Harry Gold:
You've been getting into trouble, at your age, Mrs. Vanderdoe?
Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
--Alison Skipworth (as ) in Coming-Out Party
Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
--Alison Skipworth (as ) in Coming-Out Party
Warden George Waddell:
Now, don't take any wooden nickels.
Countess von Claudwig: Ha-ha, what an excruciating sense of humor you have.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Countess von Claudwig: Ha-ha, what an excruciating sense of humor you have.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Elmer Hicks:
I thought you were dead!
Countess von Claudwig: You mean you hoped I was.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Countess von Claudwig: You mean you hoped I was.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Countess von Claudwig:
I manage to pick up something nice wherever I go.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Countess von Claudwig:
Many a famous chambermaid began as an unknown actress.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
Countess von Claudwig:
When I regain my health, I shall plan a life of dignity and rectitude.
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
--Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer
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 (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across
--Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across
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 (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across
--Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across
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.
--Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across
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.
--Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across