Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Allen Jenkins: Pete

Quotes 

• Pete : Well, I've put all the kiddies east of the Mississippi to bed. How's rehearsal?

  Peggy Cornell : Oh awful. Some yokel stood outside the rehearsal hall making and stared at me until I nearly broke me up. What have you got a summons?

  Pete : No, fan mail.

  Peggy Cornell : Oh. Three of them. That's two more than last week! Your public are growing up and learning to write.

  Pete : Listen to this: Dear Uncle Pete. I am well. How are you? I hear you on the radio every night. Great stuff for a he man poet... Have you heard my last poem, Peggy?

  Peggy Cornell : I sure hope so.

  Pete : Frankie Wallace was a pug. He laid his opponents out like a rug. Until one day... Wait a minute! You haven't heard the last of it.

  Peggy Cornell : Well. You've got me cornered.

  Pete : Frankie Wallace was a pug. He laid his opponents out like a rug...

• Pete : How'd you do on the coast, Rush?

  Rush Blake : Colossal, colossal! Say listen, I could of managed any of 'em. Cagney, Robinson, Blondell - they all wanted me! A lot of dough in the movie racket. Aw, but radio is my first love.

• Pete : They laughed at me! They laughed at my poetry. So, what do I do? I write a lyric. Harry Warren sees it and writes the music. Al Dubin touches up the words. And now Witmark's gonna publish it! And who's laughin' now?

• Rush Blake : [after a shower, draped in a towel]  Let's get goin' boys.

  Pete : Hey! Where are you goin'? To a nudist picnic?

  Rush Blake : Oh, grab a cab. I'll be right with you.

• Pete : How are you fixed for asparagus?

  Buddy Clayton : What? Oh, I get along all right.

  Pete : Well, if you get to need a couple of bucks, let me know.