Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Page #7

What's Uncle Brick doing on the floor?

I tried to kill your Aunt Maggie...

...but I failed...

...and I fell. Little girl,

would you hand me my crutch, please?

What were you jumping high hurdles for?

Because I used to, and people like to do

what they used to do...

...after they've stopped being able to do it.

That's right. And that's your answer.

Now go away.

Stop that, you little no-neck monster!

You're just jealous

because you can't have babies.

You see?

Mae and Gooper gloat over us

being childless...

...even in front of their little

no-neck monsters.

I went to a doctor in Memphis.

A gynecologist.

He says there's no reason

why we can't have a child...

...whenever we want.

- Are you listening?

- Yes, Maggie, I hear you.

But how in hell do you imagine

you're going to have a child...

...by a man who cannot stand you?

That, boy of mine...

...is a problem I'll just have to work out.

Here comes that party, here we come!

Here comes that birthday party!

That's nice.

The preacher almost cried when I told him

I got a stained-glass memorial window.

Who gave you that window, Deacon?

Clyde Fletcher's widow,

a generous woman of fine character.

What someone should give our church

is a cooling system.

Yes, sir. Exactly my thought.

Let's see, they've had the typhoid shots

and the tetanus shots...

...diphtheria shots, hepatitis shots,

polio shots.

Gooper, what have all the kiddies

been shot for?

Everything but stealing chickens.

Well, Brick?

Congratulations, Big Daddy,

on your birthday.

- Bull!

- Guess what memorial Gus's family gave?

- A new house and basketball court...

- Deacon!

What's all this talk about

memorial stained-glass windows?

Figuring on somebody kicking off

around here?

How about some nice music

to start the party off with?

Turn that damn thing off!

Where's my Brick?

- Where's my precious baby?

- Sorry, turn it back on.

How does your leg feel, honey?

Your hand was made for holding

something better! Put that liquor down.

- He is putting it down, all right!

- Turn that off!

How about a birthday kiss, honey?

Hey, everybody, you know the first time

Big Daddy kissed me, I fainted.

It's a fact. Ain't that so, honey?

Do you all know how he proposed to me?

I was four months swole with Gooper...

...and Big Daddy said,

"That's my kid, ain't it?"

It was kind of funny.

I'd never had a beau...

...till I met your father.

He said, "I want that kid.

"I need him.

"He ain't going to have nobody else's name

but mine. Let's get the preacher.

"That's what marriage is for. Family."

Children were mighty important

to Big Daddy, even then.

Ida, will you stop that yammering?

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