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Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, and Barry Fitzgerald in The Catered Affair (1956)

Bette Davis: Aggie Hurley

The Catered Affair

Bette Davis credited as playing...

Aggie Hurley

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Quotes9

  • Agnes Hurley: You're going to have a big wedding whether you like it or not! And if you don't like it, you don't have to come!
  • Agnes Hurley: The only reason he married me was that my father, God rest his soul, met him one day at the union hall. They was both house painters, ya know. And he said, "Hurley, I'll give ya $300 if you'll marry my daughter." And he said he would, and he did.
  • Jane Hurley: I never heard that story, Ma.
  • Agnes Hurley: Oh, sure, sure. 'Course I'm exaggeratin' a little, but... but that's the gist of it.
  • Agnes Hurley: Mad? How could I be mad at what's been my whole life? and will be to the end?
  • Tom Hurley: Long time we've been married.
  • Agnes Hurley: Too long? Too long a time?
  • Tom Hurley: To know someone?... It's like a day, Aggie.
  • Agnes Hurley: I don't know what to say to your pa. Go make him some breakfast, maybe it'll make him more peaceful.
  • Agnes Hurley: Your pa and me was never alone together since the day after we was married.
  • Agnes Hurley: So you're awake now, are you? You're not sleepy when there're no guests to be run out of the house.
  • Agnes Hurley: Look, Tom, think of that girl leaving this house with nothing to show for a whole life with us. Just moving out like, like she was changing a place to live. We've been like nothing at all to her, just strangers living in the same house.
  • Agnes Hurley: So you're awake now, are you? You're not sleepy when there's no guests to be run out of the house.

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