Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Osgood Perkins: Morty Wethered
Quotes
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Hugo : Now, you know what to do, don't you?
Genevieve Larkin : Yes.
Morty Wethered : Well, if she doesn't, she's changed a lot in the last few days.
Genevieve Larkin : Oh, it's so hard to be good under the capitalistic system.
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Morty Wethered : [trying to sell a life insurance policy to his boss, J.J. Hobart] When the captain goes over the side for the last time, life insurance takes the wheel, and brings the ship safely into port.
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Genevieve Larkin : What's Sally supposed to do? Twiddle her thumbs?
Morty Wethered : Sally can twiddle anything she wants.
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Morty Wethered : Gen, you've got to think of something, my mind is blank.
Genevieve Larkin : J.J. is likely to find that out too.
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Morty Wethered : Gen, you're a genius.
Genevieve Larkin : Just don't you forget it.
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Genevieve Larkin : Is that J.J. Hobart?
Morty Wethered : That's the guy.
Genevieve Larkin : That old fellow? Why, Morty, he's got two feet in the grave already.
Morty Wethered : Well, all we've got to do is to make him lie down in it.
Genevieve Larkin : Don't you worry. I'll have him pull the dirt in over him.
Morty Wethered : Good girl.
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Hugo : Ask him to dance. Keep him on his feet.
Morty Wethered : Get him overheated.
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Morty Wethered : I don't feel like napping just now, Miss...
Genevieve Larkin : Larkin. Genevieve Larkin.
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Morty Wethered : It says here in this paper that Stanley J. MacNeil dropped dead.
J.J. Hobart : Stan MacNeil? Why, I saw him only last week.
Morty Wethered : Well, after all, he was getting on. How old does it say he was?
Hugo : Fifty-eight.
Morty Wethered : Well, ripe old age.
Hugo : Yeah.
J.J. Hobart : What did he die of?
Hugo : Eh, overwork.