Three Wise Girls (1931)

Marie Prevost: Dot

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• Dot : You know, addressing envelopes ain't as tough as it's cracked up to be.

  Cassie Barnes : No?

  Dot : No! There's a lot of money in it. I doped the whole thing out a while ago. At a dollar and a half a thousand, if I sell an envelope to everybody in the United States, I'd make a hundred and fifty thousand dollars!

  Cassie Barnes : That's swell. Have you figured out how long it's going to take you to do that?

  Dot : Oh, um... About two-hundred and fifty years.

  Cassie Barnes : I had no idea there was such a future in it.

• Dot : Well what are you doing home?

  Cassie Barnes : Job number three is now a thing of the past.

  Dot : Yeah? What happened?

  Cassie Barnes : Oh, the Manager had a lot of brand new ideas. He tried to take my waist measurement.

  Dot : Oh, I know. Wanted to see if you were gaining any weight, huh?

  Cassie Barnes : Yeah.

• Dot : Say, Cass, you don't happen to know of a good man layin' around loose, do ya? A plumber or something? I'd grab the first one that came along so - I - wouldn't - have - to - type - these - silly - stupid - things!

  Cassie Barnes : Oh, you're always yelping about men, Dot!

  Dot : Yeah, well that's my trouble. All I do is yelp. But, I never can get my clutches on one.

  Cassie Barnes : Oh, they give me a pain!

• Cassie Barnes : Oh, I met a new breed this morning.

  Dot : Yeah, what's he like?

  Cassie Barnes : Rich, handsome, - and a sap! He was in the store when I had the scrap this morning. Brought me home in his car.

  Dot : What happened? Did he make a pass at you?

  Cassie Barnes : No, he didn't even try to date me up! The conceded fool!

  Dot : Well, what are you kicking about? Isn't that what you want?

  Cassie Barnes : Yeah, but a man doesn't have to be insulting, does he?

• Cassie Barnes : Well, goodbye slave. I'm gonna have my lunch in style!

  Dot : Yeah and I hope you choke!

• Dot : I was gonna throw this stuff out - but, you might as well eat it. Aw, there's one of the finest little weenies that ever graced a paper plate. It's a little shriveled from old age. But, of course, you can't have everything. And the baloney - well, its just baloney.

• Dot : Listen, if he'll take you, grab him while the grabbin's good! And in a little while, maybe he'll find what a heel he's been and marry you anyway. And if he don't, what's the odds? You'll have a beautiful apartment, plenty of clothes and pot full of Do-Re-Mi.

• Gladys Kane : Oh, Cassie, don't get in my class.

  Dot : Why shouldn't she get in your class? What's wrong with your class? Say you're a great one to be talkin' and you living in the lap of luxury.

  Gladys Kane : Listen, Dot, I'd scrub floors if I could start all over again.

  Dot : Awww! That's a lot of plain, ordinary hooey! And in the meantime you're living on Park Avenue, have a car of your own, and you eat at the Ritz. Well, all I can say is you're havin' a swell time!

• Dot : Say, the trouble with you is, you've forgotten how awful it is to live in a dump like this. You don't know what it means to have to cut down on your food, so you can scrap together the rent or else old horse-face downstairs will throw you out on your what's-it. Say, listen, did you ever have to eat liverwurst seven days a week, cause you couldn't afford anything else? Well, try it sometime, you'll be nuts about it!

  Gladys Kane : You've got to hang on to your self respect, Dot. And that's important.

  Dot : Awww, what's your self respect when your hungry? It won't get you a porterhouse, will it?

• Gladys Kane : So long, Dot.

  Dot : Goodbye.

  Gladys Kane : Look me up sometime, I'll show you life among the rich and miserable.

  Dot : Says you!

• Cassie Barnes : I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing, Dot.

  Dot : Awww, nertz! If you think it's right, it's right! That's the only way to look at it.