The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Clara Blandick: Auntie Em
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Quotes
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Auntie Em : Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For 23 years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you, and now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!
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Auntie Em : Now, you just help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble!
Dorothy : Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain...
[sings]
Dorothy : Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue... and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me... where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me... Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow... why, then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow... why oh why can't I?
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Miss Gulch : If you don't hand over that dog, I'll bring a damage suit that'll take your whole farm! There's a law protecting folks against dogs that bite!
Auntie Em : How would it be if she keeps him tied up? He's really gentle... with gentle people, that is.
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Auntie Em : Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping when there's work to be done? I know three shiftless farmhands that'll be out of a job before they know it.
'Hickory' : Well, Dorothy was walking along...
Auntie Em : I saw you tinkering with that contraption, Hickory! Now you and Hunk get back to that wagon.
'Hickory' : All right, Mrs. Gale. But someday, they're going to erect a statue to me in this town, and...
Auntie Em : Well, don't start posing for it now!
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Dorothy : I'm frightened, Auntie Em! I'm frightened!
[Auntie Em's image appears in the crystal ball]
Auntie Em : Dorothy? Dorothy? Where are you? It's me, Auntie Em! We're trying to find you! Where are you?
Dorothy : I'm here in Oz, Auntie Em! I'm locked in the witch's castle, and I'm trying to get home to you, Auntie Em!
[Auntie Em's image fades out]
Dorothy : Oh, Auntie Em, don't go away! I'm frightened! Come back! Come back!
[the Wicked Witch's image appears in the crystal ball]
The Wicked Witch of the West : Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Come back! I'll give you Auntie Em, my pretty!
[cackling, to the audience, cackling again and the Wicked Witch's image fades out]
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Auntie Em : Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!
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Miss Gulch : That dog's a menace to the community. I'm taking him to the sheriff and make sure he's destroyed.
Dorothy : Destroyed? Toto? Oh, you can't! You mustn't! Auntie Em! Uncle Henry! You won't let her, will you?
Uncle Henry : [chuckles] Of course we won't. Will we, Em?
Dorothy : Please, Aunt Em, Toto didn't mean to. He didn't know he was doing anything wrong. I'm the one that ought to be punished. I let him go in her garden. You can send me to bed without supper.
Miss Gulch : [strictly pointly to Em] If you don't hand over that dog, I'll bring a damage suit that'll take your whole farm! There's a law protecting folks against dogs that bite!
Auntie Em : How would it be if she keeps him tied up? He's really gentle... with gentle people, that is.
Miss Gulch : Well, that's for the Sheriff to decide. Here's his order allowing me to take him. Unless you want to go against the law.
Uncle Henry : Uhh... yeah...
Auntie Em : Now, we can't go against the law, Dorothy. I'm afraid poor Toto will have to go.
Miss Gulch : Now you're seeing reason.
Dorothy : No...
Miss Gulch : Here's what I'm taking him in... so he can't attack me again.
Dorothy : OH, NO, NO! I won't let you take him! You go away, you... .! Oooh, I'LL BITE YOU MYSELF!
Miss Gulch : Dorothy!
Dorothy : You wicked old witch! Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, don't let 'em take Toto! Don't let her take him... please!
Miss Gulch : Here! I've got an order! Let me have...
Dorothy : STOP HER!
Auntie Em : Put him in the basket, Henry.
Miss Gulch : The idea!
Dorothy : Oh, don't, Uncle Henry. Oh, Toto! Don't...
[Dorothy starts crying she looks to Aunt Em, then to Uncle Henry then turns and starts out, and runs out of the room]
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Uncle Henry : Come on, everybody in the storm cellar!
Auntie Em : [panicked] Henry, help me, I can't find Dorothy, she's somewhere out in the storm!
Uncle Henry : Em, we can't look for her now! Come on, get in the cellar, hurry up!
Auntie Em : [screams] DOROTHYYYY!
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Auntie Em : Wake up honey. Dorothy, Dorothy dear, it's Aunt Em darling.
Dorothy : Oh, Auntie Em. It's you.
Professor Marvel : Hello there, anyone home. I just dropped by because I heard the little girl got caught in the big
[realizing Dorothy is fine]
Professor Marvel : well she seems alright now.
Uncle Henry : Yeah, she got quite a bump on the head we kind of thought there for a minute she was going to leave us.
Dorothy : But I did leave you, Uncle Henry that's just the trouble and I tried to get back for days and days.
Auntie Em : Their, their lay quiet now, you just had a bad dream.
'Hunk' : You remember me? Your old pal Hunk
'Hickory' : Or me, Hickory.
'Zeke' : You couldn't forget my face could you?
Dorothy : But it wasn't a dream, it was a place and you, and you and you and you were there.
Professor Marvel : Oh.
Dorothy : But you couldn't have been could you.
Auntie Em : But we dream lots of silly things when we.
Dorothy : No Aunt Em, this is a real truly live place. And I remember some of it wasn't very nice but most of it was beautiful but just the same all I kept saying to everybody was I want to go home and they sent me home.
[everyone is skeptical]
Dorothy : doesn't anybody believe me?
Uncle Henry : Of course we believe you Dorothy.
Dorothy : But anyway Toto, we're home. Home. And this is my room and you're all here and I'm not gonna leave here ever ever again because I love you all. Oh Auntie Em, there's no place like home.
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Dorothy : Aunt Em, just listen what Miss Gulch did to Toto.
Auntie Em : [not listening] Dorothy, please, we're trying to count.
Dorothy : But Aunt Em, she hit him.
Uncle Henry : Don't bother us, honey. This old incubators gone bad and we're likely to lose some of our chicks.
