The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Ermadean Walters: Marie Soubirous
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Quotes
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Justin Soubirous : [rushing in from outside and boisterously calling out as he immediately plops down at the table to eat] Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - the one that eats the fastest gets the most!
Louise Soubirous : Justin! Where did you learn that?
Marie Soubirous : You'll go to Hell for saying such a thing!
Justin Soubirous : All I said: 'the one that eats the fastest gets the most.' And it's true.
Bernadette : Now you've said it again.
Louise Soubirous : I've seen pigs with better manners and cleaner faces. Get up from that table and go wash yourselves, both of you!
François Soubirous : Oh, a Mass meeting here, hmm?
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Marie Soubirous : [upon Bernadette Soubirous having just seen the Lady at the Massabielle Grotto in Lourdes, France for the first time] What were you doing over there, kneeling in the rocks?
Bernadette : Didn't you see anyone?
Marie Soubirous : Who?
Jeanne Abadie : Was somebody with you, in that cave?...
[coyly]
Jeanne Abadie : Oh, somebody was; and you were praying for forgiveness.
Bernadette : [slightly aghast] Jeanne!
Marie Soubirous : Come on, tell us who it was.
Bernadette : Well, if I tell you, you must swear not to give me away. If mama should hear of it she might take a stick to me.
Marie Soubirous : [forms a cross with her fingers] I swear.
Jeanne Abadie : I give you my word but I won't swear. Swearing like that's a mortal sin, and you don't want me to sin like that just before my first communion do you?... Aw, come on, tell us.
Bernadette : Well, I saw a lady, and she was all in white; and she wore a blue girdle and had a golden rose on each foot. I've never seen anything in my life so beautiful.
Jeanne Abadie : [skeptically] Ah, piff. What would a beautiful lady be doing in a filthy place like that?
Bernadette : I don't know. But she was there, truly she was.
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Marie Soubirous : [upon arriving back home after out gathering firewood] Bernadette's all excited because she says she saw a lady at Massabielle - all dressed in white, with golden roses on her feet.
Louise Soubirous : What on Earth are you talking about?
Marie Soubirous : That's what she told us.
Louise Soubirous : [dismissively] Golden roses on her feet.
Marie Soubirous : She said this lady was standing on a rock and smiled at her. She had a rosary of pearls, and a golden crucifix and a...
Bernadette : Marie! You told on me, and you said you wouldn't.
Marie Soubirous : Maman asked me.
Louise Soubirous : What's this foolishness Marie tells me?
Bernadette : It's true maman. In the cave of Massabielle I saw a most beautiful lady.
Louise Soubirous : A lady? What lady?
Bernadette : I don't know. Suddenly she was there, and then suddenly she disappeared.
Louise Soubirous : Ah, nonsense.
Bernadette : Oh no maman, she was there. Her face was so beautiful, just to look at her made me feel...
Louise Soubirous : Soubirous, you hear what she says?
François Soubirous : [also dismissively and slightly angry] I heard, and I know why she says it too: she's showing off - makes up a story to feel important. It always starts the same way with fairytales... golden roses on her feet, indeed.
Bernadette : No papa, I really and truly saw the lady; truly I did.