Shenandoah (1965)

Rosemary Forsyth: Jennie Anderson

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• [at the site of Charlie's wife's grave] 

  Jennie Anderson : You still miss her, don't you?

  Charlie Anderson : Jennie, you don't know how I feel. Even after all these years, 16 years gone, 16 years. And even so, I somehow feel that she's not really dead but just resting. And it's as though I'm expecting her to get up and walk home with me.

• Lt. Sam : I'd be eternally grateful if you'd permit me to call upon you this evening.

  Jennie Anderson : Eternally is a long time, Sam.

  Lt. Sam : Not when one carries a memory of you, Miss Jennie.

• Jennie Anderson : It's late Gabriel. Won't Mr. Abernathy be looking for you?

  Gabriel : He gone Missy, gone to Richmond. Left the Field boss in charge.

  Jennie Anderson : Well won't he be wondering where you are?

  Gabriel : Old Jethro don't care nothing about me! When my Momma died he even took our cabin. I don't have to go back do I Missy? Man said I'm free! Don't that mean I don't got to go back?

  Jennie Anderson : Well, if the man said your free Gabriel, I guess that means you can go any where in the world you want to go!

  Gabriel : You mean I just walk on down that road and keep on walking?

  Jennie Anderson : You can run if you like Gabriel!

  Gabriel : Goodbye Missy.

• Mrs. Ann Anderson : Here's something else you must remember: husbands like to be alone once in awhile.

  Jennie Anderson : Why?

  Mrs. Ann Anderson : You never know why, but I can always tell when James wants to be alone. A mood comes over him. I can always see it in his eyes before it gets there. I don't know where the mood comes from or why, but that's when I leave him alone. It seems sometimes things get so fickle in a man that he comes to feel that everything is closing in on him - and that's when he wants to be left alone. You understand, don't you?

  Jennie Anderson : No!

• Lt. Sam : I don't know what to say. I mean... Well, I know what to say, I just don't know how.

  Jennie Anderson : It must be all very complicated, then.

  Lt. Sam : No, it's, uh, just all memorized. Everything I wanted to say I've said a dozen times before I got here. I said it to my horse and it sounded good. I said it again to the trees ans it sounded better. I said it to the moon and it sounded perfect.

  Jennie Anderson : The moon can't hear you, Sam. He smiles and smiles, but he never hears. I do.

  Lt. Sam , Jennie Anderson : [noticing porch audience they walk further on]