Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)

Lady Gertrude Allwyn: My dear, I am an old woman. I have travelled at home and abroad, and NEVER, NEVER have I known any good to come out of a concertina.

Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)

Lady Gertrude Allwyn: The story is from a novel entitled Lavender and Old Lace, but the name of the cinema has been changed to... um... She Done Him Plenty.

Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)

Lady Gertrude Allwyn: What is that?
Princess Olga: Why it's one of those things, you know, one of those come-to-you go-from-you things.
Lady Gertrude Allwyn: A concertina. And very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls.

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