Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Olivia de Havilland: Miriam Deering

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Quotes 

• 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?

• Miriam : You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?

  Velma Cruther : I just come for my things.

  Miriam : Is my cousin one of your things?

• Miriam : [Arriving at Charlotte's house]  They say places you knew as a child always seem smaller than your memory of them. It's not true!

• Miriam : You idiot. You wretched idiot! He's dead. And you killed him!

• Miriam : What is it that you don't believe, Drew? That I'm here, or that I look the way I do?

• Miriam : My dress. Somebody slashed my dress!

• Miriam : [slaps Charlotte a few times]  Damn you! Now, will you shut your mouth?