Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Jess MacAbee Story (1959)
Glenda Farrell: Belle MacAbee
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Quotes
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Cora Belle MacAbee : Shouldn't I wait until I'm sorry?
Belle MacAbee : When a gentleman gets his feathers ruffled, a Southern lady always smooths them down.
Cora Belle MacAbee : Sometimes I wish I was a Northern lady.
Belle MacAbee : Cora Belle MacAbee, that's treason.
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Jess MacAbee : Where could he get a better selection?
Flint McCullough : But your girls, they don't want to marry me.
Jess MacAbee : Well, they're females, they're not supposed to know what they want.
Belle MacAbee : They think you're the most wonderful man they've ever seen.
Flint McCullough : YES, BUT I'M THE ONLY MAN THEY'VE EVER SEEN.
Jess MacAbee : Well, don't knock that, lad. You can't suffer by comparison.
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Belle MacAbee : A woman forgets many things, Mr McCullough. But she never forgets her first love.
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Jess MacAbee : Sally Belle, any gentleman would have done the same.
Belle MacAbee : Any Southern gentleman.
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Jess MacAbee : I got all I can do to do the cooking around here.
Belle MacAbee : We'll manage.
Jess MacAbee : Now you know I gotta stay in the shade. I can't stand strong sun.
Belle MacAbee : And you know that I can.
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Belle MacAbee : [Lesson time] You are just entering Judge Beauregarde's ballroom. A hundred violins are playing the Viennese waltz. Judge Beauregarde comes to greet you. Good evening, Miss Sally Belle. My goodness, if you ain't a picture.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Good evening, Judge Beauregarde. Isn't it a heavenly night. Did you ever see such a moon? To smell the fragrance of the jasmine and magnolias.
Belle MacAbee : May I present my nephew, Mr Archibald Beauregarde.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Mr Archibald Beauregarde, I've heard so much about you. Been just longing to meet you.
Belle MacAbee : Now take his arm, now lower your head a little more, now smile at him through your lashes. Oh, very nice. Now, that'll give Mr Archibald Beauregarde something to think about.
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Belle MacAbee : Mr MacAbee, you are raising your voice.
Jess MacAbee : Now look what you done.
Flint McCullough : Good evening, Ma'am.
[Flint rises from the hammock]
Belle MacAbee : I'm dreaming. I'll wake up in a minute and didn't really hear a man's voice.
Flint McCullough : My name is Flint McCullough.
[And he shakes her hand]
Jess MacAbee : He just coming and he just going.
[Mrs MacAbee feels up Flint's arm to his chest, and faints]
Jess MacAbee : She never done that before.
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Flint McCullough : President Polk? Well, how long you folks been here?
Belle MacAbee : Well, Mr MacAbee brought me here twenty years ago and I haven't been out of this valley since. And the girls haven't been out at all.
Flint McCullough : Well, I'm afraid President Polk is long gone. Since him there's been Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Millard Philmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln of course, Andrew Jackson. There's been the Civil War.
Belle MacAbee : Civil War?
Flint McCullough : Eleven states seceded from the Union.
Belle MacAbee : How wicked.
Jess MacAbee : I've always said those Yankees were unstable.
Sally Belle MacAbee : What Yankee states left the Union, Mr McCullough?
Flint McCullough : The Yankee states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : The whole South?
Sally Belle MacAbee : Out of the Union?
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Belle MacAbee : Mr McCullough, Mr MacAbee apologises.
Flint McCullough : I accept Mr MacAbee's apology.
Jess MacAbee : Well, don't strain yourself.
Flint McCullough : No strain at all, Sir.
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Jess MacAbee : Well, I guess we do owe that fellow something. I'll tell you what, I'll let him pick his choice of our daughters. He can marry whichever one he hankers to.
Belle MacAbee : Ooh, thank you, Mr MacAbee, I was hoping against hope you'd say that.
Jess MacAbee : I'll tell him the good news in the morning. My son-in-law. I hope he's handy around the house.
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Belle MacAbee : Oh, my. They mean business, don't they?
Jess MacAbee : I'll take charge, Mrs MacAbee. Don't you worry.
[And at the sight of the eight Indians lined up, he faints]
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Lilly Belle MacAbee : The Indians are building a fire.
Anna Belle MacAbee : They're gonna burn us alive.
Cora Belle MacAbee : I'm gonna get scalped.
Belle MacAbee : Girls. Don't upset your father.
Jess MacAbee : You girls get below. Southern gentleman always takes care of his lady folks.
Anna Belle MacAbee : You raised us Western and we're with you shoulder to shoulder.