Barbara Marshall: Dad. Dad, I want to ask you a question.
Mr. Marshall: Fine. Fire away.
Barbara Marshall: You know, you never told me anything about Mary. I mean, why she was sent to prison, and why she ...
Mr. Marshall: You can find out about that some other time, when you're a little older.
Barbara Marshall: But it can't be so secret. I don't see why I shouldn't know.
Mr. Marshall: Barbara, you can find out about that some other time. It's just that Mary made a little mistake, and that's all there is to it.
Barbara Marshall: But they don't send people to prison for just doing nothing.
Mr. Marshall: Now, look, Barbara, I'm trying to listen to the radio and work this puzzle, and I can't take on any other jobs at the moment.
Barbara Marshall: But, what if my friends ask me about her? What'll I tell them? They'll want to know why ...
Mr. Marshall: Just tell them that Mary is your cousin. From that point on, they can mind their own business. And it seems to me that your business might be helping your mother out in the kitchen.
Barbara Marshall: [laughing] Oh, Dad. Sometimes the way you talk to me, you make me feel like I'm an adopted daughter or something.


--Shirley Temple (as Barbara Marshall) in I'll Be Seeing You

Barbara Marshall: You going back to active duty, Zach?
Zachary Morgan: Not for a while yet.
Barbara Marshall: Gee, you look a lot better than you did a week ago.
Zachary Morgan: Feel a lot better.
Barbara Marshall: Do you think it was the Marshall food that did it?
Zachary Morgan: Must've helped. I think it was mostly your cousin Mary.
Barbara Marshall: She's awfully nice.
Zachary Morgan: I've noticed that, too. You know what? I think I'll marry her.
Barbara Marshall: Are you kidding?
Zachary Morgan: Not as far as I'm concerned. Of course, I don't know about her, yet.
Barbara Marshall: Well, won't you mind waiting?
Zachary Morgan: That's up to Mary, really. Things have worked out so well, that I may not have to wait as long as I thought.
Barbara Marshall: Well, that's what the folks have always hoped, that she won't have to serve her full term now. But the fact that they let her out of prison for Christmas is a pretty good sign. You know, it wasn't until the other night, when she told me how it all happened, I realized that it really isn't her fault. She's not a criminal. I mean, not like real criminals. Oh, it's too bad that you two can't go back on the train together, but then Mary isn't due in Easton until nine o'clock tonight. She wants to spend as much time with us as she can. You can't blame her, after being locked up for three years.


--Shirley Temple (as Barbara Marshall) in I'll Be Seeing You

Betsy Brown: [singing] Don't wear a long face, it's never in style! Be optimistic and smile!


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Little Miss Broadway

Betsy Brown: Barbara is awful smart. She reads great big books when she's not helping Pop run the hotel.
Roger Wendling: She does?
Betsy Brown: Yes, she told me she's studying how not to be an actress.
Roger Wendling: I see. Well, does she have any boyfriends?
Betsy Brown: Oh, yes, lots of them. There's Ole, the Martins, Jimmy and his Jazz Bandits...
Roger Wendling: No, I mean someone who takes her out to dinner. A sweetheart?
Betsy Brown: Oh, no. I guess she's just an old maid, like I was before you came along.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Little Miss Broadway

Betsy Brown: I used to be an orphan before Pop adopted me.
Roger Wendling: That is a coincidence, you know, I used to be an orphan myself!
Betsy Brown: It's too bad we weren't orphans at the same time. We could've had lots of fun together!


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Little Miss Broadway

Betsy Brown: If you're looking for Miss Wendling, she isn't home. I'm waiting for her too, on important business.
Roger Wendling: Maybe if it's very important, I might put in a good word for you.
Betsy Brown: Oh! do you know Miss Wendling?
Roger Wendling: Oh, yes, very well. You see, she's my aunt.
Betsy Brown: She is? Well, say! Would you give her this
[handing him a child's piggy bank]
Betsy Brown: and tell her it's on account of the rent for the hotel?
Roger Wendling: The hotel? What hotel?
Betsy Brown: Next door.
Roger Wendling: Whom shall I say this is from?
Betsy Brown: From Betsy. No, from Pop, Mr. Shea.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Little Miss Broadway

