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Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, and Lloyd Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Dorothy McGuire: Katie Nolan

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dorothy McGuire credited as playing...

Katie Nolan

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  • Katie Nolan: Flossie Gaddis died last night.
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: The poor baby. It was nice that her Mama got her all them pretty dresses.
  • Katie Nolan: Only now the poor thing will have to lie in Potter's Field!
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: But at least she had the dresses!
  • Francie Nolan: Mama! Mama, they're cutting the tree!
  • Katie Nolan: Oh, that's too bad. It was kind of pretty there with birds sitting in it sometimes.
  • Francie Nolan: Papa loved that tree.
  • Katie Nolan: Ah, quit moonin' over it. It got in the way of the washing. A tree ain't gonna put no pennies in the bank.
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: Anybody seen Johnny Nolan's wife?
  • Katie Nolan: Johnny, you all right?
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: And why not? Ain't I married to the most beautiful lady in all Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
  • Katie Nolan: Well, you're shoutin' it so loud they'll hear you over to Manhattan.
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: Don't you get fresh with me tonight, Mrs. Nolan.
  • Aunt Sissy: He sure took a shine to you, Katie.
  • Katie Nolan: Go on. Who'd look at me?
  • Aunt Sissy: He would!
  • Katie Nolan: Funny. Sometimes you kinda forget you are a woman.
  • Katie Nolan: Beat it, now, Johnny.
  • Katie Nolan: I guess you won't get home until the sun comes up.
  • Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush: The later, the better. The more tips, the more fine silk stockings for my wife's pretty legs.
  • Katie Nolan: [sarcastically] Silk stockings is just what I need!
  • [first lines]
  • Katie Nolan: This'll be the last of them now, Francie.
  • Katie Nolan: My mind's made up, so don't try to change it with any of that soft talk of yours.
  • Aunt Sissy: Why, I won't, Katie, not if you mean it. But let's keep on talking about you. Soft's one thing, but hard's another.
  • Katie Nolan: All right, it ain't nice to be hard. But my kids is gonna be somebody if I gotta turn into granite rock to make 'em!

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