Katherine Helmond credited as playing...
Edith Mintz
- Andrew: Champagne for everyone.
- Joanna: Andrew, I'd like a beer.
- Edith Mintz: A beer?
- Joanna: [takes a swig from a bottle] Mmmmm, good stuff.
- Edith Mintz: Cigarette, darling?
- Annie: I don't smoke, Mother.
- [to Grant]
- Annie: Do I?
- Grant Stayton: Of course you smoke. You've always smoked.
- Edith Mintz: I smoke.
- Dr. Norman Korman: Why don't we all smoke?
- Grant Stayton: Well, why do I have to smoke? I never smoked. I get sick when I smoke. Why is everyone always trying to make me do what I don't want to do?
- Edith Mintz: Grant, we are not interested in your therapy.
- Grant Stayton: I had my nervous breakdown and I didn't have therapy. I never had therapy!
- Edith Mintz: [from her NYC penthouse] He called you a what? Joanna, why are you so upset? What do you care what some carpenter from Elk Snout thinks of you?
- Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I'm sure I'm just premenstrual.
- Edith Mintz: Well then, you must go right back to bed for at least two days...
- Edith Mintz: [to her maid, who's been feeding Edith's small dog] Inga! You don't shove the food down Shitake's throat. You place it on her tongue. Don't they have dogs in Sweden?