Playmates (1941)

May Robson: Grandma Kyser

Quotes 

• Penelope Pennypacker : [to John Barrymore]  Do sit down.

  Grandma Kyser : My, my! Have an accident?

  John Barrymore : [hollering as he sits down]  No, thanks. I just had one.

  Penelope Pennypacker : Oh, he must have sprained his back! I hope I have some liniments in the house!

  Grandma Kyser : Have you ever tried rubbing alcohol?

  John Barrymore : Not since prohibition.

• Kay Kyser : This is my grandmother from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Grandma, Mr. John Barrymore.

  Grandma Kyser : How do you do, Mr. Barrymore?

  John Barrymore : My dear, dear lady. I am honored to meet the glorious fountainhead from which spring this sparkling brook of wit, your grandson, came.

• Kay Kyser : I think I better stick to comedy.

  John Barrymore : The line between comedy and tragedy is thinner than a hair. When you play the Professor of the College of Musical Knowledge, that is comedy. When you play Hamlet or Macbeth, that, me dear lad, is tragedy.

  Kay Kyser : That's what I'm afraid of.

  Grandma Kyser : Oh, Kay, don't be so namby-pamby! One would think you'd never been on the stage before.

  Kay Kyser : Yes, but, Shakespeare!

  Grandma Kyser : Acting is acting!