Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Lee Grant: Fritzie Braddock

Quotes 

• Pete : Sarge hasn't changed much has he - still a million laughs?

  Fritzie Braddock : Oh, yeah. He's a regular Mardi Gras all year round.

• Fritzie Braddock : Why don't ya turn blue, fatso!

• Walter Braddock : Hey! What kind of an electric toothbrush is this, huh? It hit me right in the eye!

  Fritzie Braddock : It's a water pick. I bought it at the airport in New York. It sprays the gums.

  Walter Braddock : It's a lucky thing I'm not blind. Every new gadget that comes out, you got to buy it.

• Fritzie Braddock : What are you, some kind of a nut Jekyll and Hyde? One minute you're a puppy dog, the next minute you're an animal.

• Fritzie Braddock : Whadda we do in the morning?

  Walter Braddock : I can't.

  Fritzie Braddock : You can't what?

  Walter Braddock : Whatever it is, I can't. I've got a meeting.

  Fritzie Braddock : All right. Then I won't either.

  Walter Braddock : You won't what?

  Fritzie Braddock : Whatever it is you can't, I won't.

  Walter Braddock : Well, then don't.

  Fritzie Braddock : I won't.

  Walter Braddock : Okay! Anything you say. Just let's have a good time.

  Fritzie Braddock : All right, let's have a good time.

  Walter Braddock : Okay!

• Carla Campbell : Oh, Mrs. Braddock, I hope you will understand. I am very superstitious. Would you mind going out the back door?

  Fritzie Braddock : The back; door?

  Carla Campbell : Yes, I know it sounds silly, but we have a custom. When an unexpected guest goes out the same door he came in, it's bad luck.

  Fritzie Braddock : Oh, I never heard that.

  Carla Campbell : It's Italian. Crazy, huh?

• 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...

• Walter Braddock : Those doctor's reports are right. She ain't my kid.

  Fritzie Braddock : Not your kid? With that big mouth on her. Way she walks. Color of her eyes. Stubborn streak down her a mile wide. You tell me she's not your kid? Well, she's not Albert Schweitzer's kid, I'll tell ya that.

  Walter Braddock : Hey, Fritzie, you really, you really think...

  Fritzie Braddock : Listen, don't you look at me so innocent with them big rolly polly eyes. I'm the one who's gonna have the explainin' to do. When the kid comes to the States.

  Walter Braddock : She gonna stay with us?

  Fritzie Braddock : Where's she gonna stay, with strangers? A daughter's place is with her father.

• Fritzie Braddock : Oh, what a lovely place! Oh, may I come in? May I? Ah. Oh, belly. Very, very belly.

• 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?