The Spoilers (1942)

Marietta Canty: Idabelle

Quotes 

• Idabelle : I sure hope there's some colored folks on that boat. I is gettin' mighty tired pretending Eskimos are from Virginia.

• Cherry Malotte : Was anybody hurt?

  Idabelle : Whoever heard tell 'em of a shootin' when nobody was hurt? They don't go pointin' a gun at somebody unless they figures to hit 'em, does they?

• Idabelle : Colored boy! Where'd y'all come from?

  Glennister : [in blackface]  How's y'all sweet thing. I figured it was about time for us to get acquainted!

  Idabelle : Is that so? Well, if y'alls think I'm the common kind that messes around with anything that comes along. I says if you thinks I'm that kind of a person, I'll pour y'all a cup of coffee.

  [Glennister takes off his hat] 

  Idabelle : Here, now, wait a minute! Y'all ain't no colored boy! You's washable. Why, it's Mr. Glennister! Watch you doin' runnin' 'round here raisin' up a lady's hopes like that for? Wait'll Miss Cherry sees you!

  Glennister : Hold on a minute, Idabelle. Let's get rid of this Alabama tan first and you better wash this shirt.

  Idabelle : But, Mr. Glennister, you's more handsome now than yous ever been before.

  Glennister : And Miss Cherry might feel the same way and then I'd have to spend the rest of my life in a smokehouse. Now, go on and get me some soap and water.

• Cherry Malotte : Darling, get a bottle of brandy and a dozen hard boiled eggs.

  Idabelle : Better get a dozen bottles of brandy and one egg, Miss Cherry. Eggs is scarcer than watermelons around here.

• Idabelle : Miss Cherry, you shore looks like the kind of medicine good for what ails a man!

  Cherry Malotte : All we need then is the man, eh?

  Idabelle : If you's referring to me, Miss Cherry, they shore is an absence of good, solid color in this here country!

  Cherry Malotte : No chance of choosin', Idabelle?

  Idabelle : No. No pickin' neither!

• Cherry Malotte : Idabelle where are you?

  Idabelle : Here I is, Miss Cherry. Here I is!

  Cherry Malotte : What are you doing with that dress?

  Idabelle : Oh, I just smoothin' it out a bit. I heard that loudmouth baboon yellin' that the boat was in. I figured y'all wanted to meet him in style.

• Idabelle : Does I or don't I?

• Idabelle : I guess I would feel better once I gets me on that couch.