Ann Miller credited as playing...
Essie Carmichael
- Essie Carmichael: I'll get in my dancing clothes and be right down.
- Boris Kolenkhov: Aw, my pavlova, you are like a beautiful swan.
- [Essie exits]
- Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Is she making any progress, Kolenkhov?
- Boris Kolenkhov: Confidentially, she stinks.
- Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: As long as she's having fun.
- Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: If it's illegal to manufacture fireworks without a permit, then I guess we're guilty of that too, because we've been doing it a long time.
- Penny Sycamore: I don't feel guilty, do you, Essie?
- Essie Carmichael: No.
- Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby: [to Alice] If you had any sense, young woman, you'd stay where you belong and stop being ambitious.
- Essie Carmichael: Shall I sock her, Alice?
- Rheba: Grandpa go to the graduation exercises today?
- Essie Carmichael: Guess so.
- Rheba: I wonder how many people Grandpa's going to bring home for dinner tonight.
- Essie Carmichael: I don't know, it all depends if he goes walking in a park.
- Rheba: Well let him bring them, I'll be ready for them.
- Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: [to Martin] Our records show you owe back income tax for 14 years.
- Ed Carmichael: Hey wait a minute, mister, that's too far back, that's outlawed ain't it?
- Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: What's your name?
- Ed Carmichael: What difference does that make?
- Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: You ever file a tax return?
- Ed Carmichael: No sir.
- Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent: What was your income last year?
- Ed Carmichael: I don't know, about $50, wasn't it, Essie?
- Essie Carmichael: I don't know.