Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Bette Davis: Charlotte Hollis

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Quotes 

• Charlotte : What do you think I asked you here for? COMPANY?

• Harry Willis : You're my favorite living mystery.

  Charlotte : Have you ever solved me?

• Charlotte : Why wouldn't Miriam conspire with Jewel against me? Who was it went sneakin' off to Jewel and told her about her husband and me in the first place?

  [Drew looks shocked, casts a glance over to Miriam] 

  Charlotte : Didn't know about that, did you, Drew? That's somethin' you never told your precious boyfriend, isn't that so, Miriam?

  [This next phrase drips with syrupy sweet obsequiousness] 

  Charlotte : Isn't it, Cousin darlin'?

  Miriam : [With some ire]  Yes, I told Jewel! And I told your father, too. Why wouldn't I? After all, I wasn't much more than a child then. And all I ever got in this house was people telling me how lucky I was and your father always favoring you and holding you up as an example! Why wouldn't I tell him that his pure, darling little girl was having a dirty little affair with a married man?

  Charlotte : You're a vile, sorry little bitch!

  Miriam : How was I to know it would end in murder... with John being butchered?

• Charlotte : Get out, Luke Standish! You smirkin' Judas!

• Charlotte : They've told you I'm crazy.

  Harry Willis : Everyone say you are. Are you?

  Charlotte : I used to be positive I wasn't. But just lately... at night... it - it seems as if... I really don't know anymore.

  Harry Willis : [Chuckles]  If it comes to that, how does anyone know?