Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

Joan Crawford: Agatha Reed

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Quotes 

• Agatha Reed : We were a nice snapshot but never a family portrait.

• Agatha Reed : You mustn't mind Woody, her mind's always on the tip of her tongue.

• Agatha Reed : And I had an opportunity to see what happened when freedom was destroyed. The first step was always the same. They began by putting a blanket over education. And by making it a crime for people to think. That's what the film is about. Actual newsreel shots of some of the dreadful things that have happened in our time. How they burned the books and sent the scholars into slave labor camps. How they hang the teachers by their feet in the public squares because they dared to teach the truth. Do you think I want to see that happen in this country?

• Matt Cole : This overwhelming desire to return to the past... girlhood memories, old pictures, old sofas, old sweethearts. Old hat!

  Agatha Reed : You've been on war fronts so long that a decent atmosphere is bound to seem a little incongruous.

• Miss 'Woody' Woods : [Seeing Agatha searching the desk drawer]  May I ask what you're doing?

  Agatha Reed : There's a secret compartment in this desk; I used to keep brownies in it to hide them from Ellie.

  Miss 'Woody' Woods : Who's Ellie?

  Agatha Reed : My roommate. You share your clothes, your perfume, and even your themes with your roommate , but never your...

  [Pulling out a tin, and opening it] 

  Agatha Reed : brownies!

  Miss 'Woody' Woods : Zooks! they must be stale!

  Agatha Reed : [chewing]  Fresh this week. go on, have one.

  Miss 'Woody' Woods : No thanks. They stick to my teeth.