Angel Baby (1961)

Joan Blondell: Mollie Hays

Quotes 

• Mollie Hays : Don't be scared. Just say what's in your heart.

  Angel Baby : [Practicing her first sermon at the podium]  Yes. I was thinking how when we pray down on our knees, it appears to us that the Lord has to be summoned from a far place... that child-like fear... maybe the Lord can't get to us from afar, stays with us and we grow old with it 'til when we're withered and our hair's whited. And we think maybe, maybe we ain't important enough to bring Him rushing to us and we hear our own little thin voice and we say, "How's it gonna get to Him" To fetch him?" Well, I tell you the Lord is everywhere. You don't have to come rushing. He don't have to strain to hear even a whisper. He's everywhere and in everything. He's got His arms held around the Earth hugging us close to Him. His love is such, it can enfold every living creature, every flower, every tree, every man and every woman!

• Mollie Hays : [Overlooks Angel Baby sleeping]  Look at the girl once more, Ben Hays. You still don't see nothing?

  Ben Hays : [Looks at Angel Baby]  Mol, she's just a Georgia country gal sleeping off the Lord's electricity.

  Mollie Hays : I seen me a vision, so help me!

  Ben Hays : Now what kind of omen did you see this time? It looked like a rat the size of a hound dog or did it look like an elephant?

  Mollie Hays : I seen me a vision from God. A angel with white wings and fire on His tongue.

  Ben Hays : Well, I declare!

  Mollie Hays : A angel with white wings a hoverin' over that girl there like a big dragonfly over a quick and hot summer's day. Go feel it. Go on, feel it! There's a hotness there like the Lord drawed a circle, a holy circle, where the angels swarmed over her. It's a sign, Ben, that's what it is. A sign the Lord chose that girl for His holy work. I knows it!

  Ben Hays : [Consoling her]  It's all right. All right. You seen His sign. You seen His sign.