Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Una Merkel: Ann Rutledge

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Quotes 

• Abraham Lincoln : You know, Ann, I... I've always done a lot of dreaming. And lately it seems when I dream, your face gets mixed up in it.

  Ann Rutledge : Does it really, Abe? Tell me about them, Lincoln.

  Abraham Lincoln : Well, I... I feel as though I'm going to be seeing your face 'til the day I die. Course, I know that that'll be pretty hard on you to have to look at my face that long.

  Ann Rutledge : Everybody to their own opinion.

  Abraham Lincoln : Hmm?

  Ann Rutledge : Well, I... I think it's the dearest, kindest, most beautiful face in the whole world.

  Abraham Lincoln : Oh, Ann, Ann. Course, I know that's just flattery, but I love it.

• [death scene] 

  Ann Rutledge : I know the truth, dear. It's goodbye.

  Abraham Lincoln : No, no, Ann, dear. You're not going to leave me. I won't let you!

  Ann Rutledge : We must be brave, dear...

  [looking up to the heavens] 

  Ann Rutledge : Don't take me away. Don't take me away! It's so dark and lonesome!

  Abraham Lincoln : Ann, you mustn't let go.

  Ann Rutledge : If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.

  [a chorus of "Sweet By and By" swells up in the background] 

  Ann Rutledge : We will meet there, dear.

• Abraham Lincoln : You taught me how to love.

  Ann Rutledge : Have I taught you to like it?

  [both laugh] 

• Abraham Lincoln : You know, I feel like little Jimmy Watkins. He got a hunk of gingerbread the other day and said, 'I guess there's nobody loves gingerbread like I does and gets so little of it.'

  Ann Rutledge : Oh, Abe.

  Abraham Lincoln : Ann, will you... will you marry me? I mean, of course, when I get out of debt and can support you?

  Ann Rutledge : Well, you know, Abe, I've intended to for a long while. That is, of course, if you ask me.

  Abraham Lincoln : You... you mean...?

  Ann Rutledge : Yes, Abe... you've got your gingerbread.