Blue Hawaii (1961)

Angela Lansbury: Sarah Lee Gates

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• Chad Gates : I like my job, mum. It's fun, it's interesting and I meet a lot of nice people.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Nonsense. Tourists aren't people. They're... They're tourists.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Now that Chadwick's home, I'm sure he's got all that foolishness out of his system, after the war.

  Fred Gates : Sarah Lee, how many times do I have to tell you, he was not in a war.

  Sarah Lee Gates : I know you're right, Daddy, but if I don't tell myself there was a war, I have a most depressive feeling Chadwick's just wasted two years.

• Sarah Lee Gates : My baby's home from the big house

  Fred Gates : Oh, Sarah Lee, will you forget those old movies?

• Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick think of who you are. Remember you come from a fine family.

  Chad Gates : You'll do enough remembering for both of us, ma.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh Daddy, what did we do wrong?

  Fred Gates : Offhand I'd say we got married.

• Sarah Lee Gates : And he didn't even give his momma any goodnight sugar.

• Sarah Lee Gates : You're up early this morning son.

  Chad Gates : I have to, I've got a job.

  Sarah Lee Gates : A job? Working?

• Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick, I think it would be much impressier if you wore your uniform with all the medals you won.

  Chad Gates : Oh I didn't win any medals, Mom.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Of course you won medals. What were all those on your soldier suit?

  Chad Gates : Just marksmanship and good conduct.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, you see there.

  Chad Gates : Every soldier wins one if he hits the target instead of an officer.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick's a growing boy, I don't think it's appropriate of you to give him intoxicating libations.

• Sarah Lee Gates : [after seeing Chad and Maile dancing to "Rock a Hula Rock"]  Daddy, I'm gonna to have a headache. A dreadful headache!

• Sarah Lee Gates : I woke up when I heard our dog barking, and I thought Chadwick was coming in then. But then I realized that it couldn't be, 'cause we don't have a dog.

• Sarah Lee Gates : What was that?

  Fred Gates : Something we may have to get used to, Sarah Lee. It's called the sound of youth.

• Sarah Lee Gates : You put me in mind of my great grandfather on my side, Captain Matthew Polk. Oh, he was one of the bravest men in the War between the States. Oh, the daring deeds that man performed. His bravery under fire. His courage on the field of battle made us all proud to be Polks. Oh, it's such a shame Captain Polk was a damn Yankee.

• Chad Gates : Mom, I'm sorry, honestly. But it wasn't my fault.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, I know that, dear. It's your friends. Mostly that Duval girl. She's the one to blame.

  Chad Gates : Maile had nothing to do with it.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Well she was there, wasn't she? And you got that job working in her tourist place. Well, who else can we blame? She's pulling you down to her level.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Why'd you take off your soldier suit? You look so handsome in it - just like Stonewall Jackson.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Fetch me a Mai Tai, Ping Pong.

• Sarah Lee Gates : I don't want you wastin' your precious time on those beach boys or that native girl.

• Sarah Lee Gates : They get absolutely hilarious at parties.

  Fred Gates : They get absolutely stoned, is what they get.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Yes.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Daddy, aren't you forgettin' yourself?

  Fred Gates : I'm trying, Mother. I'm trying.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Hey, you got some sugar for your Mama?

• Sarah Lee Gates : Land! My son, drivin' tourists around like a chauffeur! It's a dis-grace.

  Jack Kelman : [chuckles]  I don't know. When you married Fred, he was just a chauffeur - driving bananas around in my old truck. I'd rather drive girls than bananas any day.