Jezebel (1938)
Fay Bainter: Aunt Belle Massey
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Quotes
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Dr. Livingstone : You might be interested in a bit of news I got today: Preston Dillard's coming back. Arrives Friday on the packet.
Aunt Belle : What brings him?
Dr. Livingstone : This yellow fever business. We two stand together on what ought to be done about it. Now it's busted loose, he's coming back.
Aunt Belle : It's high time. I suspect I know Julie like nobody ever will. Every crook and cranny of her.
Dr. Livingstone : You ought to, Miss Belle. She's more like you than you ever were.
Aunt Belle : Maybe I love her most when she's her meanest, because I know that's when she's loving most.
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Aunt Belle : Pres has always loved you in white. If he isn't simply bowled over by it, I won't know what to think.
Julie : [speaking to an assistant who carries off a red dress] Wait a minute. Bring that over here. Saucy, isn't it?
Aunt Belle : And vulgar!
Julie : Yes, isn't it? Come on, get me out of this.
Aunt Belle : Julie, what are you doing?
Julie : If it fits me, I'm gonna wear it to the Olympus Ball.
Aunt Belle : A red dress to the Olympus Ball? Why, you're out of your senses.
Julie : ...Mary Vickers couldn't possibly do it justice.
Aunt Belle : Child, you're out of your mind. You know you can't wear red to the Olympus Ball.
Julie : Can't I? I'm going to. This is 1852, dumpling, 1852! Not the Dark Ages. Girls don't have to simper around in white just because they're not married.
Aunt Belle : In New Orleans, they do. Julie, you'd insult every woman on the floor.
Mme. Poulard : Mademoiselle, your aunt, she's right. Look how beautiful this dress is.
Julie : Will you kindly get me out of this?
Aunt Belle : Julie, you can't be serious.
Julie : Never more serious in my life.
Aunt Belle : But Julie, think of Pres.
Julie : That's just exactly what I am thinking of.
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[after the duel between Buck Cantrell and Ted Dillard ends tragically]
Julie Marsden : Well say it. What are you thinkin'?
Aunt Belle : I'm thinkin' of a woman called Jezebel who did evil in the sight of God.
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Aunt Belle : And expecting a man to go to a dressmaker's with you! I declare, I hope Pres doesn't come!
Julie : He will.
Aunt Belle : But, Julie!
Julie : Now, dumpling, don't you fret about Pres. I've been training him for years!
Aunt Belle : Like with that man-killing horse you bought!
Julie : Pres was outrageous! He had no right to tell me what I could ride and what I couldn't!
Aunt Belle : The horse showed you what you couldn't! You broke your collar bone and your engagement!
Julie : And they both mended, so I was right after all.
[smiles at Aunt Belle triumphantly]
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Aunt Belle : Julie, child, I'm so sorry.
Julie : For heaven's sakes, don't be gentle with me now. Do you think I wanna be wept over? I've gotta think, to plan, to fight.
Aunt Belle : But you can't fight marriage.
Julie : Marriage, is it? To that washed-out little Yankee? Pres is mine. He's always been mine. And if I can't have him...