The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Ruth Hussey: Elizabeth 'Liz' Imbrie
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Quotes
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Elizabeth Imbrie : What's this room? I've forgotten my compass.
Macaulay Connor : I'd say, south-by-southwest parlor-by-living-room.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : Oh it's all right, Tracy. We all go haywire at times and if we don't, maybe we ought to.
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Macaulay Connor : [speaking of Tracy] What are her leading characteristics?
C. K. Dexter Haven : She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.
Elizabeth Imbrie : Leading characteristics to be filled in later.
Macaulay Connor : I can fill them in right now: the rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists.
Elizabeth Imbrie : And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.
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[Mike discovers the intercom in the Lords' house]
Macaulay Connor : Uh-oh, Liz, what did I tell you? Look, how do you like this - living room, sitting room, terrace, pool, stables.
Elizabeth Imbrie : That's probably so they can talk to the horses without having them in the house.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : We've come for the body of Macaulay Connor.
C. K. Dexter Haven : I'm so glad you came. Can you use a typewriter?
Elizabeth Imbrie : No, thanks, I've got one at home.
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Macaulay Connor : C.K. Dexter Haven! What a name tag!
Elizabeth Imbrie : Macauly Connor is no homespun tag either, my pet.
Macaulay Connor : Yeah, well you just try calling him Macauly!
Elizabeth Imbrie : I knew a plain Joe Smith once. Worst rat I ever met.
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Sidney Kidd : You hate me, I trust, Miss Imbrie.
Elizabeth Imbrie : No, I-I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : I remember your honeymoon quite well. You and she on a little sail boat, the "True Love," wasn't it?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, it was. How did you know?
Elizabeth Imbrie : I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. You were terribly nice about it. You threw it in the ocean.
Macaulay Connor : Oh, one of those.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, I had the strange notion that our honeymoon was our own.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : There's a cousin, Joanna, who's definitely crazy.
Macaulay Connor : Who told you that?
Elizabeth Imbrie : Dinah.
Macaulay Connor : Well, Dinah would know.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : Where's my wandering parakeet?
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Tracy Lord : Aren't you coming Liz?
Elizabeth Imbrie : Well, it seems I've got to commit suicide first.
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Uncle Willie : [leering at Liz] Ah Ms. Imbrie, you're a vision of loveliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?
Elizabeth Imbrie : Oh champagne, I've never had enough.
Uncle Willie : You will... tonight.
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Macaulay Connor : [telling off Sidney Kidd, his boss] Quote: No hunter of buckshot in the rear is cagey, crafty Connor. Un-quote. Close paragraph.
Elizabeth Imbrie : Close job. Close bank account.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : [referring to Dinah] What's this?
Macaulay Connor : Idiot, probably.
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[Liz screams as Uncle Willie pinches her on the rear]
Macaulay Connor : Don't *do* that!
Elizabeth Imbrie : I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.
Seth Lord : Don't you think you weren't.
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Macaulay Connor : Look, who's doing the interviewing here?
Elizabeth Imbrie : Do you think she caught on somehow?
Macaulay Connor : No, she was born like that, don't let her throw you.
Elizabeth Imbrie : Do you want to take over?
Macaulay Connor : I want to go home!
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Macaulay Connor : [after Tracy has declined his last-minute marriage proposal] But they're in there! They're waiting!
Elizabeth Imbrie : Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction.
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Tracy Lord : [turns towards Liz] Maid of honour?
Elizabeth Imbrie : Matron.
Macaulay Connor : [looks at Liz, puzzled]
Elizabeth Imbrie : Joe Smith, hardware department.