Judge Priest (1934)

Brenda Fowler: Mrs. Caroline Priest

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• Judge Priest : You going to, uh, you gonna' stay for supper, ain't ya', Carrie?

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : Certainly I thank you, William. The Daughters of the Confederacy are having a chicken supper at Kate Maydews, and I'm late already.

  Judge Priest : Looks like you Daughters get more ferocious every year towards Yankees and, uh, fried chicken.

  Judge Priest : [Carrie laughs; he points to her breast badge]  You got your badge on there.

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : Yes.

  Judge Priest : It's mighty pretty.

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : [leaves]  Goodnight, William.

  Judge Priest : Sometimes I, uh, I think you women got more badges and medals out of the war than the soldiers did. Goodnight, Carrie.

• Mrs. Caroline Priest : William, I'm not a woman to beat about the bush. This business of Rome and that girl next door has got to stop!

  Judge Priest : What have you got against Ellie May? She's an awful sweet girl, seems to me. She's got gumption, and teaches school, and supports herself...

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : I don't want to be unkind. She may be a very nice girl and all that, but after all, Rome is one of the Kentucky Priests, and the name of Priest *means* something in Kentucky.

  Judge Priest : Well, I've, I've never heard that it meant intolerance.

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : It means good stock. And family pride. You know the kind of stock she comes from.

  Judge Priest : Yep. Her, uh, her ma come to this town penniless, and died - givin' birth to Ellie May. I remember the night. She was a frail little woman. Uh, wasn't any bigger than Ellie May is now, and, just as pretty.

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : But *who* was her father?

  Judge Priest : Well, uh, nobody don't, uh, rightfully know.

  Mrs. Caroline Priest : Well, family may not mean anything to you, but it means a whole lot to me. I'm not going to have my grandchildren come into the world under a cloud.