Susan and God (1940)

Joan Crawford: Susan Trexel

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• Susan Trexel : If you're not going to be pretty, the least we can do is make you interesting.

• Susan Trexel : I'll tell him I don't approve of it in the daytime. All night's long enough for anything on earth.

• Susan Trexel : Where did you get that hideous thing you're wearing?

  Blossom Trexel : They got it for me.

  Susan Trexel : They?

  Blossom Trexel : The school did.

  Susan Trexel : Oh, really, Barry. After all the money we pay that school to then neglect her appearance like this. You look all wool and a yard wide.

  Blossom Trexel : Mother, you're funny! And you look so divine.

  Susan Trexel : Well, why not? I work like a trojan at it.

• Susan Trexel : If you want to know anything about this glamour business, just come to your mother.

• Susan Trexel : Oh, I've forgotten. Take that away. That's out.

  Michael O'Hara : Don't tell me you're on the wagon, Susan.

  Susan Trexel : No, not at all. It's something much more spiritual than a wagon.

• Susan Trexel : You realize what you're doing? What you're promising?

  Barrie Trexel : I'm promising to give you up for ever, if I slip.

  Susan Trexel : Even if it's only...

  Barrie Trexel : Even if I only last a day, or an hour. You win. I lose.

• Susan Trexel : [Last lines]  Barrie, wait. Please let me try again. I want to be so much more to you than I've ever been before. I know now, dearest. If only I'd done myself what I was asking everybody else to do. God couldn't help me, not one little bit, because I wouldn't dig and dig to get the rottenness out of me. Barrie... Hold me. Oh, dear God, don't let me fall down again.

• Michael O'Hara : Next!

  Susan Trexel : Mike!

  Michael O'Hara : Right in the mouth and nothing wiped off.

  [kiss] 

• Charlotte : Susan, if there's one thing I thought you'd never be guilty of is a movement.

  Susan Trexel : I know! I know! That's what's so marvelous about it.

• Susan Trexel : The most marvelous thing about this is, you can keep right on being whatever you are: an Episcopalian, Ethiopian, Colored. Anything! It's just love, love, love! For other people - not for yourself.

• Susan Trexel : You poor, miserable unhappy things. Civilization's a failure! It's a poor, sick, sick, unhappy world.

  Irene : Yes, dear.

  Susan Trexel : Oh, what's the use of all this marvelous, mechanical invention if it doesn't make the human race happy?

  Irene : Yes.

  Susan Trexel : Everybody batting around, trying to find something to fill up this awful emptiness. It's the only thing in the world to stop war. Oh, Irene, I brought you the most ravishing panties!

• Charlotte : Susan, you've got an awful nerve butting into that.

  Susan Trexel : Nerve? Oh, it's divine guidance, darling. That's what it takes to help people, especially your friends.

  Charlotte : It sometimes takes divine guidance to keep your mouth shut, too.

• Susan Trexel : Why shouldn't you and I talk about God and goodness, as well as, clothes or food or anything else?

• Susan Trexel : Ask God to help you. He knows what your temptation was. Telling us is only to break down your pride, make you humble and bring you nearer to him. No matter what we are, or what we do, if we're sorry, really, really and honestly want his help, we can be made over.

• Barrie Trexel : Where are the things that you thought were me and the things I thought were you? Where have they gone? Can't we get 'em back?

  Susan Trexel : Things don't come back, Barrie. Nobody stands still. We go up or we go down.

  Barrie Trexel : You're the up and I'm the down.

• Susan Trexel : This is very sudden. Why are you so interested in Blossom out of the blue?

• Susan Trexel : Darling, while we're going through it, we're friends - good, good friends - and nothing more.

• Susan Trexel : Divine help comes to us sometimes in the most roundabout way.

• Blossom Trexel : Mother, you're funny. And you look so divine.

  Susan Trexel : Well, why not? I work like a Trojan at it.

• Susan Trexel : Well, if we're going to have this happy Summer together, the sooner we get at it, the better.

• Barrie Trexel : There's not going to be that smash that you predicted. And those little birdies that you spoke about so feelingly, are gonna go right on singing their song, while I wet my whistle on cambric tea.

  Susan Trexel : Oh, Barrie, you know very well that I want you to stop your drinking.

  Barrie Trexel : I know very well that you've been counting on old John Barleycorn to get you out of your bargain. But, he's not going to do it!

• Susan Trexel : We don't even speak the same language anymore. I - I've changed.

  Barrie Trexel : Yes, by heaven, you have - from being the adorable little scatterbrain I married, you've turned into a very bad sport.

• Susan Trexel : It's all so gay and so merry and so full of fun!

• Susan Trexel : You know, you have to make the best of what you've got. If you're not going to be pretty, then, the least we can do, is make you interesting. It really gets a woman further in the long run.

• Susan Trexel : Don't tell your beauty secrets, darling. Be mysterious!

• Barrie Trexel : If you want a real beauty in - this lipstick is known as: Fireman's Underwear Red. Guaranteed not to come off, even on a fireman.

  Susan Trexel : You're so smart. How do you know so much?

  Barrie Trexel : Yeah, that's right. How would I know?

• Susan Trexel : Life has come straight back at me. All the things I've been running away from, are the only things I ever really wanted.