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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I didn't say I know what it means. I said I liked it

Francie Nolan:

"Beshrew the witch! With venomous..." Neeley Nolan:
That ain't even English! Francie Nolan:
It is, too! Shakespeare wrote the best English of anybody! Neeley Nolan:
All right, then you tell me what it means, you're so smart. Francie Nolan:
I didn't say I know what it means. I said I liked it

Full Transcript

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"Troilus. 'Beshrew the witch! With venomous..."'
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That ain't even English! It is, too!
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Shakespeare wrote the best English of anybody!
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All right, then you tell me what it means, you're so smart.
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I didn't say I know what it means. I said I liked it.
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That'll do.
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Okay, but I bet you don't know what it means, either.
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Maybe not, but I do know it's good for you.
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"Beshrew the witch! With venomous..."
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She don't know what it means.
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Mom don't know what it means. Grandma can't even read.
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And gosh knows I don't know what it...
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Mama, I can't read if he...
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Just wasting time every night reading stuff
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nobody knows what it's all about.
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Now, listen. Your Aunt Sissy brought that Bible
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all the way from Sheepshead Bay,
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and your papa blew in all his tips one time on that Shakespeare
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'cause Grandma said they was the greatest book
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and you should read from 'em every night, so ya ain't gonna waste them.
Duration
49 seconds
Views
1,019
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:39
Uploaded
Oct 07, 2021
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Production
20th Century Fox

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Movie Summary

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Actors

Peggy Ann Garner
Francie Nolan
Ted Donaldson
Neeley Nolan