Caged (1950)

Hope Emerson: Evelyn Harper

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Quotes 

• Evelyn Harper : Come on you tramps - line up for Christmas.

• Evelyn Harper : Line up, you tramps. This ain't no upstairs delicatessen.

• Evelyn Harper : Home sweet home! Just like the big cage in the zoo - only you clean it up instead of the keeper. Bucket and brush is in the corner closet.

  Marie Allen : Mrs. Benton said I was going to work in the laundry.

  Evelyn Harper : I'm the boss here! Start scrubbin'!

  Marie Allen : But Mrs. Benton told me...

  Marie Allen : [she sees another inmate signaling her not to talk back]  Where do I begin, Mrs. Harper?

  Evelyn Harper : Now you're gettin' hip.

• Kitty Stark : [Evelyn Harper casually saunters in to the lock-up area; she walks up behind Kitty Stark, giving an evil chuckle]  What's so funny?

  Evelyn Harper : We've got a new fish coming in. Maybe if you're real nice you might get her for a roommate. An old friend of yours: Elvira Powell.

  Evelyn Harper : [Kitty Stark looks shocked, and slowly sits down]  It's going to be a rich haul - none of your penny-ante stuff.

  Kitty Stark : You'll still do what I pay you to do.

  Evelyn Harper : Them days are over!

  Evelyn Harper : [calls out to the other inmates nearby]  Hey, girls, take a look at your "queen bee." She's buzzin' off the throne. She never was nothin' but a dime-a-dozen booster with so little influence she couldn't even get off on self-defense for a murder rap!

  Evelyn Harper : [continues]  I got nothin' against you, it's just a matter of dollars and cents. Elvira Powell's an institution with a big bank roll stashed away, and I always wanted to meet an institution.

  [Harper lets out a devilish laugh and walks away] 

  Kitty Stark : Someday I'm gonna' get my hands in her hair... and I'm gonna' pull it out by the roots.

• Evelyn Harper : Let's you and me get acquainted honey. You may be a number to others but not to me. Sit down in this chair, it's kinda roomy.