Mr. Skeffington (1944)

Bette Davis: Fanny Trellis Skeffington

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• Job Skeffington : A woman is beautiful when she's loved, and only then.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Nonsense. A woman is beautiful when she has eight hours' sleep and goes to the beauty parlor every day. And bone structure has a lot to do with it too.

• MacMahon : Do you think all those years he's been sitting at home waiting for you?

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Well, he's always home when I get there.

  MacMahon : He's just got a faster car than you.

• Fanny Trellis Skeffington : A woman's beautiful only when she is loved.

• Fanny Skeffington : I find one should never look for admirers while at the same time one is falling to bits.

• Dr. Byles : I'm sorry to have to have to be so blunt with you, Mrs. Skeffington, but you're one of a vast army of silly women. Capital "S". Capital "W". You're over dressed, you're over made-up and you're most certainly over perfumed.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Dr. Byles, you are the rudest man I have ever met.

  Dr. Byles : Did you come here to consult a gentlemen or a doctor?

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : I strongly suspect that you are neither!

• George Trellis : I could wring Trippy's neck!

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : It wouldn't do any good, Georgie. When he was a little boy, we use to put him to bed regularly without any supper, and even then he'd gain weight.

• Fanny Trellis Skeffington : I wanted to keep on crying but I didn't have the strength.

• Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Why don't you show uncle George your doll house?

  Fanny Junior : Uncle George, do you want to see my doll's house?

  George Trellis : I have to!

• Job Skeffington : Fanny, may I present Miss Morris.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : How do you do, Miss Morris?

  Job Skeffington : Eleanor, this is my wife, Fanny.

  Eleanor Morris : How do you do?

  Job Skeffington : And it may be something of an anticlimax, but this is Mr. MacMahon.

• [last lines] 

  Fanny Skeffington : Manby, would you call Janie Clarkson and tell her I can't possibly see her for lunch today?

  Manby : [laughing]  Yes, Mrs. Skeffington.

• Fanny Trellis Skeffington : It's not generally known, Edward, but I'm very hard up.

  Edward Morrison : Oh... I had no idea. I was under the impression that Skeffington...

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Well, you see, all the best people make the worst investments.

  Edward Morrison : That's true.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : If I'd only had a man to advise me. You should have returned a few years earlier, Edward.

  Edward Morrison : Yes, I should have.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : I wonder if you'd forgive me, Edward. I have an engagement.

  Edward Morrison : Yes, of course.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : I'll think over your proposal.

  Edward Morrison : Oh, well, don't be too hasty, Fanny. Marriage is a very serious step.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Yes, I know.

  Edward Morrison : Don't bother seeing me to the door, Fanny.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Clinton will get you your things.

  Edward Morrison : Oh, that's all right. Thank you... Well, Fanny, I'll give you a ring one of these days. We'll have lunch together.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : That would be very nice. Good-bye, Edward.

  Edward Morrison : Good-bye... Fanny, you don't know anyone who'd like to buy a coffee plantation, do you?

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : No, but if I hear of anyone, I'll be very glad to let you know.

  Edward Morrison : Thank you, Fanny.

• Fanny Junior : Mother? May I speak to you for a moment?

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Of course, Fanny.

  [Fanny walks toward her mother] 

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Yes, Fanny?

  Fanny Junior : Mother, Johnny Mitchell and I are going to be married.

  Fanny Trellis Skeffington : Johnny Mitchell. Well! I had no idea. But, Fanny, you haven't known him very long.

  Fanny Junior : I've known him several months; as long as I've known you.