Queen Bee (1955)

Eva Phillips: We will have a talk, won't we, Judd. Like old times.
Judson Prentiss: There's nothing to discuss.
Eva Phillips: I think we should talk. I don't like to insist. But I insist.

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Eva Phillips: [about the doctor tending to her son, Ted] That doctor Pearson is so absurd. He actually trembles when I talk to him. You'd think he'd never seen a beautiful woman before!
Jennifer Stewart: What did he say?
Eva Phillips: Oh the most extravagant things...
Jennifer Stewart: I meant about TED.

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Judson Prentiss: You're like some fancy kind of disease. I had it once - now I'm immune.

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Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, recounted in her autobiography "Mommy Dearest" that she had to leave the theater midway through a showing of this film because it was too true-to-life in her mother's portrayal of the main character.
The oil portrait of the gentlemen above the fireplace is that of Luke Cosgrove. It was originally created for the 1938 Columbia film Holiday with Katherine Hepburn.
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