Congo Maisie (1940)

Ann Sothern: Maisie Ravier

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• Maisie Ravier : [Two of the monkeys approach Maisie as she is approaching the front gate to the Compound]  Go away boys. I'm not in the mood. Go on, go on, go play. Find Tarzan.

• Maisie Ravier : Honest, you won't even know I'm here. It won't kill ya to let me bunk here. I don't snore and I won't peek. What do you say?

• Captain Finch : Say, you're the blonde Snell was looking for.

  Maisie Ravier : Yeah, Mastermind, that's right.

  Captain Finch : Well, you come with me. You're a stole-away.

  Maisie Ravier : What are you gonna do? Slap me in irons?

  Captain Finch : I could. It's the law.

  Maisie Ravier : Okay, make 'em size 12.

  Captain Finch : All right, come on, Sister.

• Maisie Ravier : Keep up those eye exercises, Captain Bligh, and pretty soon you can throw away your eyeglasses!.

• Captain Finch : Let's talk this over in a friendly way.

  Maisie Ravier : Stand aside, buster! I got a right cross that's known from Zanzibar to the Gold Coast. If I'm riled, I'm liable to use it.

  Captain Finch : Oh, hard to get, eh?

  Maisie Ravier : No, Captain. Impossible!

• Maisie Ravier : I used to work for a magician, Tonado, the Great. He taught me that. He taught me a lot. He used to saw me in two.

  Nelson : For real?

  Maisie Ravier : No, buddy, just in fun. I might have been with him yet; but, one day I made up my mind, there was no future in being sawed in half.

  Nelson : Well, what do you do now?

  Maisie Ravier : A singin' act in fancy costumes.

• Dr. Michael Shane : Give me a life boat and a couple of the boys and I'll go up river to the rubber company's landing.

  Captain Finch : I can't let you take the boys, Mr. Shane. I need every hand I got.

  Maisie Ravier : I've never been strong for rowing since an experience I had once on a lake in Central Park.

• Maisie Ravier : Am I very heavy?

  Dr. Michael Shane : Heavy enough!

• Maisie Ravier : Eh-oh. Warmed up for awhile, there; but, now it looks like snow again. How would it be if I apologize for livin' once and for all...

  Dr. Michael Shane : Shut up!

• Maisie Ravier : Are they still playing Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Kay McWade : Do you mean you get lonely sometimes?

  Dr. Michael Shane : Sure.

  Kay McWade : I don't believe it.

  Dr. Michael Shane : Compared to my place, this is Paris! I'm way up-country. I got my place cheap because no other white man would work it. Well, I'm working it and I'll keep on working it until I make a lot of money. There are plenty of times I think the money is costing me too much.

  Kay McWade : Aren't there any other white people at all?

  Dr. Michael Shane : No! About once a year, if I'm lucky, I get down to Kamala. This last trip it was 13 months until I've seen a white woman. It's been five years since I've seen a woman from home.

  Maisie Ravier : [interrupts]  Doesn't south Brooklyn count?

• Maisie Ravier : "So, so, wah wah, Dr. Shane." That's pigeon English for: Very, very bad.

  Dr. Michael Shane : What's the matter? They cut the water off in your bathroom?

  Maisie Ravier : I wouldn't know. I didn't look.

• Maisie Ravier : Why don't you just join one of those lonely hearts clubs? You know, you can write to other lonely people all over the world. Pen pals, they call 'em. You can't do near so much harm by mail.

• Dr. Michael Shane : You don't like me, do you?

  Maisie Ravier : No.

  Dr. Michael Shane : Well, have a drink. Maybe that'll make you feel better about me. Maybe you can get to like me.

  Maisie Ravier : Maybe I could. The first time I ate an oyster, I thought natured made a terrible mistake. But, I got to like oysters. So, who can tell.

• Dr. Michael Shane : What's the hurry? Sit down and be sociable.

  Maisie Ravier : Well, this certainly is your night to howl.

  Dr. Michael Shane : Well, we're stuck here for 10 days more. We may as well be friendly. Don't you ever play checkers, Maisie?

  Maisie Ravier : Only for keeps.

• Maisie Ravier : Look, Dr. Shane, would you mind letting me by? It's too late and I'm too tired to run around a table. And besides, let's face it, we're not the type.

• Maisie Ravier : What hit me?

  Dr. Michael Shane : You passed out colder than a mackerel.

  Maisie Ravier : Well, can you imagine?

• Maisie Ravier : Don't go blamin' yourself. That's just how it is. Some women can do things and others can't. And it takes a certain kind of woman to handle a certain kind of man.

• Maisie Ravier : I'm tellin' ya, he's the last guy in the world for you.

  Kay McWade : You know nothing about either of us.

  Maisie Ravier : Oh, yes, I do. Maybe I never met many people like you; but, I've seen plenty like him. Oh, he's a deluxe model , streamline chassis, white walled tires, fog lights and two horns; but, it's the same car. I know him all right.

  Kay McWade : Oh, no, you don't.

  Maisie Ravier : I oughta! I been thinkin' about him ever since I saw him, with no time out until I sleep and then I dream about him!

  Kay McWade : You're jealous! You're talking against Michael because you want him for yourself.

  Maisie Ravier : Listen, I wouldn't take him if I won him at bingo. I'm crazy about him! And I think, maybe, after today I might get him. But, no thanks! I've had my share of one-night stands. I'm lookin' for a term contract.

• Maisie Ravier : Where does pride get you, except, in a jam?

• Dr. Michael Shane : Wait! I've got a lot to say to you.

  Maisie Ravier : Look, I got to change my clothes. Honest, I'm cold!

  Dr. Michael Shane : This is important!

  Maisie Ravier : So is pneumonia. Come on, let me go.

• Maisie Ravier : [to self]  He's bad news. He's bad news. Don't give up the ship!

• Maisie Ravier : I saw you carvin' up Dr. McWade. You were in seventh heaven and you had a gleam in your eye. And out there with those fuzzy wuzzies? Say, don't kid me, as scared as you were, you were havin' the time of your life.

• Maisie Ravier : The reason you don't like yourself is cause you run out on the one job you're crazy about. That's why you go around barkin' at people. You're bored to death with those rubber plants.

• Dr. Michael Shane : She must have sensed it. You women seem to feel things like that in the air.

  Maisie Ravier : Yeah? Well, see if you can feel this in the air?

  [slaps Dr. Shane in the face] 

• [last lines] 

  Maisie Ravier : Oh, here I go again.

• Maisie Ravier : Hmh. All the modern conveniences. Electric lights, hot and cold running monkeys... .

• Dr. Michael Shane : Little girls who listen at key holes don't go to heaven.

  Maisie Ravier : I know, but sometimes you get a chance to help someone you like and I like that Mrs. McWade.

• Maisie Ravier : What was that?

  Dr. Michael Shane : A baboon drumming.

  Maisie Ravier : Now, who'd give a baboon a drum, missionaries?

• Maisie Ravier : Hey, what happens to me? Can I come along?

  Dr. Michael Shane : Suit yourself.

  Maisie Ravier : Well, it's you or the crocodiles, and they got more teeth.

• Maisie Ravier : You better operate.

  Dr. Michael Shane : I'm not practicing medicine.

  Maisie Ravier : Have you stopped practicing being a man?

• Maisie Ravier : Hey, wait a minute. This is not how you look at a place. I've even had fun in Philadelphia - in good company.