Dancing Lady (1933)
Franchot Tone: Tod Newton
Quotes
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Tod Newton : Do you like gardenias?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I love 'em!
Tod Newton : I could take you in my yacht to Tahiti where they grow wild, millions of 'em.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Hoping I'd go wild too, huh?
Tod Newton : It might do you a world of good, Janie.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Tod, dance me towards the bedroom, will you?
Tod Newton : Hmmm...
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I want to get my coat. I'm going home.
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[first lines]
Girl with Tod : I don't like the looks of this place, Tod.
Tod Newton : Ah, come on. You'll get a lot of laughs.
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Girl with Tod : The judge will give you 15 years for what you're thinking.
Tod Newton : It'd be worth it.
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Tod Newton : You think you're a dancer, huh? You'll never be an artist until you find out what life's about.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You ought to open up a art school for chorus girls.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I milked a cow once.
Tod Newton : What kind of a cow? Was it a Jersey or a Guernsey?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I don't know. I didn't see the license plate.
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Tod Newton : That's a swell dance! It's a little bit uncivilized, though.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Maybe that's why its so beautiful.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Not for me, Tod. I'm not thirsty.
Tod Newton : I get it. When a lady says she isn't thirsty, she means all she can drink is Champagne cocktails.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You ought to write a book about what women want.
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Tod Newton : Hello, Gallagher.
Patch Gallagher : Well, well, if it isn't the other half of the firm. Back from Havana so soon? Somebody close your show, too?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You trying to be funny, Patch? Tom's not in the show business.
Patch Gallagher : Another
[orders a drink after downing a shot]
Patch Gallagher : ... Not in the show business huh?
Tod Newton : Come on away, Janie, he's just a...
Patch Gallagher : I'm a little drunk, is that what you're trying to say. Well, drunk or sober, my hat's still off to you. There are more ways than one to close a show, and you taught me a new one.
Tod Newton : That's enough...
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Hey, wait a minute.
Patch Gallagher : What's the matter? Afraid your boyfriend'll get a poke in the jaw for throwing a hundred people out of work just so he could take you on a joy ride to Cuba?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I don't know what you're talking about,.
Patch Gallagher : No? Not much.
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Patch Gallagher : You got paid for rehearsing. Nobody else did. You didn't think Bradley gave you that, do you?
Tod Newton : Shut up, Gallagher.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Say, what is this?
Patch Gallagher : Ah, you don't savvy, eh?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : No.
Patch Gallagher : Well, maybe I oughtta speak Cuban. It's the same in any language. I suppose you don't know that your boyfriend here paid Bradley to close the show.
Tod Newton : You can settle that with me, Gallagher. Janie had nothing to do with it.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Tod, did you...
Patch Gallagher : Oh, yes, Tod did, and I'd like to take Tod over to the theater right now and feed him to the boys and girls for breakfast. They need something to eat. Well, we'll show 'em tomorrow night, and on my dough.