Three Secrets (1950)
Eleanor Parker: Susan Adele Connors Chase
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Quotes
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Bill Chase : Anything new on the Johnnie Peterson thing?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : Who's Johnnie Peterson?
Bill Chase : You mean you haven't heard?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : No.
Bill Chase : [Smiles] The good American housewife loves her radio first and her husband second.
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Susan Adele Connors Chase : [Coyly, after Bill kisses her] Bill, mother's in the house.
Bill Chase : She is? Lucky for you.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : She's gonna stay with me while you're gone.
Bill Chase : [Holding her] Good. Keep you out of trouble.
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Mrs. Connors : Susan, get a hold of yourself.
[Susan continues to read the newspaper article on the plane crash]
Mrs. Connors : Susan, do you think yours is the only child born five years ago today?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : He came from the shelter.
Mrs. Connors : They handled hundreds of babies.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : Oh, mother. All you have to do is look at him.
Mrs. Connors : What do you expect me to see?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : He has my mouth and my coloring.
Mrs. Connors : Is that your evidence? A newspaper picture? Five years later?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : I can't help it. I can feel it. It's mine.
Mrs. Connors : All right. What if it is? There's nothing you can do about it except throw away your marriage. You think you can tell Bill?
Susan Adele Connors Chase : I should have told him a long time ago the truth.
Mrs. Connors : It's too late for the truth. Darling, listen to me.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : If I hadn't listened to you, my child wouldn't have been on that plane.
Mrs. Connors : I'm trying to help you. You made a mistake and have done your penance. Five minutes ago you told me you wrapped up your girlish grief. Don't bring it out in the open again. Don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to Bill.
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Paul Radin : [Before leaving for the military] There's someone else.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : Someone else?
Paul Radin : Back home. Before I met you. I... I can't forget her. I tried to but I can't.
Paul Radin : Do you really love her?
Paul Radin : We went to school together. We've known each other since we were kids. Susan, I can't even explain it to myself. All I can ask is please forgive me... Say something. Say goodbye to me. Tell me you hope I get killed. But don't just stand there looking at me.
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Susan Adele Connors Chase : Why did you come here?
Phyllis Horn : Just a reporter covering a story. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were my own?
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Susan Adele Connors Chase : Who is the mother? Did you find out?
Ann Lawrence : We cancelled the call.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : But why?
Ann Lawrence : We thought if was better if we never found out. In a way he belongs to all three of us. And since all of us can't have him, we decided that you are the one to try to adopt him.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : I don't understand.
Phyllis Horn : Yes, that was our decision.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : But you just can't leave it like this. You aren't being fair to yourselves. You'll blame yourself all you life if you don't find out.
Ann Lawrence : Listen, Susan. You can get Johnnie. No court in the world would turn you two down.
Susan Adele Connors Chase : But if he's yours?
Ann Lawrence : Even if he turned out to be mine I have nothing to offer him. Don't make me find him just to lose him all over again. It's much easier to tell myself that maybe he's yours.