Virginia City (1940)

Miriam Hopkins: Julia Hayne

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• Vance Irby : Remember, when we meet, we've never seen each other before. Then the Federals can't suspect.

  Julia Hayne : Oh, I'm an expert at that now. Treating friends like strangers and enemies like friends.

• Julia Hayne : Do you remember the last Christmas I spent here before the war? Frost was glistening in all the fields, holly wreaths were in all those windows, mistletoe in the hall. And Father standing in the doorway with the light behind him, so straight and proud and handsome. And now - wet leaves cover the ground at Shiloh, don't they, Vance?

  Vance Irby : Julia, why do you torture yourself with memories?

  Julia Hayne : What have I got left? The war's taken everything.

  Vance Irby : Not me, Julie.

• Vance Irby : Virginia City seems to be quite a Union stronghold, ma'am.

  Julia Hayne : Yes, it's red, white and blue all over.

  Kerry Bradford : All over?

  Julia Hayne : Of course there are a few copperheads here, but they're harmless.

• Julia Hayne : I haven't said thank you. If you hadn't been here, Mr. Bradford...

  Kerry Bradford : But I had to be here. Don't you believe in predestination? You had to be here too, so did Murrell. There's probably a future reason for it.

• Julia Hayne : Any friend of Mr. Bradford's is a friend of mine. I'm glad you're joining us. You know how it is: more drinks, more percentage.

  Kerry Bradford : Yeah. To the belle of the Sazerac!

• Sazerac Saloon Bartender : Ain't that your music, Miss Julie?

  Julia Hayne : [singing]  As they march through the town, With their banners so gay, Well, I ran to the window, To hear the band play, I peaked through the blinds, Very cautiously then, Lest the neighbors should say, I was looking at the men...

• Kerry Bradford : I came back to ask you if you'd forgive me for...

  Julia Hayne : For - being disappointed in me? Well, I suppose you couldn't help it.

  Kerry Bradford : No, it wasn't that. But it was such a surprise seeing you up there. If things had been the other way around, you'd...

  Julia Hayne : I couldn't imagine you out there dancing the cancan.

  Kerry Bradford : No. That's a funny thought. I'd probably get mixed up in my skirts.

• Julia Hayne : No matter how much a man's in love he really wonders whether the woman's quite good enough for him or not. But when a woman's in love, well, she's just in love and that's the end of it.

• Julia Hayne : I was afraid you wouldn't see me, because I'm a Virginian.

  Abraham Lincoln : Why, I've got a lot of friends down south, Miss Hayne, and more relatives in Virginia than a Blue Ridge rabbit.