Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Shirley Temple: Priscilla Williams
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Quotes
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Priscilla Williams : [on her new nickname] Wee Willie Winkie. It does sound like a soldier, doesn't it?
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Aye.
Priscilla Williams : Then I'd be Private Winkie!
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Private Winkie it is. A full-fledged soldier of the Queen!
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Priscilla Williams : [about the Colonel] I think he's gonna like you, Mommy. Even if he doesn't like me.
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Sgt. Donald MacDuff : You made a very good beginning.
Priscilla Williams : Yes, but who ever head of a solider named Priscilla?
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Aye, that's the point. You couldn't take Private Pricilla very seriously, could you? We'll have to find a new name for you.
[pauses]
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : I got it! I got it! Wee Willie Winkie.
Priscilla Williams : Wee Willie Winkie?
[They both laugh]
Priscilla Williams : Was he a friend of yours?
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Nah, he was a lad in an old scotch rhyme. Wee Willie Winkie ran through the town... Wee Willie Winkie ran through the town... he ran through the... well,he was a lad who was always getting himself into difficulties.
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Priscilla Williams : Coppy, I'm kinda worried.
Coppy - Lieut. Brandes : You are? About what?
Priscilla Williams : I've gotta be a solider and I don't know where to start.
Coppy - Lieut. Brandes : Who put that idea into your head?
Priscilla Williams : The Colonel. You see, the colonel never had any little girls around. All he understands in soliders. So I've decided to be one. Then he'll like me. How do I start, Coppy?
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Priscilla Williams : But he was so glad to get back his necklace, Sergeant.
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Well, it will take more than a necklace to get him out of that jail.
Priscilla Williams : But why are they gonna put him in jail?
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Because he's a blackhearted thieving batan, that's why.
Priscilla Williams : But he was such a nice gentleman.
Sgt. Donald MacDuff : Gentleman? Pah! A gentleman, why he'd cut your head off as soon as he'd get ya.
