The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Shirley Temple: Virgie Cary

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• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : [singing]  Oh, I wish I was in Dixie Land! Hooray, hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand, I'll live and die in Dixie Land! Away down south Dixie! Away, away!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Daddy, give all my love to General Lee!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Daddy, did something happen to Mommy?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Something beautiful, dear. That's the way you must always think of it. Mommy will never be ill again, or frightened, or discouraged. Just think of it as beautiful.

• Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : You remember how Mommy always taught you never to tell a lie?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : I never have, Daddy.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : And Mommy's proud of you for it, but if those Yankees should come in here, you've got to tell a lie.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : You want me to tell a lie?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Just this once for Daddy. And in a case like this, it really isn't a lie. If they should ask you, you must tell them that I was here but I left an hour ago and you saw me cross the river. Be brave and do this for me, dear.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Daddy, would General Lee want me to tell that lie?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Yes, dear.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : All right, then, I'll tell a whopper!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Daddy, you told a fib.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Well, this is war, honey.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Why isn't it a sin to tell a fib in war?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : I don't know why it isn't a sin to do anything we do in war.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : What's the Seventy-Second Vermont?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : That's a regiment of men I have no intention of meeting.

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : I know another dance. Would you like to see?

  Uncle Billy : Oh, yes, sir, she knows such a lot of dances!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : [singing]  Oh, I eat watermelon and I have for years. Sing Polly-Wolly-Doodle all the day! I like watermelon but it wets my ears. Sing Polly-Wolly-Doodle all the day!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Can you stay long this time, Daddy?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Not this time either, darling. I've got to be right off.

  Mrs. Cary : I'll see if Rosabelle has your lunch for you.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Are they getting a fresh horse for me?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Everybody knows just what to do. We practice it every day.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : God love you.

• Col. Morrison : You're not leaving without saying goodbye to me, are you?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Oh no, I was going to kiss you goodbye. And then tomorrow when I come, I'll do all my talking with you.

  Col. Morrison : Oh, you switch around, eh?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Well, Daddy said you tried to help us, so I made you my second daddy.

  Col. Morrison : Nothing so nice ever happened to me.

  Uncle Billy : We got's to hurry, missy.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Goodbye, Yankee.

  Col. Morrison : Goodbye, rebel darling.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Goodbye, Daddy.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : God love you, honey.

• Uncle Billy : There ain't no more ice cream, Miss Virgie.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : I'll only ask them once. I won't coax. More ice cream for you, Master Phillip?

  Phillip : Nothing for me, thank you.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Would you care for more ice cream, Master Harold?

  Harold : Yes!

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Uh, perhaps you'd rather have another great big piece of cake?

  Harold : No, just ice cream.

• Sally Ann : Miss Virgie... Mam... we all come here to wish you many happy... many happy...

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : [whispering]  Returns.

  Sally Ann : That's it! Many happy returns of the day! And we all made you a doll and here it is and, Miss Virgie, there was more I had to say but I forgot it!

• Harold : I hope you'll excuse me, Miss Virgie, if I don't bow too low, but these britches are awful tight.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : That's perfectly all right, Master Harold, just bow as far as you can.

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Uncle Billy, I don't think it was very polite to chase everybody out of my party like that.

  Uncle Billy : Their mammies have to take them home quickly. You see, honey child, they's gonna be a war.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : What's war?

  Uncle Billy : War is a lot of soldiers and battle where men kill each other with guns.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Really and truly kill each other? Why?

  Uncle Billy : Seems to me, honey child, no-one knows why. I heard a white gentleman say there's a man up north who wants to free the slaves.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : What does that mean? Free the slaves?

  Uncle Billy : I don't know what it means myself.

• James Henry : Ain't you a speck afraid, Miss Virgie?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : No, I'm not! What are you afraid of them for?

  James Henry : Oh, Miss Virgie, them Yankees is mighty powerful. They can even change the weather.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Really?

  James Henry : Whenever they come around, I don't know whether it's winter or summer. I start shivering and sweating at the same time.

• Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Southerners never cry.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : What are these, then?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Raindrops.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : On a sunshiney day?

• Col. Morrison : And how is the littlest rebel of them all?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Just fine, Mr. Yankee, thank you!

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : You're nice enough to be a Confederate!

• Yankee Guard : Where are you going, sir?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : I'm taking this child to her father just beyond our lines. Colonel Morrison sent me. Here's his pass.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Have you got a little girl, mister?

  Yankee Guard : No, I've got a boy. Where'd you come from?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Cary's plantation.

  Yankee Guard : Why aren't you using the main roads?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : We'd heard about Cary going the other way.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : How old's your little boy?

  Yankee Guard : Five.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Oh, I'm six.

  Yankee Guard : My boy's bigger than you. This looks all right, but I don't know. We have special orders to be on the watch for Captain Cary, a rebel scout.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Didn't you hear? They caught him this morning.

  Yankee Guard : They did?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Yes, Morrison and his men, at his own plantation.

  Yankee Guard : That's all right, then, go ahead.

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : My daddy and Colonel Morrison are in prison, and they're going to shoot them.

  President Abraham Lincoln : Your father is a captain in the Confederate army.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Yes, sir.

  President Abraham Lincoln : Arrested as a spy.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : My daddy isn't a spy!

  President Abraham Lincoln : Do you know what a spy is?

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : I know it's something bad, because they shoot you for it, and my daddy could never do anything bad.

  President Abraham Lincoln : I don't see how he could either, with a little one like you.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Thank you kindly, sir.

• Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Tell me what you've been doing.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Well, I sewed up a hole in my dress, and Miss Robin let me sweep the stoop.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : Why, you're becoming a regular little housewife!

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Daddy, when will they let you out?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : No, no, come on now and tell me what you've been doing.

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Well, there's a little girl that lives across the street, and she has a pony, and she let me ride on it.

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : That's grand!

  Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : And she gave me some candy, and she's a yank, and she said she didn't care whether I was a rebel or not. And I said I didn't care if she was a yank. Daddy, if she's so nice, and Colonel Morrison's so nice, and Miss Robin, why do the rest of the people have to kill each other?

  Capt. Herbert Cary, aka 'Master Cary' : I don't know, honey. We grown-ups haven't as much sense as you children.

• Virginia 'Virgie' Cary : Uncle Billy, isn't there any way we can get them out of there?

  Uncle Billy : Well, honey, that soldier man give me some money. He wrote me a letter to give to a judge up in Washington. He says there's just one way. But I don't know if we got enough money to get there.