Mary Hatch What are you doing, picketing?
Played by Donna Reed 
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) · 69 quotes
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) · 69 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in It's a Wonderful Life (1946): in 16 of its 69 quotes
Most scenes with: George Bailey (11)
He's making violent love to me, mother.
More lines from Mary Hatch
2 quotes Mary Hatch Mary Hatch Remember that night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for.
Scenes with Mary Hatch
13 scenes Young Mary Hatch Is this the ear you can't hear on? [whispering into George's deaf ear] George Bailey - I'll love you till the day I die.
Young Violet
[commenting on George]
I like him.
Young Mary
You like every boy.
Young Violet
What's wrong with that?
Young George
Make up your mind yet?
Young Mary
I'll take chocolate.
Young George
With coconuts?
Young Mary
I don't like coconuts.
Young George
Don't like coconuts? Say brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from? [pulls out a National Geographic magazine] Look-it here, from Tahiti, the Fiji Islands, Coral Sea.
Young Mary
A new magazine! I never saw it.
Young George
'Course you never. This is just for explorers. It just so happens I've been nominated for membership in the National Geographic Society. I'm going out exploring some day, just you watch. And I might even have a harem, and maybe even one or two wives.
Well, hello.
Mary Hello. You look at me as if you didn't know me.
Well, I don't.
Mary You've passed me on the street almost every day.
Me?
Mary Uh-huh.
Uh-uh. That was a little girl named Mary Hatch. That wasn't you.
You know, if it wasn't me talking, I'd say you were the prettiest girl in town.
Mary Well, why don't you say it?
I don't know. Maybe I will say it. How old are you anyway?
Mary Eighteen.
Eighteen! Why, it was only last year you were seventeen.
Mary Too young or too old?
Oh, no. Just right. Your age fits you. Yes, sir, you look a little older without your clothes on...I mean, without a dress. You look older...I mean, younger. You look just...
Mary Sir, my train, please.
A pox upon me for a clumsy lout. [throws the belt across her arm] Your...your caboose, my lady.
Mary You may kiss my hand.
Ummmm [holding her hand, George moves in closer] Hey — hey, Mary.
Mary What'd you wish, George?
Well, not just one wish. A whole hatful, Mary. I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here and go to college and see what they know... And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long...
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary I'll take it. Then what?
Well, then you could swallow it, and it'd all dissolve, see? And the moonbeams'd shoot out of your fingers and your toes, and the ends of your hair... Am I talking too much?
Old Man
Yes! Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?
How's that?
Old Man
Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?
Want me to kiss her, huh?
Old Man
Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!
Mary... [picks up Mary's robe, which is lying on the ground] Okay, I give up. Where are you?
Mary Over here in the hydrangea bushes.
Here you are. Catch. [He is about to throw her the robe, but reconsiders] Wait a minute. What am I doing? This is a very interesting situation.
Mary Please give me my robe.
Hmmm...A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day.
Mary I'd like to have my robe.
Not in Bedford Falls, anyway.
Mary [thrashing around in the bushes]
Ouch!
Gesundheit. This requires a little thought here.
Mary George Bailey! Give me my robe!
I've heard about things like this, but I've never...
Mary Shame on you. I'm going to tell your mother on you.
Oh, my mother's way up the corner there.
Mary I'll call the police!
They're way downtown. They'd be on my side, too.
Mary Then I'm going to scream!
Maybe I could sell tickets. No, no... Let's see. No, the point is, in order to get this robe...I've got it! I'll make a deal with you, Mary.
Mary Have you made up your mind?
How's that?
Mary Have you made up your mind?
About what?
Mary About coming in. Your mother just phoned and said you were on your way over to pay me a visit.
My mother just called you? Well, how did she know?
Mary Didn't you tell her?
I didn't tell anybody. I just went for a walk and happened to be passing by... What do you... went for a walk, that's all.
Mary It was nice about your brother Harry, and Ruth, wasn't it?
Oh... yeah, yeah. That's all right.
Mary Don't you like her?
Well, of course I like her. She's a peach.
Mary Oh, it's just marriage in general you're not enthusiastic about, huh?
No, marriage is all right for Harry, and Marty, and Sam and you.
George
Mary Hatch, why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me?
Mary To keep from being an old maid.
George
You could have married Sam Wainwright or anybody else in town.
Mary I didn't want to marry anybody else in town. I want my baby to look like you.
George
You didn't even have a honeymoon. I promised you...Your what?
Mary My baby.
George
You mean...Mary, you on the nest?
Mary George Bailey lassoes stork.
Geaorge
Lassoes the stork! You mean you...What is it, a boy or a girl?
Mary [nodding]
Uh-huh.
Gosh, it's this old house. I don't know why we don't all have pneumonia. This drafty old barn! Might as well be living in a refrigerator. Why did we have to live here in the first place and stay around this measly, crummy old town?
Mary George, what's wrong?
Wrong? Everything's wrong! You call this a happy family? Why did we have to have all these kids?
Sam
I may have a job for you, that is, unless you're still married to that broken-down building and loan. Ha, ha, ha. It's the biggest thing since radio and I'm lettin' you in on the ground floor. [to Mary] Will you tell that guy I'm giving him the chance of a lifetime? You hear - the chance of a lifetime.
Mary He says it's the chance of a lifetime.
[the phone suddenly drops to the floor as George grabs Mary]
Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're...and you're... [suddenly starts kissing Mary] Oh Mary, Mary.
Mary George, George, George.
