Katrin Hanson: [reading the novel that she's just finished] "For long as I could remember, the house on the Larkin Street Hill had been home. Papa and Mama had both born in Norway but they came to San Francisco because Mama's sisters were here, all of us were born here. Nels, the oldest and the only boy, my sister Christine and the littlest sister Dagmar but first and foremost I remember Mama".


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Katrin) in I Remember Mama

Leonora Eames: Look at me! Look at what you bought!


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Leonora Eames) in Caught

Leonora Eames: Posture and social useage
Smith Ohlrig: Social what?
Leonora Eames: Useage. You know, conversation, etiquette, how to pour tea
[Leonora mines this action with her hand]
Leonora Eames: , how to listen to music
[Leonora then places two fingers from her hand to her right ear]
Leonora Eames: , how to... please watch the road.


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Leonora Eames) in Caught

Midge: I talked to the woman in musical therapy, and she said that Mozart's the boy for you.


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Midge Wood) in Vertigo

Midge: You want to know something? I don't think Mozart's going to help at all.


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Midge Wood) in Vertigo

Nancy Reed: If there's a plague here, you're the most important guy in this town.


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Nancy Reed) in Panic in the Streets

Scottie: Midge, who do you know that's an authority on San Francisco history?
Midge: That's the kind of greeting a girl likes! Not this "Hello-you-look-wonderful" stuff, just a good straight "Who do you know that's an authority on San Francisco his - -"
[interrupted]


--Barbara Bel Geddes (as Midge Wood) in Vertigo