Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Vivian Carter Story (1959)

Jane Darwell: Mrs. Anderson

Quotes 

• Mrs. Anderson : Well, that's a fool thing to say. Didn't your proper Boston upbringing allow you gracious receiving?

  Vivian Carter : This was all your idea, wasn't it?

  Mrs. Anderson : Oh no, it wasn't. I've buried two husbands and I'm living with the third. And I'm not liable to well over just because somebody is liable to have their first at your age.

• Mrs. Anderson : The last good man in the world didn't die yesterday. I'm the living testamonial to that it can still happen.

• Mrs. Anderson : You missed a bad marriage. Haven't you got sense to know that?

• Flint McCullough : [Flint wraps his arms around Mrs Anderson as though she was his mother]  Mrs Anderson. Well, have you missed me?

  Mrs. Anderson : Been worried sick. You been gone?

  [Other ladies at the campfire laugh] 

  Flint McCullough : Only a week... I haven't seen Vivian Carter around anywhere.

  Mrs. Anderson : You're no different to the rest of us. None of us see her.

  Flint McCullough : Did she leave the train?

  Mrs. Anderson : Only in a manner of speaking.