Christmas Eve (1947)

Ann Harding: Aunt Matilda

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Quotes 

• Aunt Matilda Reed : [Entering the room]  I always ring that gong, gentlemen, to warn people to stop talking about me behind my back.

• Aunt Matilda Reed : Have you any idea how many toy trains are wrecked by fathers on Christmas Day, and how difficult it is to work a railroad system if one is over 10 years old?

• Aunt Matilda Reed : Do you think Judge Alston's afraid if I go to his court, I'll find out how crazy everybody else is?

• Aunt Matilda Reed : I hope the ghost of my sainted father will forgive me for having newspaper people in his house.

• Aunt Matilda Reed : I will have my sons here on Christmas Eve.

• [repeated line] 

  Aunt Matilda Reed : Pour yourself a drink and make your report.

• [last lines] 

  Aunt Matilda Reed : A Merry Christmas to all.