A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Dorothy McGuire: Katie Nolan
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Quotes
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Katie Nolan : Flossie Gaddis died last night.
Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : The poor baby. It was nice that her Mama got her all them pretty dresses.
Katie Nolan : Only now the poor thing will have to lie in Potter's Field!
Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : But at least she had the dresses!
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[first lines]
Katie Nolan : This'll be the last of them now, Francie.
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Francie Nolan : Mama! Mama, they're cutting the tree!
Katie Nolan : Oh, that's too bad. It was kind of pretty there with birds sitting in it sometimes.
Francie Nolan : Papa loved that tree.
Katie Nolan : Ah, quit moonin' over it. It got in the way of the washing. A tree ain't gonna put no pennies in the bank.
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Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : Anybody seen Johnny Nolan's wife?
Katie Nolan : Johnny, you all right?
Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : And why not? Ain't I married to the most beautiful lady in all Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
Katie Nolan : Well, you're shoutin' it so loud they'll hear you over to Manhattan.
Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : Don't you get fresh with me tonight, Mrs. Nolan.
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Aunt Sissy : He sure took a shine to you, Katie.
Katie Nolan : Go on. Who'd look at me?
Aunt Sissy : He would!
Katie Nolan : Funny. Sometimes you kinda forget you are a woman.
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Katie Nolan : Beat it, now, Johnny.
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Katie Nolan : I guess you won't get home until the sun comes up.
Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush : The later, the better. The more tips, the more fine silk stockings for my wife's pretty legs.
Katie Nolan : [sarcastically] Silk stockings is just what I need!
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Katie Nolan : My mind's made up, so don't try to change it with any of that soft talk of yours.
Aunt Sissy : Why, I won't, Katie, not if you mean it. But let's keep on talking about you. Soft's one thing, but hard's another.
Katie Nolan : All right, it ain't nice to be hard. But my kids is gonna be somebody if I gotta turn into granite rock to make 'em!
