Raintree County (1957)
Elizabeth Taylor: Susanna Drake Shawnessy
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Quotes
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Susanna Drake : That 4th of July race... what happens when you win?
John Wickliff Shawnessy : Well, according to a friend of mine, if I win, a beautiful girl will place a garland of oak leaves on my sun-colored locks.
Susanna Drake : I'd like to be that girl.
John Wickliff Shawnessy : Maybe it can be arranged?
Susanna Drake : Oh, it can be arranged, all right. *I'll* arrange it.
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John Wickliff Shawnessy : [On the riverboat with Susanna, visiting the South for the first time] You were right, Mrs. Shawnessy, I like your river. I really do. It even smells good.
Susanna Drake : I knew that you'd understand it. Which is more than most Yankees do. Now, that's something I don't understand. 'Cause all you have to do is go South once and you LOVE it!
John Wickliff Shawnessy : Well, to us Yankees, the South is not too easy to understand... You ever read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Susanna Drake : [Shocked] "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Phoo... I haven't married an abolitionist, have I?
John Wickliff Shawnessy : That is the skeleton in my closet.
Susanna Drake : Now, you mustn't joke about it.
Susanna Drake : [Arranging a vast collection of dolls on her bed] Anyway, there's worse things than being an abolitionist.
John Wickliff Shawnessy : Like what?
Susanna Drake : Like having Negro blood in you. Isn't it funny? Just one little teeny drop and a person's all Negro. A person can't always tell, either.
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Susanna Drake : Cousin Sam, John doesn't like slavery.
Cousin Sam : Does John like the "wage slavery" of the North?
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Susanna Drake : To think: all this happened to your father 'cause he climbed the stair one day to have his picture taken. And I was there.
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Susanna Drake : Johnny, I had to come back. I'm going to have a baby.
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Susanna Drake : John, don't go
[Susanna is upset, and doesn't want him to leave]
John Wickliff Shawnessy : Where would I go
[assuring her that he'd never leave her]
