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Mrs. Violet Venable (Character)
from Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

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Violet Venable

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  1. "Great Performances"
        - Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) TV episode, Played by Maggie Smith (as Violet Venable)

  2. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Played by Katharine Hepburn

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From Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Dr. Cukrowicz: Mrs. Venable, loving your neice as you do, you must know there's great risk in this operation. Whenever you enter the brain with a foreign object...
Mrs. Venable: Yes.
Dr. Cukrowicz: Even a needle thin knife.
Mrs. Venable: Yes.
Dr. Cukrowicz: In the hands of the most skilled surgeon...
Mrs. Venable: Yes, yes.
Dr. Cukrowicz: There is a great deal of risk.
Mrs. Venable: But it does pacify them, I've read that, it quiets them down. It suddenly makes them peaceful.
Dr. Cukrowicz: Yes that that it does do, but...
Mrs. Venable: But what?
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