Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Ella Fitzgerald: Flora

Quotes 

• Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.

  Wart : Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.

  Fran : Come on, Judge, don't do that.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.

  Fran : Well, I will, I'll help.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...

  Flora : What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?

  Wart : Yeah but what kind of a life?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.

  Goodbye George : Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?

  Max : You know, he's right.

  Wart : Maybe you got something.

  Nellie Romano : Hey, are you all serious?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who else is there to help you, Nellie?

  Wart : Are you for it, Nellie?

  Nellie Romano : Yes, I am for it.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!

• Flora : [singing]  Dream a while, Scheme a while, We're sure to find, Happiness, and I guess, All those things you've always pined for, Gee I'd like to see you looking swell, baby...

• Flora : I need a fix. I don't want to ask you but I can't help it. I need it. I can't sing. I can't - I can't do anything without it. I get paid tomorrow. I'll pay you. I'll pay you. They want me to be a pusher. But, I can't do that. I can't do it that way.

• Flora : [singing in a bar]  So drink up all you people, Order anything you see, Have fun you happy people, The laugh's and the joke's on me...

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : [sitting at a table with Fran]  Flora sounds like the whole world's weeping.

  Fran : Yeah. She's had a fix.

• Flora : [singing]  No matter how many times it seems, That dreams are not for you, Reach for tomorrow, And make them all come true...

• Louis Ramponi : You go and help Whitey. Go on.

  Flora : I ain't gonna do it!