Pearl I'll be a good girl, ma'am. I promise I will. I want to be like you. That's what my father wanted.
Laura Belle I'm afraid that neither your father nor I found happiness child. I hope you will.
Played by Jennifer Jones 
Duel in the Sun (1946) · 18 quotes
Duel in the Sun (1946) · 18 quotes
Most-quoted character in Duel in the Sun (1946): in 8 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Lewt McCanles (3)
Scenes with Pearl
8 scenes Pearl Laura Belle 
Senator How'd they come to name you Pearl?
Pearl I don't know, sir.
Senator They couldn't have had much eye for color, could they? [laughter] They might have better called you Pocahontas or Minnie-ha-ha. Ain't I right?
Pearl I guess so.
Sin Killer
Pearl? You can be a woman of sin or a woman of God. Which is it to be?
Pearl I want to be a good girl.
Sin Killer
And remember that the devil is always aimin' to hog-tie ya. Sometimes he comes ghostin' over the plains in the shape of a sneakin' rustler. And sometimes, beggin' your pardon Laura Belle, he stakes out the homes of the worthy and the god-fearin'. Pearl, you're curved in the flesh of temptation. Resistance is gonna be a darn sight harder for you than for females protected by the shape of sows. Yes siree, bob. You gotta sweeten yourself with prayer. Pray till you sweat, and you'll save yourself from eternal hell-fire. You understand me girl?
Pearl Yes sir.
Jesse I might as well say it. I loved you. Somehow you touched me.
Pearl You, you loved me?
Jesse I thought of what you'd be like when you grew up a little.
Pearl Oh, I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me, Jesse?
Jesse I didn't think it would be fair to tell ya. I was a fool. I came to your room to say goodbye, to tell you that someday I'd be back for you. That I'd think about you and I'd write. I'll write to you, Pearl.
Pearl You will, Jesse, you will?
Jesse If you need me, I'll come back, senator or no senator.
Pearl: And you'll forget about, about tonight, won't you? You'll forget it?
Jesse No, I don't think I'll forget. I don't think I'll ever be able to. I shouldn't have told you the way I felt. It wasn't fair. There I go again. Gotta be fair.
Pearl [sobbing]
Trash. Trash, trash, trash, trash, trash.
Pearl Am I your girl, Lewt?
Of course you're my girl.
Pearl Then we can be married, can't we?
Ah, I guess so.
Pearl Now, if I'm not good enough to marry, I'm not good enough to kiss...It wouldn't do no harm to tell folks, would it?
Sure it wouldn't.
Pearl Can we tell 'em soon, Lewt? Can we tell 'em Saturday at the barbecue?
Sure we can. Why not?
Pearl [after Sam proposes to her]
You don't know about me. If you did, you wouldn't ask.
Sam You mean about Lewt?
Pearl So you know about me and Lewt too. Yeah, I guess ain't nobody don't know.
Sam Pearl, I've knocked around plenty.
Pearl I'm trash I tell ya, trash.
Sam Don't go telling me that! I'd kill the first man who said anything like that.
Pearl But I don't love you, Sam. Don't that matter?
Sam You've only known me a little while, Pearl...
Of all the ornery females. One minute you're yammerin' 'cause I don't love ya enough. And when I go out and show ya how much I do, you're wantin' to plug me. You're my girl, honey.
Pearl I was your girl.
Anybody who was my girl is still my girl. That's the kind of guy I am, you know, loyal.
Pearl Stay back.
There ain't nobody gonna take my girl. Nobody. Same little tigercat. You know, just when I figure I'm doin' fine and dandy, I start thinkin' about ya, I start thinkin' about ya and nothin' else is any good...
Pearl Lewt, I love you. I love you.
Oh, don't cry, honey. Don't cry.
Pearl I had to do it, Lewt. I had to do it.
Of course you did. Let me hold ya.
Pearl Just hold me. Hold me once more.
Little bob-cat.
[He dies mid-kiss. She dies shortly thereafter.]
