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Piper Laurie

From amctv.com:

The Milkman (1950)

“Donald O’Connor plays Roger, an agitated war veteran with an unusual speech impediment caused by a war injury: he quacks like a duck when he gets upset. His father refuses to give him a job at the family dairy because he wants him to rest, so he goes to work for a competing milk farm where eccentric milkman Breezy (Jimmy Durante) works. Roger falls in love with the boss’s daughter [Piper Laurie] and proves himself to be a comically incompetent milkman, and Breezy must cover up his mistakes.”

Summa Theologica
How can you tell there’s an Irishman present at a cockfight?
     He enters a duck.
How can you tell a Pole is present?
     He bets on the duck.
How can you tell an Italian is present?
     The duck wins.

From amctv.com:

St. Patrick’s Day (1999)

“In this warm family saga, Mary Pat Donnelly McDonough (Piper Laurie), the widowed matriarch of a big Irish-American clan, shocks her family when she announces she has pledged to give up alcohol and won’t be serving any at her traditional house party. What follows is a multi-generational story with many surprising revelations….”

See also The Diamond Project.