Connie

"You listen to me, you little twerp! Just one more thing from you! Just one, and I'll guaranty you'll be sorry, young lady! Do you understand me? I'll have you so scared that you'll want to pee in your pants! You'll crawl on the floor begging me for mercy! So don't push me!!! You got it!?!"

- Connie Connie is the main antagonist of Disney's 1985 live-action film The Journey of Natty Gann. She is Natty's cruel guardian and the shallow and insensitive innkeeper of the roominghouse.

She was portrayed by Lainie Kazan.

Role
Unable to find Natty before the bus leaves, her father, Sol leaves her a letter promising to send her the fare to join him as soon as he has earned it. Meanwhile he makes arrangements with Connie, so Natty can stay on under Connie's temporary supervision.

After overhearing Connie reporting her as an abandoned child, Natty runs away to find her father on her own, embarking on a cross-country journey riding the rails along with other penniless travelers and hoboes. Along the way she saves a wolfdog from a dog fighting ring. In return the dog, whom she calls Wolf, becomes her friend and protector in her attempt to return to her father. She has a brief, innocent romance with another young traveler, Harry, and encounters various obstacles that test her courage, perseverance, and ingenuity, such as being falsely accused of cattle rustling and remanded to a juvenile facility.

When Natty's father calls Connie, she tells him Natty is gone. In a later phone call he is grieved to learn that Natty's wallet was found underneath a derailed freight train - unbeknownst to him, she lived through the crash.