The Little Colonel (1935 film) Quotes

The Little Colonel (1935 film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . The Little Colonel stopped airing in 1970.

It features Buddy G. DeSylva as producer, Cyril J. Mockridge in charge of musical score, and Arthur C. Miller as head of cinematography.

The Little Colonel (1935 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Little Colonel (1935 film) is 80 minutes long. The Little Colonel (1935 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Lionel Barrymore as Col. Lloyd, Bill Robinson as Walker, William Burress as Dr. Scott, Evelyn Venable as Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman, John Davis Lodge as Jack Sherman, Avonnie Jackson as May Lily, Robert Warwick as Col. Gray, Sidney Blackmer as Swazey, Nyanza Potts as Henry Clay, Geneva Williams as Maria, and Stephen Chase as Hull.

The Little Colonel (1935 film) Quotes

Robert Warwick as Col. Gray

• (Robert Warwick) "Completely armed except for your golden curls, brown eyes and your dimples, you've captured an entire regiment."

• (Unnamed) "Now that I'm a colonel, can't I play with the boys anymore?"
• (Robert Warwick) "Why, of course you can."
• (Unnamed) "Well, you don't. Do colonels have to go to bed at 7:00?"
• (Robert Warwick) "Why, no, sometimes colonels stay up as late as 8:00."
• (Unnamed) "I wish you'd tell my mother that."
• (Robert Warwick) "I will."

Evelyn Venable as Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman

• (Evelyn Venable) "Tell me, dear, what happened?"
• (John Davis Lodge) "Swazey and Hull were thieves. The land they sold me was worthless. We're ruined. We haven't a penny."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Jack, is all our money gone?"
• (John Davis Lodge) "All of it. When I found out I got swindled, I almost went crazy. And on top of it, I got this fever."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Hush, dear. Don't think of that now. You must be quiet."
• (John Davis Lodge) "Poor Elizabeth. You made a sorry bargain when you gave up your beautiful home to marry me."
• (Evelyn Venable) "I'd do it again."

• (Unnamed) "There are some things to be considered besides your pride, Elizabeth. There's the child herself, you know. You ought to think of her interests."
• (Evelyn Venable) "I don't care. I don't want anything from him."
• (Unnamed) "I know, dear, but just the same I say you ought to think of Lloyd. If I were you, I'd let her go over there as often as she pleases. And who knows? It might end in your all making up some day."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Never. Not after the terrible things he said about Jack."

• (Unnamed) "Mother, do I have to stay here very long?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "No, dear, just until Papa Jack is well."
• (Unnamed) "You know, I'm gonna be awful lonesome without you."
• (Evelyn Venable) "You're going to be brave, aren't you? You promised you would."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, but when I promised, I didn't know I'd feel this way."

• (Evelyn Venable) "Mom Beck, I'm expecting Aunt Sally Tyler for lunch. Will you have enough?"
• (Unnamed) "I don't know if I can stretch one small chicken, but as long as the water's runnin', we'll have soup enough."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Well, do the best you can."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Honey, don't eat that now. You'll spoil your lunch."
• (Unnamed) "Is Aunt Sally Tyler my aunt too?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "She's your great-aunt, dear."
• (Unnamed) "My great-aunt? Oh, I remember, the big fat one."
• (Evelyn Venable) "You must be very polite to her, dear. She's coming all the way from Louisville to see us."
• (Unnamed) "All right, Mother, I will."

• (Unnamed) "Can that be Lloyd that Becky is carrying?"
• (Unnamed) "Hello, Mother. How do you do, Aunt Sally Tyler?"
• (Unnamed) "How do you do, dear?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "Where have you been?"
• (Unnamed) "I've been to see my grandfather, and I threw mud on him."
• (Evelyn Venable) "You threw mud on him?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, because he poked me with a stick. Then I got mad and he got mad, and we hollered at each other."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh baby, how could you disgrace Mother by going over there looking like a dirty little beggar?"
• (Unnamed) "I didn't beg him for anything."
• (Evelyn Venable) "You've been a very naughty girl, and you're going to be punished. Becky, take her inside. Give her a bath and put her to bed."
• (Unnamed) "Yes'm."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh, I'm terribly upset. I wouldn't for worlds have him think I encouraged her in going there."

• (Unnamed) "Mother, who was that?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "Your grandfather."
• (Unnamed) "Why didn't he come in?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "He didn't want to."
• (Unnamed) "Did he make you cry?"

• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh the days are gone when beauty bright my heart's chain wove, / When my dream of life from morn 'till night was love still love. / New hope may bloom and days may come of milder, calmer beam, / But there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. / Oh there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."

Lionel Barrymore as Col. Lloyd

• (Lionel Barrymore) "Walker, I want you to go to town on Saturday and buy a lot of little girls clothes."
• (Bill Robinson) "What shall I buy, sir?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Well, what do you suppose? Hats, shoes, stockings, dresses, and whatever goes under the dresses. And Walker?"
• (Bill Robinson) "Yes, sir?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "I'm an old fool."
• (Bill Robinson) "Yes, sir."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "Child, you're a true Lloyd. You've got all the fire and courage our family's always had. And you've got the same infernal temper that's been our curse. It's going to cause you a lot of unhappiness unless you learn to control it. Will you try?"
• (Unnamed) "I will if you will."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Well, you've got a lot more time to learn than I have."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "Let's get back to this game. These men are yours. Now, I'll be the Confederacy, and you'll be the Union."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, goody, goody, goody. I got the winning side already."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Oh, no, you haven't. I'll show you."
• (Unnamed) "Maybe you'd like to be the North, and I'll be the South?"

• (Unnamed) "Grandfather, Grandfather."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "What under the sun? Why, child, what is it? What's the matter?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, Grandfather, you've gotta come with me right away."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Come where?"
• (Unnamed) "Home to my house. There are two bad men there, and they're saying bad things to Papa Jack."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "I wouldn't set foot in that house for anybody or anything."
• (Unnamed) "But you've got to. Papa Jack is sick, and those two men are going to hurt him."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Why should I help a Yankee?"
• (Unnamed) "Because he's my papa, and I love him."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "What are you wearing those old clothes for? Why don't they dress you up when you go visiting? It isn't showing proper respect to send you off in the oldest things you have."
• (Unnamed) "They're the best I've got, and I like them. And anyway, I don't need any new ones because pretty soon we'll be going away."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Going away? Where?"
• (Unnamed) "To the poorhouse."

• (Unnamed) "Play a game with me."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "What kind of a game?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, it couldn't be tag or prisoner's base, could it?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "No, no, it couldn't."
• (Unnamed) "It better be a sit-down game, then. Do you know how to play jacks?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Jacks? Do you play that with cards?"
• (Unnamed) "No, with a ball."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Oh, then I don't know how to play it, no. Do you play cribbage?"
• (Unnamed) "Cribbage? Is that like hopscotch?"

• (Lionel Barrymore) "You're going to come see me again, aren't you, even though your mother tells you not to?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, Grandfather, and the next time we play, we won't quarrel."

• (Unnamed) "Grandfather?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Well, what is it?"
• (Unnamed) "I'm sorry I threw mud on you. And I'm sorry I lost my temper. And I'm sorry I took the sheets off your bed."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "What? You took my sheets?"
• (Unnamed) "I had to have them."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "What under the sun's goin' on here? What are you doing?"
• (Unnamed) "Hello, Grandfather. We were just baptizing Henry Clay."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Baptizing Henry Clay?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, and he must be awful bad, because it took two dunks to save him."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "That was your grandmother, dear. And that was her song you just sang."
• (Unnamed) "I know. My mother teached it to me. Teached isn't right, is it?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "No, taught is correct."
• (Unnamed) "Taught, then. What was my grandmother's name?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Her name was Amanthis."
• (Unnamed) "Amanthis? That's a beautiful name."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "She was a beautiful person. With a beautiful soul."
• (Unnamed) "I wish she was here now."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "You do, dear? Why?"
• (Unnamed) "I know if she was here, she'd go right to my mother and kiss away all of her sorry feelings."

