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Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Wesley Addy, Ilka Chase, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Ida Lupino, and Everett Sloane in The Big Knife (1955)

Ilka Chase: Patty Benedict

The Big Knife

Ilka Chase credited as playing...

Patty Benedict

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  • Charlie Castle: Patty, darling,
  • [Kisses her on the cheek as he walks by.]
  • Charlie Castle: how are you, sweetie?
  • Patty Benedict: Light my cigarette, Chuck.
  • Charlie Castle: Sure.
  • [Grabs lighter off table.]
  • Patty Benedict: What happened to you last night? I looked around, and you'd gone. I asked Mike, but ...
  • Charlie Castle: Oh, Smiley Coy had somebody he wanted me to meet. I dunno, some of those stripped shirts from out of town.
  • [Walks to bar.]
  • Charlie Castle: Who wants what from the lemonade stand? Bud...
  • Buddy Bliss: No. No, thanks.
  • Patty Benedict: I like the airiness of this room.
  • [Walks a bit and notices a painting on the wall.]
  • Patty Benedict: Oh, French paintings, dear one?
  • Charlie Castle: Yeah.
  • Patty Benedict: Don't you buy American any more?
  • Charlie Castle: Oh, let nothing dismay you, Sweetie. I don't know one painter from another.
  • Buddy Bliss: He doesn't know one painter from another.
  • Charlie Castle: I wouldn't want my fans to think I'd gone arty. They're... uh, Marion's hobby.
  • Buddy Bliss: Yeah, they're his wife's hobby.
  • Patty Benedict: How long do I know you, Chuck?
  • Charlie Castle: Oh, about nine or ten years.
  • Patty Benedict: When we first met, all you could talk about was the New Deal, or the Fair Deal, or some deal.
  • Charlie Castle: I believed in it.
  • Patty Benedict: What do you believe in now?
  • Charlie Castle: Health, hard work, rare roast beef, and good scripts.

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