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Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, and Harry Carey in The Spoilers (1942)

Marietta Canty: Idabelle

The Spoilers

Marietta Canty credited as playing...

Idabelle

Quotes8

  • Idabelle: I sure hope there's some colored folks on that boat. I is gettin' mighty tired pretending Eskimos are from Virginia.
  • Cherry Malotte: Was anybody hurt?
  • Idabelle: Whoever heard tell 'em of a shootin' when nobody was hurt? They don't go pointin' a gun at somebody unless they figures to hit 'em, does they?
  • Idabelle: Colored boy! Where'd y'all come from?
  • Glennister: [in blackface] How's y'all sweet thing. I figured it was about time for us to get acquainted!
  • Idabelle: Is that so? Well, if y'alls think I'm the common kind that messes around with anything that comes along. I says if you thinks I'm that kind of a person, I'll pour y'all a cup of coffee.
  • [Glennister takes off his hat]
  • Idabelle: Here, now, wait a minute! Y'all ain't no colored boy! You's washable. Why, it's Mr. Glennister! Watch you doin' runnin' 'round here raisin' up a lady's hopes like that for? Wait'll Miss Cherry sees you!
  • Glennister: Hold on a minute, Idabelle. Let's get rid of this Alabama tan first and you better wash this shirt.
  • Idabelle: But, Mr. Glennister, you's more handsome now than yous ever been before.
  • Glennister: And Miss Cherry might feel the same way and then I'd have to spend the rest of my life in a smokehouse. Now, go on and get me some soap and water.
  • Cherry Malotte: Darling, get a bottle of brandy and a dozen hard boiled eggs.
  • Idabelle: Better get a dozen bottles of brandy and one egg, Miss Cherry. Eggs is scarcer than watermelons around here.
  • Idabelle: Miss Cherry, you shore looks like the kind of medicine good for what ails a man!
  • Cherry Malotte: All we need then is the man, eh?
  • Idabelle: If you's referring to me, Miss Cherry, they shore is an absence of good, solid color in this here country!
  • Cherry Malotte: No chance of choosin', Idabelle?
  • Idabelle: No. No pickin' neither!
  • Cherry Malotte: Idabelle where are you?
  • Idabelle: Here I is, Miss Cherry. Here I is!
  • Cherry Malotte: What are you doing with that dress?
  • Idabelle: Oh, I just smoothin' it out a bit. I heard that loudmouth baboon yellin' that the boat was in. I figured y'all wanted to meet him in style.
  • Idabelle: Does I or don't I?
  • Idabelle: I guess I would feel better once I gets me on that couch.

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