• (Unnamed) "Grandfather, do you know any blue stories?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Blue stories? Well, I do -- a few."
• (Unnamed) "Tell me one."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "I don't know any that I can tell you."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "Oh, stop chattering, Walker."
• (Bill Robinson) "Yes, sir."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "I don't want to hear all this gossip."
• (Bill Robinson) "No, sir. I was going to tell you about the cottage, sir, but I suspect you're not interested."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "The cottage?"
• (Bill Robinson) "Yes, sir. Someone's moved into it."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Walker. Confound you, why don't you let me know when things are going on around here? Who's moving into the cottage?"
• (Bill Robinson) "I don't know, sir."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "It's been empty a long time now, ever since; well, maybe I'd better call on our new neighbors and see what kind of folks they are."
• (Bill Robinson) "Yes, sir. Having some new neighbors won't make it so lonely 'round here."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Who says it's lonely 'round here?"
• (Bill Robinson) "Not me, no sir."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Anyway, I like it lonely."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "What are you doing here?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "Wait, Jack, let me tell him. Father, this is the man I'm going to marry. I knew you would never give your consent, so that's why we were going to elope."
• (John Davis Lodge) "I wanted to come to you, sir, and ask your permission, but?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Silence. Why did you assume that I would object to an honorable marriage?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "I know how you feel about the South."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "I hate all Yankees."
• (Evelyn Venable) "That's why we didn't come and tell you."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Then you knew you were doing wrong. How can you marry a man who represents everything that a true Southerner should hate? A man who fought against your father, your brother, and all your kinfolk. For all you know, he may have fired the shot that killed your brother."
• (John Davis Lodge) "I was in the war, sir, and though I fought on the other side, the South has always had my admiration and respect. My mother was a Virginian. But might I remind you, sir, that the war has been over for some time."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "The war will never be over for me and mine, sir. I want to kill you. I don't know but what I will. Elizabeth, go to your room."
• (Evelyn Venable) "No."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Go to your room, I tell you."
• (Evelyn Venable) "I'm going with Jack."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Elizabeth, when that door closes, it will never open for you again."

• (Lionel Barrymore) "Maria, I've got a young lady here whose clothes need drying."
• (Geneva Williams) "Yes, sir?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Well, take her."
• (Geneva Williams) "But Colonel sir, what can I put her in while her clothes is a-dryin'? I ain't got nothin' for a little girl to wear."
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Uh, Walker, go up into the attic, and you'll find a small trunk. There may be some clothes in there that will fit Miss Lloyd."
• (Bill Robinson) "A small trunk in the attic, sir?"
• (Lionel Barrymore) "Yes, you numbskull. Don't you understand English? Attend to it right away."
• (Bill Robinson) "Do you know whose trunk that is and whose clothes they is?"
• (Geneva Williams) "Course I do. You go on now and fetch them things. We don't want no menfolk 'round here."
• (Bill Robinson) "With that face, you don't have to worry."

Avonnie Jackson as May Lily

• (Avonnie Jackson) "Why, Miss Lloyd, them's the colonel's flowers."
• (Unnamed) "Well, we're not afraid of the colonel."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "Who ain't afraid? Maybe you ain't, but I is."
• (Unnamed) "Now listen, May Lily. You too, Henry Clay. I'm the colonel and you're my men, and in the army you have to obey orders. Forward march."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "I don't think I'm gonna like bein' the army."
• (Unnamed) "Aw."

• (Unnamed) "And I only had one shot left. And I aimed my gun, and bang. I killed those three Indians."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "Why, Miss Lloyd, did you really do that?"
• (Unnamed) "Of course not, that's just a story. And you don't have to call me Miss Lloyd. You can call me Colonel."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "Is you a colonel too?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, I am, a real colonel."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "You can't be no colonel."
• (Unnamed) "Why not?"
• (Avonnie Jackson) "'Cause you ain't got no whiskers."
• (Unnamed) "I don't need to have whiskers. I've got temper. That's all you need to be a colonel."
• (Avonnie Jackson) "I guess that's right, 'cause all the colonels I ever seen had tempers. I hope you're not a colonel like him over there. If you was, I'd be afeared to play with you."

• (Avonnie Jackson) "Colonel, your army is retreatin' right now."

Sidney Blackmer as Swazey

• (Sidney Blackmer) "Why, Jack, old partner. What's happened to you?"
• (John Davis Lodge) "I've been very ill."
• (Sidney Blackmer) "Gee, that's too bad. Anything we can do? Maybe when you find out what we've come for, you'll feel better. When we sold you that land, we did it in good faith. We thought there was gold and plenty on it, and then we went off to California. On our way back, we stopped to see how you were faring, and we found out what had happened. Partner, we felt bad. Didn't we?"
• (Stephen Chase) "That's right."
• (Sidney Blackmer) "Now we'll prove we're honest. We made a long trip to find you to give you back your money."
• (John Davis Lodge) "You did, did you?"
• (Sidney Blackmer) "Why, I couldn't sleep again if I thought you'd lost money. All we ask is that you hand over the deed to the property, and we'll pay you what you paid us, fair and square."
• (John Davis Lodge) "That's very kind and generous of you. Now be kind enough to get out of my house. You found out my land was valuable and the railroad wanted it, and I found out what kind of men you are. Now get out."
• (Sidney Blackmer) "Now partner, we came here to make an honest business deal for that deed. But if you're going to get rough about it, we'll have to get it another way."

