A character in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Mrs. Marcus quotes from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Ethel Merman

Tied for most-quoted character in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963): in 7 of its 26 quotes
Most scenes with: Col. Hawthorne (3), Sylvester (3), Russell (2)

Scenes with Mrs. Marcus

7 scenes
[First lines; the car is on the run. The driver is non other than the elderly criminal Smiler Grogan. He passed the other cars and a truck and jumped off the side of the hilly road, and crashed down below. All the cars pull over one by one, the men quickly jump out in shock at having just witnessed everything]

Whoa! Hey d-did ya see it, the way he went sailing right out there? He just went sailing right out there.

It was terrible, I m-a-mean just terrible. He musta been doin' over eighty ya know.

An ambulance - we better, we oughta call an ambulance.

Oh...Oh look at that car.

[The group starts bickering and talking over one another]

He went sailing right out there.

How 'bout you doin' ninety miles an hour?

I wasn't doin' - he was passin' me.

We weren't standin' still when he passed us...

I never saw such a crazy guy in my life!...

Come on, let's get down there!

[The group immediately starts scrambling down the rocky hill] [to Emmeline and Mrs. Marcus]

W...We're gonna go down there, you stay in the car.

Emmeline

Now Russell, be careful, remember your condition.

Mrs. Marcus
[gestures her hand with disdain]

Eh.

[to himself]

Ooh, boy the way he just sailed out there. [follows down after the group]

Jolly nasty accident there. Jolly lucky nobody was hurt.

Mrs. Marcus

Where did you get that funny accent? Are you from Harvard or something?

Harvard? Rather not. I'm English.

Mrs. Marcus

Sounds so foreign.

[eyes widen]

Really?

Man in Car in Desert
[drives and stops by]

Trouble? Having any trouble?

Mrs. Marcus

Yes, and we don't need any help from you!

Man in Car in Desert
[Brief pause] [offended]

Well! [drives off]

Mrs. Marcus

Now for the last time! Are we calling Sylvester or not?!

No! We are not! And I'll tell you why not. Because your son Sylvester is an irresponsible, unreliable, big loudmouth no good bum! Who if he isn't a crook? It's because he doesn't have the brains or ambition even to BECOME a crook!

I say: Good show!

[on the phone]

Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me? Where are you?

Mrs. Marcus
[on the phone]

I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's garage in a place called Plaster City! And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened?!

[on the phone]

Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom.

Mrs. Marcus
[on the phone]

Will you shut up and listen?!

[on the phone]

Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy.

Mrs. Marcus
[on the phone]

Sylvester-!

[on the phone]

I'm coming to get you, Mom!

Mrs. Marcus
[on the phone]

Shut up and let me talk-!

[on the phone; interrupting his mother]

Everything is gonna be all right! [hangs up]

[to Mrs. Marcus]

Well?

Mrs. Marcus
[to Lennie; in a calm shock]

So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because "everything is going to be all right". [to Emmeline; shouting] EXACTLY LIKE YOUR FATHER! A big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!

[Benjy and Dingy run by]

Who are they?

Mrs. Marcus

I don't know.

From this morning?

Mrs. Marcus

Yes.

[Captain Culpeper goes by]

Who is he?

Mrs. Marcus

I don't know.

[Otto Meyer runs by]

Who is he?

Mrs. Marcus

I don't know.

Mama, how many people are mixed up in this thing? [two cab drivers run by] Who are they? Cabbies? Mama, this thing is like a convention.

[Last lines; after they got injured by the ladder and putting the men into the prison hospital with bandages and casts] [to Culpeper]

It's all your fault, It's your fault right from beginning to end!

You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous!

Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no! You just had to go and grab up the whole scene, baby.

We had 350,000 bucks right in our hands.

14 into $350,000...

[groans]

Oh, shut up!

I wish I knew what they're going to do to us. But no matter what happens to us... [turns to Culpeper] ...what happens to you, I hope will be worse!

I don't think you have to worry about that. My wife is divorcing me; my mother in-law is suing me for damages; my daughter is petitioning the court to get her name changed; my pension has been revoked, and the ONLY reason, that you ten idiots will very likely get off lightly, is because the judge will have me up there...to throw the book at!

2nd Cabbie

Awww...that's tough! [laughs along with the 3rd Cabbie who smiles to Culpeper]

I'd like to think that sometime, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, there will be something that I could laugh at, anything.

Mrs. Marcus
[Benjy finished eating the banana and throws the banana peel on the floor. Mrs. Marcus, Emmeline and Monica enter the hospital room, wearing blue prison dresses] [yelling at the bandaged men]

Now see here, you idiots, it's all your fault, because if you hadn't...! [slips on the banana peel and falls back-first on the floor]

[horrified]

Mama!

Mrs. Marcus
[All the hospitalized men, except Sylvester and Culpeper, burst out laughing uproariously] [yelling while being put on the stretcher and taken away by the doctors]

Don't you dare touch me! Get away from me! Let me go! Leave me alone...!!!
[Then Culpeper joins the laughter]

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