Roxie Hart (1942)

Sara Allgood: Mrs. Morton

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• Velma Wall : Do you seriously think Billy Flynn is going to waste his time on every two-bit scuffle that gets into the papers?

  Roxie Hart : Two-bit scuffle? 8 pictures and 9 columns in 2 days. I guess that ain't that the bee's knees.

  Velma Wall : My dear, dear. Do you realize that during my first week here I have a total of 15 pictures, 27 1/2 columns, and an editorial denouncing me?

  Roxie Hart : Please, you're so awful it's all I can do to keep my mind on you.

  Mrs. Morton : Children!

  Velma Wall : To hear you talk you'd think you are the queen of the jail. Well, permit me to remind you, Miss Sloppy, your whole case is a very low-class affair, whereas mine, friend, was in the social register.

  Roxie Hart : On a pass?

  Velma Wall : In my opinion, Mrs. Hart, you're a very ordinary bum and you might as well face it.

  Roxie Hart : Bum? I'll bum you.

  [They engage in a huge catfight] 

  Mrs. Morton : Children, you girls have got to stop this squabbling.

  [She stops the slugfest, grabs both Roxie and Velma, knocks their heads together and they both collapse out cold, then Mama Morton back to her newspaper] 

  Mrs. Morton : Let's see, where was I?