The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Gene Tierney: Poppy
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Quotes
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Poppy : You don't drink, Mother Gin Sling? Is your name Chinese or English?
'Mother' Gin Sling : Indeed Gin Sling is English. It's a nickname as common in this part of the world as the drink sold over the counter.
Poppy : Why Gin Sling? Why not Whiskey Soda?
'Mother' Gin Sling : There was a girl called Whiskey Soda too. And another one - Martini. And one called Scotch Highball, another Benedictine. In other places I might have been called Rose, or Violet, or Lily, or, eh, even Poppy.
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Poppy : The other places are like kindergardens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination. It has a ghastly familiarity like a half-remembered dream. *Anything* could happen here... any moment...