Her Twelve Men (1954)

Greer Garson: Jan Stewart

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Quotes 

• Jan Stewart : Now play. Play or I'll bash your brains in!

• [first lines] 

  Jan Stewart : [voice over]  When I was a child and given to daydreaming, I had many visions of myself as a grown-up. One of these visions was of myself high in the air while below everyone else went... .

  [sound of applause while Jan is shown on a trapeze] 

  Jan Stewart : [voice over continues]  In another of my daydreams, I was the happy mother of four boys and four girls... all of them exactly four years old. As I grew older, I saw myself in a dream ballroom waltzing with the Crown Prince of Our Kingdom. His heart was breaking because I refused to marry him. It was out of the question... I had already promised to marry the junior senator from my home state. There were other daydreams. Always, I was glamorous... heroic... and well loved. But dreams have a way of ending. Quite suddenly, you can wake up and find yourself, as I did, that day in September, starting life over again when I went to a place I'd never been to do something I never dreamed of doing, and trying not to show how scared I was.

• Jan Stewart : [about the school]  What don't you like about it... the teachers?

  Kevin Clark : They're a bunch of jerks. A couple are okay. They're pretty good guys, a couple of 'em.

  Jan Stewart : Guys? Have you never had a woman teacher?

  Kevin Clark : [in an exasperated tone]  A woman? That'd be horrible. Women teachers are creeps. Are you somebody's mother or what?

  Jan Stewart : [nervously]  I, uh... I'm a creep.