Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell: Florence

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• Florence : Listen, Joan Gale's body was swiped from the morgue, have you ever heard of such a thing as a death mask?

  Jim : I used to be married to one.

  Florence : Then it came to life and divorced you, I know all about that.

• Winton : I've only known you twenty-four hours, but I'm in love with you.

  Florence : Doesn't usually take that long.

• Florence : [describing the disfigured man's appearance]  And that face, it was like an African war mask.

  Detective : You mean he was colored?

  Florence : I don't know what he was, but he made Frankenstein look like a lily.

• Florence : I'd rather die with an athletic heart from shaking cocktails and bankers, than expire in a pan of dirty dish water.

  Charlotte Duncan : Would you?

  Florence : He can look like a gorilla and have no manners of a niggeroidi, but he's got to have dough - plenty of dough.

• Florence : All right, then you can go to some nice, warm place, and I don't mean California.

• Florence : Hello, sweetheart. How's your sex life?

• Charlotte Duncan : Ready, Florence?

  Florence : Well, you two will have to struggle along without me, I've got a heavy date. No fouling in the clinches...

• Florence : [after Charlotte hangs up the phone after talking to Ralph]  Who was that? Penny Ante?

  Charlotte Duncan : Mmm-hmm, why?.

  Florence : Just wondering, did you invite him to lunch or did he invite you?

  Charlotte Duncan : Well I don't want to offend you, but, frankly, that's none of your business. I don't interfere in any of your affairs.

  Florence : I don't have any affairs.

  [sits up and shouts] 

  Florence : What do you mean?

  Charlotte Duncan : I don't think you could have a real affair, I don't think you could care for anyone.

  Florence : Oh please, I've been in love so many times my heart's calloused, but I never hit one with dough.

• Florence : [talking about a case]  Can I handle this my way?

  Jim : You cannot, I'm still editor of this newspaper.

  Florence : Fine, you said I was fired... well, I quit, you give the assignment to somebody else.

  Jim : Wait a minute, come here.

  Florence : [crying]  No, I'm through.

  Jim : Come here, sob sister, all right, go ahead, do it your own way.

• Florence : As I live and breathe and wear spats, the prince.

  Jim : You been doing experiments with scotch and soda again?

  Florence : Where'd you get that news item, from a little bird?

  Jim : Yeah, have a pleasant vacation?

  Florence : Charming, more delightful people crippled.

• Florence : Hello, light of my life.

  Jim : Well, well, Prussic Acid.

• Florence : I'm fired.

  Police Captain : No kidding.

  Florence : I gotta make news if I have to bite a dog.

• Florence : How do you do? I'm from the Express.

  Winton : Yeah? I don't want to talk to you. I know you people. You'll try to crucify me for something I didn't do. Well I warn you, anything you print about me, you got to prove.

  Florence : C'mom ol' man. You know you're innocent until proven guilty.

  Winton : Yeah sure. That's fine. But while I'm proving my innocence, you people will uncover every petty kid trick I ever did. You'll write editorials about every cocktail I ever drank. Anything that any sane normal person might have done will have a sinister meaning if I did it.

• Charlotte Duncan : I can just see it now, you telling the landlady you didn't have the rent, but Ralph was awfully sweet.

  Charlotte Duncan : It just so happens that the poor people are happier.

  Florence : Then marry Ralph, you'll be the happiest couple in the world.

  Charlotte Duncan : I don't know what you're going on about, I don't see any millionaires running after you.

  Florence : Met one last night, all the money this side of Peoria.

  Charlotte Duncan : Who?

  Florence : George Winton of the Park Avenue Wintons.

• Florence : [to her boss]  I'm gonna make you eat dirt, you soap bubble, I'm gonna make you beg for somebody to help you let go. You may mean the world to your mother but you're a...

  [walks away without finishing her sentence] 

• Winton : [to Florence]  Will you marry me?

  Florence : How much money have you got?

  Winton : [laughing]  Heaven knows, a lot.

  Florence : [smiling]  Well that being the case, I'll take it up with the board of directors.

• Florence : I'm gonna make you eat dirt, you soap bubble.

• Jim : You're a sure bet to place in the bread line. There's no room on this rag for the purely ornamental. You're easy on the eyes and pretty conceited about it.

  Florence : Is mama's dumpling getting tough?

  Jim : I'm through clowning, Florence. You're all washed up. Get out.

  Florence : What do you mean, you poor ham? It's New Years!

• Florence : I've got a story, but I'm not gonna tell you what it is. Every time I tell you anything, it goes haywire.

  Jim : What do you mean, haywire? You start out after murderers and bring back three-for-a-dime bootleggers. You start out to solve murder mysteries and break up crap games. You're stupendous. I'm for you. You're wonderful.

  Florence : Oh! You're always razzing everything I do, but this is one time I'm in.

• Police Captain : Can you give me a description of this person you saw?

  Florence : So, not a very good one, I guess. But it wasn't like anything human. It hobbled and swayed like a monkey. And the face from the glimpse I got of it... it was like an African wall mask.

  Police Captain : You mean he was colored?

  Florence : I don't know what he was, but he made Frankenstein look like a lily.