You don't seem like Al's daughter.
Peggy Actually, I'm not. He's my son by a previous marriage.
Most-quoted role: Peggy in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), 9 quotes
Movies Peggy Peggy [explaining why she invited Fred and his wife]
I did it deliberately...to prove to myself that what happened this afternoon didn't really happen.
But it did happen. It had to happen. And if we go on seeing each other, Peggy, it will happen again.
Peggy I've made up my mind...I'm going to break that marriage up. I can't stand it seeing Fred tied to a woman he doesn't love and who doesn't love him. Oh it's horrible for him. It's humiliating and it's killing his spirit. Somebody's got to help him...He doesn't love her, he hates her. I know it. I know it.
Who are you, God? How did you get this power to interfere in other people's lives?
Is Fred in love with you?
Peggy Yes.
You've been seeing him.
Peggy Only once, today. Oh, it was all perfectly respectable. But when we were saying goodbye, he took me in his arms and kissed me and I knew.
And you think a kiss from a smooth operator like Fred - you think that means anything?
Peggy You don't know him. You don't know anything about what's inside him. And neither does she, his wife. That's probably what she thought when she married him. A smooth operator with money in his pockets. But now he isn't smooth any longer and she's lost interest in him.
Whereas you're possessed of all the wisdom of the ages. You can see into the secret recesses of his innermost soul.
Peggy I can see because I love him.
So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? Are you gonna do it with an axe?
Peggy It's none of your business how I'm gonna do it. You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.
You hear that, Milly? I'm so old and decrepit I've forgotten how it feels to want somebody desperately.
Peggy didn't mean that, did you darling?
Peggy Oh, no. I don't know what I do mean. It's just that, everything has always been so perfect for you. You loved each other and you got married in a big church, and you had a honeymoon in the south of France. And you never had any trouble of any kind. So how can you possibly understand how it is with Fred and me?
We never had any trouble. [To Al] How many times have I told you I hated you, and believed it in my heart. How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?
Carol Beldon I know how comfortable it is to curl up with a nice, fat book full of big words and think you're going to solve all the problems in the universe. But you're not, you know. A bit of action is required every now and then.
Did you know that the 12th Lord Beldon was hanged?
He was beheaded! Such things happen in the best families. In fact, usually in the best families.
Toby Miniver
Are you going to marry Carol, Vin?
Vin Miniver
Well, since you bring it up, Toby... I haven't had the nerve to ask her.
Toby Miniver
Why not? You're brave, aren't you?
Judy Miniver
Don't be so silly, Toby. Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.
Toby Miniver
Why not?
Judy Miniver
Well, it isn't romantic.
Vin Miniver
Of course it isn't.
Carol Beldon Toby.
Toby Miniver
What?
Carol Beldon Why don't you ask me if I'm going to marry Vin?
Toby Miniver
Are you?
Carol Beldon If he asks me.
Toby Miniver
He's afraid.
Laura Roberts [seeing Elise return home]
How is the play? Did you enjoy it? Are you all right?
This is not for a play, Miss Roberts. This is something very personal. [shows her the pocket watch]
Laura Roberts Where did you get that?
Well, she gave it to me, ma'am. At the opening night of a play that I wrote at Millfield College about eight years ago.
Laura Roberts That watch was very precious to her. She never, never left it out of her possession. It disappeared the night she died.
She died that night?
Laura Roberts [about Elise]
When I knew her, she was kind and thoughtful. But she was just too much within herself. She seemed empty somehow.
She wasn't always that way, was she?
Laura Roberts Oh, no, not at all. People who knew her when she was young said that she was quick and bright and full of fun. Strong, willful, not at all the way she was later.
What made her change?
Laura Roberts I don't know. But the change seemed to have taken place about 1912, after she performed in a play at the Grand Hotel.