The Little Foxes (1941)

Teresa Wright: Alexandra Giddens

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• Regina Giddens : [final lines]  Would you like to talk to me, Alexandra? Would you... like to sleep in my room tonight?

  Alexandra Giddens : Why, Mama? Are you afraid?

• David Hewitt : Do you like me?

  Alexandra Giddens : Not today.

  David Hewitt : Why, I'll come back tomorrow.

• Regina Giddens : Alexandra, I've come to the end of my rope. Somewhere there's got to be what I want, too. Life goes too fast. You can go where you want, do what you want, think what you want. I'd like to keep you with me but I won't make you stay. No, I won't make you stay.

  Alexandra Giddens : [thoughtful]  You couldn't, Mama. Because I don't want to stay with you. Because I'm beginning to understand about things. Addie said there were people who ate the earth and those that stood around and watched them do it. And just then Uncle Ben said the same thing. Really the same thing. Tell him from me, Mama, I'm not going to watch you do it.

• David Hewitt : You know, that's the first time I ever heard your mother tell you to do something, and you didn't hop to do it.

  Alexandra Giddens : That's a funny thing to say

  David Hewitt : You know, you take one step. And then you take another. After a while you'll find out you're walking all by yourself.

• Alexandra Giddens : [Referring to David, appearing in his nightclothes]  Ooh... Just getting up at 11 o'clock in the morning.

  Mrs. Lucy Hewitt : Mornin', Zan. He's not just getting up, he's just going to bed. He's been writing all night.

  Alexandra Giddens : Writin' things to put in the newspaper?

  Mrs. Lucy Hewitt : No... He said he's writing things they WON'T put in the newspaper.

• [first lines] 

  Alexandra Giddens : [while riding into town]  Good mornin' Harold.

  Harold : [looking up from shining the sign that reads 'The Planters Trust Company / Horace Giddens / President']  Mornin' miss Ann. What does your papa write to from Baltimore?

  Alexandra Giddens : He writes that he feels better Harold.

  Harold : Dat's good. Write him my greetins and tell him don't worry 'bout da brass - I'm keepin' his name fine and clean.

  Alexandra Giddens : Thanks, I will.

  Harold : Mm-mmm, those crabs'll make fine eatins Addie.

  Addie : They bettah, we got high-toe company for dinner tonight.

  Harold : Yum, bye miss Ann.

  Alexandra Giddens : [as they ride off]  Bye Harold!