The Nanny (1965)
William Dix: Joey Fane
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Quotes
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Bobbie Medman : Who's that?
Joey Fane : Nanny.
Bobbie Medman : Nanny? What are you, some sort of baby?
Joey Fane : She takes care of my mom, she used to take care of me and my sister Susie, until Susie was killed.
Bobbie Medman : Killed?
Joey Fane : They blamed me and they sent me away to that place.
Bobbie Medman : Prison?
Joey Fane : Sort of.
Bobbie Medman : And did you kill her?
Joey Fane : Of course not.
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Bobbie Medman : You said she tried to kill you.
Joey Fane : That's right, just like she killed Susie.
Bobbie Medman : She killed your sister?
Joey Fane : Sort of... yes she did.
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Bobbie Medman : You poisoned your mum.
Joey Fane : No I didn't.
Bobbie Medman : The bottle was under your pillow.
Joey Fane : She
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Joey Fane : put it there.
Bobbie Medman : Swear?
Joey Fane : Cross my heart and hope to die.
Bobbie Medman : You probably will, they'll hang you.
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Joey Fane : Is Aunt Pen ill?
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : Yes, she had rheumatic fever as a baby. Left her with a weak heart.
Joey Fane : You mean if she got scared or something, she could just fall down dead?
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : Yes.
Joey Fane : Has *she* got a weak heart?
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : Who? If you mean Nanny, say so, is that who you mean?
Joey Fane : Yes.
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : No, she's as healthy as a horse.
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[repeated line]
Joey Fane : She tried to kill me.
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Joey Fane : I don't want to be moved out of this room.
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : I'll have to talk to your father about that.
Joey Fane : Don't tell him, please...
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : I must.
Joey Fane : If you tell him, I'll do something!
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : [startled] What will you do?
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Joey Fane : What's that?
Bobbie Medman : It's an X-ray machine, don't touch it, it's dangerous.
Joey Fane : What's so dangerous about it?
Bobbie Medman : I don't know, but Daddy says if you get overexposed you can die.
Joey Fane : I'd like to overexpose her.
Bobbie Medman : That would be great, bring her up here, put her on the couch...
Joey Fane : Tie her on the couch!
Bobbie Medman : And overexpose her would serve her right.
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Joey Fane : I can make a hangman's knot.
Virginia 'Virgie' Fane : That's enough, Joey.
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Dr. Medman, Fane's Upstairs Neighbor : I've just inspected your mother.
Joey Fane : Will she die?
Dr. Medman, Fane's Upstairs Neighbor : No, but she's eaten something and we've got to pump it out of her tummy, what was it Joey? What was it, Joey?
Joey Fane : I don't know, ask her
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Joey Fane : , she's the one who cooked the supper.
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Joey Fane : She's balmy.
Bobbie Medman : Most grownups are.
Joey Fane : No, *really* balmy, know what she did when she found Susy?
The nanny : [flashback, finding Susy in the tub] There you are, I've been looking all over for you.
Joey Fane : She bathed her, she had all her clothes on, she was DEAD, and she bathed her, and she talked to her while she was doing it, as if it were all normal.
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Bobbie Medman : You're making it up.
Joey Fane : No I'm not!
Bobbie Medman : She would've killed you?
Joey Fane : Yes, only I wouldn't let her. I wouldn't eat incase she poisoned me, I wouldn't sleep incase she came in and smothered me. I wouldn't do anything.
Bobbie Medman : You told them, didn't you?
Joey Fane : Of course I told them, she told them too, she said that Susy and I were playing boats in the bath, and I pushed hers in, ran away and hid.
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Joey Fane : I'm *not* staying with her.
Dr. Medman, Fane's Upstairs Neighbor : Now see here, Joey.
Joey Fane : I won't! I won't stay here with her, and if you try to make me stay here with her, alone, I'll run away.
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Bobbie Medman : You look like Ben Casey.
Joey Fane : Sit down on the couch madam, I wish to examine you.
Bobbie Medman : Oh Doctor, do you think I ought?
Joey Fane : Take your clothes off.
Bobbie Medman : Really!
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Joey Fane : I'm cold.
Bobbie Medman : I'll get you something to wear.
Joey Fane : I'm not going to wear any girl's clothes!
Bobbie Medman : I'll get you some of my father's.
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Joey Fane : [to Virgie] I hate you.