Man with the Gun (1955)

Jan Sterling: Nelly Bain

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Quotes 

• Nelly Bain : You're going to do Mable's song tonight. She's nursing a sore throat.

  Ann Wakefield : But I haven't got any voice and that's the worst kind!

  Nelly Bain : They aren't paying for your pear-shaped tones at the Palace, dear.

  Kitty : Nelly means, "Who listens."

• Nelly Bain : Don't try to change now, Clint, or you'll find that even feeling a little will hurt a lot.

• [last lines] 

  Clint Tollinger : Time to quit this business, Nell. There's got to be an easier way to make a living.

  Nelly Bain : We'll find it.

• Nelly Bain : You notice I don't say anything about your manners. Appearances are all I care about. You're pretty girls and the Palace is not a pretty business.

• Nelly Bain : You forget, Clint - I know that your father died because he wouldn't wear a gun. You'll die because you do.

• Nelly Bain : You're staying?

  Clint Tollinger : Mm-hmm.

  Nelly Bain : Of course - a target right to the end. Standing in front of people who won't stand in back of you.

• Nelly Bain : Hurry, Kitty!

  Mable : Lucky Kitty.

  Ann Wakefield : She's going to visit her family. I don't call that fun. My family reads me like a book.

  Mable : What's the matter? Don't they like dime novels?