Bill Robinson as Walker

• (Bill Robinson) "Looks like this old house ain't gonna be lonesome no more."

• (Unnamed) "Mom Beck, why do they dunk the women in the river that way?"
• (Unnamed) "That's to save their souls and wash their sins away."
• (Unnamed) "Will it wash my sins away?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, honey, you ain't got no sins. You is a little angel."
• (Unnamed) "Well, would it wash my sins away if I had any?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, honey. If you carried the right thought and believed it would."
• (Unnamed) "Were you ever dunked, Mom Beck?"
• (Bill Robinson) "A little river like that wouldn't do her no good. Child, she needs the Mississippi."

• (Bill Robinson) "Looky here, how is Miss Elizabeth?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, her health is all right, but I think she worries 'bout Mister Jack. He better come home pretty soon."
• (Bill Robinson) "What you mean, you ain't got no m -"
• (Bill Robinson) "Uh -- M-O-N-I-E?"
• (Unnamed) "Not only that, we's 'most outta F-U-D-E."
• (Bill Robinson) "Well, looky here, couldn't the K-U-N-E-L give a little L-O-N-E?"
• (Unnamed) "You know Miss Elizabeth wouldn't take nothin' from him. Why, before she'd do that, she'd go to the, uh -- the -- P-O-H-O-S."
• (Bill Robinson) "P-O-H-O-S?"
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, sure, ain't you got no education? The poorhouse."
• (Bill Robinson) "Oh, no."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, indeed."

• (Bill Robinson) "Miss Lloyd, where you going?"
• (Unnamed) "I'm going home to Mother. She loves me, even if my clothes are old and ugly."
• (Bill Robinson) "Why, Miss Lloyd, the colonel loves you, too. It's just because his rheumatism's botherin' him that he's so cranky. My, my, you should hear the things he says. They'd make your hair curl."
• (Unnamed) "Would they really make my hair curl?"
• (Bill Robinson) "Sure would, Miss Lloyd. Look what they did to mine. Come on, now."
• (Unnamed) "I don't want to go up there."
• (Bill Robinson) "Why, everybody's got to go upstairs, Miss Lloyd, if they wants to go to bed."
• (Unnamed) "But I don't want to."
• (Bill Robinson) "Look here, will you go if I shows you a new way how to go upstairs?"
• (Unnamed) "How can there be a new way to go upstairs?"

John Davis Lodge as Jack Sherman

• (John Davis Lodge) "I want to thank you, Bob, for everything."
• (Robert Warwick) "It's been a great pleasure having you and your family with us, even for so short a time. Quite different from Philadelphia, isn't it?"
• (Evelyn Venable) "Yes, indeed. We lived there for six years, but I never got used to the dreadful noise of the horse cars."
• (Robert Warwick) "Jack told me that you'd sold your house there."
• (John Davis Lodge) "We sold everything, lock, stock, and barrel. Took Greely's advice to go west, and here we are to find our fortune. I'm depending on your help for that."
• (Sidney Blackmer) "Oh, there's plenty there for the finding, if we're lucky."
• (Evelyn Venable) "I do wish we didn't have to go back home to Lloydsboro."
• (John Davis Lodge) "Now, dear, we've settled all that."
• (Robert Warwick) "This wild country is no place for women and children, and where Jack's going it's even rougher. Besides, Jack told me you have a lovely home waiting for you."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh, that sounds too grand. It's really just a cottage my mother left me."

• (Unnamed) "Do you have the deed here?"
• (John Davis Lodge) "It's at my bank."
• (Unnamed) "Well, you bring it here, and I'll have a check for you. That's the way the Union-Pacific does business."
• (John Davis Lodge) "This is more cure than all the medicine. I'm well again."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh no, you're not. You just stay right here."
• (John Davis Lodge) "The best part of it is, we won't have to ask your father for anything, and he can't laugh at me for being a failure. Darling, you go to the bank. I'll give you a note to take to Mr. Jennings. You bring back all the papers I left there. The deed is with them."
• (Evelyn Venable) "Oh, it's almost too good to be true."

Geneva Williams as Maria

• (Geneva Williams) "My, my, you is the spittin' image of your mother. You got the same goldy hair and pinky cheeks."
• (Unnamed) "Did my mother have a temper, too?"
• (Geneva Williams) "Yes, indeed she did."

William Burress as Dr. Scott

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