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Claudette Colbert, Percy Kilbride, Fred MacMurray, and Marjorie Main in The Egg and I (1947)

Claudette Colbert: Betty

The Egg and I

Claudette Colbert credited as playing...

Betty

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Quotes5

  • Betty MacDonald: They don't want us here - The wind and the mountains and the rain - They're fighting us all the time. We've got to get out of this place before it's too late!
  • Betty MacDonald: I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
  • Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Take another one of them cookies, why don't ya? Plenty where they come from. I'll get you some to take home.
  • Betty MacDonald: They're wonderful. How do you make them?
  • Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Just a drop of this and a drop of that, mix it together and shove it in the oven.
  • Frank 'Pa' Kettle: Got the water tank up. Will have running water any minute now.
  • Betty MacDonald: Oh, thanks. Isn't that a relief?
  • Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Never seen the sense of running water in my house m'self. 'Drather get mine straight out of the ground where the good lord put it.
  • Betty MacDonald: I've never been to a county fair before.
  • Bob: You haven't lived.

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