• Carmelita Lindsay : Did you talk to Dennis.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yep.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, goodie goodie! Then, I go and kiss him and make up and then we go to the party.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yes, but, you're not going with him to the party tonight.

  Carmelita Lindsay : I'm not?

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : No, he's taking another girl, a blonde.

  Carmelita Lindsay : What! He can't do that! That's big-a-tree!

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Bigamy. Bigamy!

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : You've got to attack him with - negative psychology.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh! Sounds good. Where I get one?

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Look, what I mean is this: he's doing this to make you jealous!

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Now, when he sees that you are *not* jealous, he'll stop and call the whole thing off.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, then I have nothing to worry about.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : See!

  Carmelita Lindsay : But, first I knock his block off! That's what I'll do!

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : Listen to me! Listen. You've got to fight fire with fire.

  Carmelita Lindsay : I'm already burned up!

• Carmelita Lindsay : I go on the other side of the boat. It doesn't smell so good around here.

  [sniffs and exits] 

  Aunt Della Lindsay : Why, you nasty little...

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : De-dut-dut-dut, I know just exactly what you're going to say.

  Aunt Della Lindsay : I don't use language like that.

• Mr. George Skinner : Maybe I could help you get even with him.

  Carmelita Lindsay : What do you mean?

  Mr. George Skinner : Well, I've been invited to the Baldwin's dinner party too. But, I haven't any girl friend.

  Carmelita Lindsay : So what?

  Mr. George Skinner : Well, you could help me put over a deal with Baldwin and at the same time get even with Dennis - by making him jealous.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh-oh! I see what you mean. You wanna fight fire with fire.

  Mr. George Skinner : That's right.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Okie-dookie, Mr. Skinny! We put out some fires together.

• Carmelita Lindsay : Hello, Mr. Skinny.

  Mr. George Skinner : Hello.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Are you ready to put out some fires?

  Mr. George Skinner : I'm ready to break somebody's neck!

  Carmelita Lindsay : Me too.

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : [pretending to be Lord Epping]  Mrs. Lindsay, well...

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, I'm no more Mrs. Lindsay.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : No?

  Carmelita Lindsay : No, I'm the future Mrs. Skinny.

• Carmelita Lindsay : Dennis, Dennis, if we sink, we swim together!