Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Shelley Winters: Shirley Newman

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• Shirley Newman : That is the most beautiful story I ever heard.

• Shirley Newman : [taking the microphone onto the dance floor]  Uh, attenzione! Uh, attenzione! Uh, uh, ladies and gentlemen, may I have our attention, please?

  Youngest Newman boy : Is mommy gonna sing?

  Phil Newman : Who knows?

• Phil Newman : How would you like every time you walked down the street to be reminded of your dead husband?

  Shirley Newman : How would I know? You never gave me a chance to find out, God forbid.

• Shirley Newman : When I think of the thing that the three of you have done...

  Phil Newman : Stop it, honey. You're making... The three of us?

  Shirley Newman : Don't worry. I saw the other two names at the express office. The same thing, month after month, year after year, a check for Mrs. Campbell. How you all must have loved that boy. You know, and I didn't even know that you knew Braddock and Young.

• Shirley Newman : What's the matter with you, ya look sick?

  Phil Newman : No, no, it's just that when someone finds out something they weren't supposed to know about, it's a...

• Shirley Newman : [mixing broken Italian with English while talking on the phone, then turning to the other ladies]  Three lessons Berlitz...

  [she snaps her fingers] 

• Shirley Newman : Grazie. Grazie very much.

  Lauren Young : I'll be damned.

  Fritzie Braddock : Why didn't they tell us something?

  Shirley Newman : Because, I'll tell you. They are still Boy Scouts. Still full of schoolyard ideals. They're still playing movies. You know, "Hell's Angels" with the chewing gum on the googles, you don't talk about a dead buddy.

  Fritzie Braddock : They're sentimental slobs. That's what they are.

• Shirley Newman : If we should miss her, you give her a message. You tell her we know the whole story and it's perfectly all right.

  Rosa : You know the whole story?

  Fritzie Braddock : That's right.

  Rosa : Everything, you know?

  Lauren Young : We think so.

  Rosa : Wonderful, for American ladies to be so understanding.

  Shirley Newman : Well, you know, it could have happened to any woman.

  Fritzie Braddock : Oh, of course it could.

  Rosa : But she was a child, 16 years old, warm and wild. How could she know which one was the father? Heh, heh, heh. And for you to understand...

• Shirley Newman : And as far as you're concerned, Mr. Hell's Angels, just don't ever touch me again. Your laundry'll be done and your dinner'll be ready, but as for your connubial pleasures, you can just...

  Phil Newman : That's all you can think about, when this kid's about to run off with a married man?

• Shirley Newman : All my life I wanted a daughter. With me, three, three sons. With her you have a girl.

  Phil Newman : I couldn't help it. I didn't do anything different.

• Phil Newman : What's the matter?

  Shirley Newman : Nothing. I wondered how you were, darling, how you're feeling, and why you've been sending some Italian broad a check every month for the last 20 years!

• Shirley Newman : Daddy?

  Phil Newman : What?

  Shirley Newman : You're not just Daddy - you're *Big* Daddy.

• Phil Newman : Eddie was no longer around and, gosh, how I missed him. The little things he used to do. The way he'd climb into the cockpit, put his chewing gum on his helmet, pull down his goggles and say, "Okay, guys, let's get one for the gipper."

  Shirley Newman : Wasn't that from a Pat O'Brien movie?

  Phil Newman : Details. My heart is breaking. She's hitting me with details.

• Phil Newman : Call me a sentimental fool, if you want, but we had a thing in those days: we never talked about a dead buddy. Didn't you see "Hell's Angels"?

  Shirley Newman : That was a different war.

• Shirley Newman : When think about it, I get - I get goose pimples all over my entire body.

• Rosa : It's wonderful, for American ladies to be so understanding.

  Shirley Newman : Well, you know it could have happened to any woman.

  Fritzie Braddock : Oh, of course it could.

  Rosa : But, she was a child of 16 years old. Warm and wile. How could she know which one was the father? Oh, and for you to understand. It's beautiful! Because, they, your husbands needed comfort and she needed comfort, so they - gave each other - they - it's beautiful. Isn't it?