Jane Russell: Mary 'Mame' Carson

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Mary 'Mame' Carson

Mary 'Mame' Carson: [This is the cut out speech that Jane Russell makes during her song, "Lookin' for Trouble"] That's all I need, is a man! Any type, any style! Just so, he's a man! Now, he can be short, tall, or elongated! He can be thin, muscular, obese... that's fat, you know! Any direction will do. He can be sweet, sensitive, intelligent, a little coy, but not a boy! Now, don't get me wrong! 17 to 70 will do! It ain't the age, it's the attitude! However, there is one requisite I must make: he has to be... brief! So bring him on, stand back, and watch my own private chemical reaction start to work!

Annie Farrell: Now, look here, Chesty, just because this guy gave you back to the Indians, is no reason to commit social suicide. You can't go running around in that nifty little item you're wearing either. Mame, I made that for you five years ago.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: I didn't want to be conspicuous.
Annie Farrell: Conspicuous? Why you look like something before television.

'Waco' Mosby: Well, I can just about tell you where he spent his money.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: He's just naturally friendly.
'Waco' Mosby: Well, look, he better not get naturally friendly around you. He's a genuine snake in the grass.

George Hodges: What did I do?
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Well, you took Katy away from here didn't you? Says I've been as ornery as a bull makin' the matin' season. Best Secretary I ever had. Best friend I ever had! And then this snake crawls into the Garden of Eden and hands her an apple.
George Hodges: Szzzzzzz.

'Waco' Mosby: Well, by gosh and by glory, what are you hangin' around here for? You ought to be doin' somethin' about that.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Like what?
'Waco' Mosby: Look, oil ain't the only thing you're rich in, girl. If I was that Phil Barton and hadn't seen hide nor hair of you in six weeks, I'd come stompin' through that door expectin' to see somebody dressed up like a jezebel in curls and all that stuff. Not with your tail bustin' out of a pair of saddle-worn Levis.

Mary 'Mame' Carson: I think I inherited a little wildcattin' blood from my Dad. I think I'll take a flyer on my own.

Mary 'Mame' Carson: [singing] It really is a sin to be in such a spin today...

Mary 'Mame' Carson: Oh, gosh! Phil will be here any minute and I gotta get outta these pants and into somethin' slinky. Well, I got to get cleaned up a little bit, you.
Katherine 'Katy' Hodges: Well, what do you know.
George Hodges: Somebody's gone and told her there's a difference between boys and girls.

Mary 'Mame' Carson: Would you like a drink?
Phil Barton: Thanks.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Uno momento. Let's see. A jigger of bourbon, a dash of bitters, and a dash of soda.
Phil Barton: I see you haven't forgotten, huh?
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Nah. I never forget anything I really want to remember.

George Hodges: May I say, Miss Carson, that you look like something against the law?
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Thank you, George.
George Hodges: The occasion calls for champagne; which, by a lucky happenstance I'm just about to open.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Well, you go right ahead. I'll have a bourbon and branch water.

'Waco' Mosby: You're doggone tootin'. We're goin' to Paris and we'll see new faces, meet new people. I hear they got a lot of fereigners over there.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Ah, what's the use. As soon as they find out who I am, they'll run like a jack rabbit or howl like a coyote.
'Waco' Mosby: That's it! You just said it.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: What?
'Waco' Mosby: They won't know who you are.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: I don't savvy?
'Waco' Mosby: We'll go in cognito. We won't tell a soul who you are what you are. We'll sneak out of Texas like s rustler with the law snappin' at his backside.

'Waco' Mosby: Nobody will know you're a rich girl. You just be yourself.
Mary 'Mame' Carson: Myself.
'Waco' Mosby: Yeah! Just like any other girl out to nail some poor unsuspectin' - well, I mean, when you meet fellas it'll be you they'll be after, not your money, because they won't know you got any money. So, if anybody tries to stake a claim, you can bet its based on pure prospectin'.