Corliss Archer: [Mrs. Archer thinks Corliss is pregnant] Mother, do you think I'm awful?
Janet Archer: I've already told you what I think, and it hasn't made the slightest impression. You don't seem to realize what a dreadful thing this is. Oh, I don't understand you, Corliss.
Corliss Archer: Mother, do you hate me? Please, don't hate me.
Janet Archer: Hate you? Oh, darling! Darling, of course I don't hate you.
Corliss Archer: You know, I think Daddy'd like to break my neck.
Janet Archer: Only because he loves you so, you little idiot.
Corliss Archer: Mom, please don't feel so awful. Oh, Mom, please don't cry. Oh, if only I could explain ...
Janet Archer: I'm so ashamed, Corliss. I feel it's all my fault.
Corliss Archer: Oh, Mom, no, no!
Janet Archer: To think, how we used to dream about the day you'd get married.
Corliss Archer: But, Mother, we are married.
Janet Archer: What?
Corliss Archer: Well, naturally, Mom. I mean, golly. Well, surely you didn't think that - well, naturally we're married.
Janet Archer: But Corliss -
Corliss Archer: Mom, how could you possibly think we weren't married?
Janet Archer: Then why didn't you say so?
Corliss Archer: Well, I haven't had a chance. Daddy's been yelling ever since, and I was sent to my room.


--Shirley Temple (as Corliss Archer) in Kiss and Tell

Corliss Archer: Dexter, you weren't with me tonight.
Dexter Franklin: Huh?
Corliss Archer: Well, there's no point in having Daddy tear you into little pieces. You know his temper.
Dexter Franklin: What are you going to tell him?
Corliss Archer: Oh, I'll think of something. Just remember, no matter what, you weren't with me tonight.
Dexter Franklin: I can't do it. I can't let you take the rap.
Corliss Archer: Oh, I'll figure out a story.
Dexter Franklin: When?
Corliss Archer: Oh, I don't know. Give me a minute to think! Oh, my mind's an absolute blank.
Dexter Franklin: If it isn't a blank now, it will be when your old man gets through with you.
Corliss Archer: Dexter! Not when he gets through, before he starts.
Dexter Franklin: Huh?
Corliss Archer: My mind's a blank. I can't remember anything. I've got amnesia, like in the movie.
Dexter Franklin: It might work.
Corliss Archer: Oh, it's gotta work. But Dexter, you must remember, no matter what happens, no matter what I say or do, you weren't with me tonight!
Dexter Franklin: I weren't with you tonight.
Corliss Archer: Wish me luck.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in A Kiss for Corliss

Corliss Archer: Dexter, you've got to take an oath in blood not to breathe a word if I tell you the truth.
Dexter Franklin: Okay, I swear -
[hits his head on a tree branch]
Dexter Franklin: Ow!
Corliss Archer: You can take it sitting down.
Dexter Franklin: All right. I swear in blood. Look, here's blood on my chin. I just shaved.
Corliss Archer: Well, in the first place, Mildred and Lenny are married.
Dexter Franklin: What! Married!
[Corliss shushes him]
Dexter Franklin: Holy cow.
Corliss Archer: And in the second place, Mildred's gonna have a baby.
Dexter Franklin: She is?
Corliss Archer: But her parents and my parents don't dream they're married, so of course they can't know she's gonna have a baby. See? I'm the only one who knows.
Dexter Franklin: Well, go on.
Corliss Archer: Well, I've been going with Mildred to see her doctor, Dr. Fabling in the Professional Building.
Dexter Franklin: And then what?
Corliss Archer: And evidently, someone saw me coming out of his office, and must have phoned Mrs. Pringle, and well, she came tearing over here, and now everybody seems to have jumped to the conclusion that I'm going to have the baby.
Dexter Franklin: [laughing] Oh, boy! You *are* in a jam!
Corliss Archer: Well, for a while, everybody thought Jimmy was to blame, and Daddy was just calling the C.O. to have him executed.
Dexter Franklin: Gee, whiz.
Corliss Archer: Yes. Then - then Daddy was just demanding to know who it was, and then you came in, and for some reason, they all seem to think it's you!
Dexter Franklin: What? No wonder your father tried to kill me! Holy cow! I'm a dead duck!
Corliss Archer: Dexter, would you mind not denying it for a little while? I've got to have time to think.


--Shirley Temple (as Corliss Archer) in Kiss and Tell

Corliss Archer: Were you treating Betty Campbell to a coke? That frizzed out blonde?
Dexter Franklin: I was - well, we just happend to meet. I mean, gee, well, well as a matter of fact, it was a root beer.
Corliss Archer: Dexter Franklin, kindly leave this property at once.
Dexter Franklin: Well, holy cow, I tell you -
Corliss Archer: If there is one thing I will not stand for, it's fragrant infidelity!
Mildred Pringle: The word is flagrant, Corliss.
Corliss Archer: Well, what did I say?
Dexter Franklin: You said fragrant.
Corliss Archer: Well, I meant it. Your behavior stinks! Now get out!


--Shirley Temple (as Corliss Archer) in Kiss and Tell