Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Jeanne Cooper: Fran

Quotes 

• Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.

  Wart : Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.

  Fran : Come on, Judge, don't do that.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.

  Fran : Well, I will, I'll help.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...

  Flora : What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?

  Wart : Yeah but what kind of a life?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.

  Goodbye George : Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?

  Max : You know, he's right.

  Wart : Maybe you got something.

  Nellie Romano : Hey, are you all serious?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who else is there to help you, Nellie?

  Wart : Are you for it, Nellie?

  Nellie Romano : Yes, I am for it.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!

• Fran : You're nice George.

  Goodbye George : Fran, you're gettin' drunk.

  Fran : Nah! I just feel good. I feel like I could just *love* everybody!

• Fran : I always meant to ask you Judge, how come you, you know, you wound up here?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Oh, I think perhaps a road I choose went downhill more rapidly than I realized.

  Fran : My dear and saintly mother told me I'd end up here. She used to say, "Comb your hair, you look like a slut!" She was right.

• Baldy : Say, what do you think I am? A bellboy or somethin'?

  Fran : Baldy, you ain't been a boy in a hundred years.

  Baldy : Say, listen, sister, anytime you're ready to find out.

  Baldy : I got the time to laugh.

• Baldy : Look, there's no dames allowed in here.

  Fran : Oh, lover boy.

  [pushes him down] 

• Flora : [singing in a bar]  So drink up all you people, Order anything you see, Have fun you happy people, The laugh's and the joke's on me...

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : [sitting at a table with Fran]  Flora sounds like the whole world's weeping.

  Fran : Yeah. She's had a fix.