A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Joan Blondell: Aunt Sissy

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• Aunt Sissy : Go on downstairs for a while, kids. Your mama's got a spanking up her sleeve and she ain't gonna feel right until somebody gets it. Might as well get it over with.

• Aunt Sissy : He sure took a shine to you, Katie.

  Katie Nolan : Go on. Who'd look at me?

  Aunt Sissy : He would!

  Katie Nolan : Funny. Sometimes you kinda forget you are a woman.

• Francie Nolan : [to a policeman]  We only borrowed them for just a minute. Honest!

  Aunt Sissy : That's right. There wasn't nobody usin' 'em. And a little fun and frolic on a Saturday never hurt nobody. Bet you know all about that, don't ya?

  Sheila's Mother : If you think you're gonna get out of it making eyes at the law, I don't know what the world's coming to!

• Francie Nolan : This says he's a hero. He saved some people in a fire.

  Aunt Sissy : Does it say where?

  Francie Nolan : The 9th Precinct, Manhattan.

  Aunt Sissy : Manhattan, huh? Couldn't make the grade in Brooklyn, I guess.

• Katie Nolan : My mind's made up, so don't try to change it with any of that soft talk of yours.

  Aunt Sissy : Why, I won't, Katie, not if you mean it. But let's keep on talking about you. Soft's one thing, but hard's another.

  Katie Nolan : All right, it ain't nice to be hard. But my kids is gonna be somebody if I gotta turn into granite rock to make 'em!

• Aunt Sissy : Easy on the whip, kid.

• Aunt Sissy : You don't wanna frown like that, snuggle pup. The fellas don't go for that at all.

• Aunt Sissy : I'm sure glad you come along, handsome. You look like you could whip a bunch of women into line.

• Aunt Sissy : I'm proud of you, chickabiddy.

• Aunt Sissy : All right, chickabiddy. All right.

• Aunt Sissy : Well, now, if that ain't a load off my chest!