Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Alice Brady: Mrs. Prentiss

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• Mrs. Prentiss : Gentlemen, the show is off. I can't afford it!

  Nicolai Nicoleff : [histrionically]  Madam, with those few words, you have broken my heart.

  Schultz : I don't feel so good myself.

• Mrs. Prentiss : You want what?

  Ann Prentiss : Some decent clothes. Well, look at me. Is it any wonder that nobody ever talks to me or notices me?

  Mrs. Prentiss : Well, who do you want to notice you?

  Ann Prentiss : Men and boys. I want to have some fun.

• Humbolt Prentiss : You know that I'm not good at fractions.

  Mrs. Prentiss : No, but, I notice you're very good at figures.

  Humbolt Prentiss : Yes, you might say that I'm a specialist.

• Ann Prentiss : The first thing I'm going to do is get some decent clothes. I'm sick and tired of looking like Little Orphan Annie.

  Mrs. Prentiss : What's the matter with your clothes? Your dresses are always trim and neat.

  Ann Prentiss : Yes, like burlap bags.

• Mrs. Prentiss : That's the last straw! You bad, wicked, naughty boy. Shame on you! Shame on you!

• Mrs. Prentiss : Mosley, I must speak to you. I want you to keep the total receipts, $7,500. I know I can trust you, Mosley.

  T. Mosley Thorpe : I'm really touched by this confidence.

  Mrs. Prentiss : I'm glad you're touched.

• Mrs. Prentiss : Sold out! $7,500! More money than I've ever taken in before. I do hope the grounds are well-policed, because I'm a little uneasy carrying so much money around with me.

  Betty Hawes : Yeah? Well, let me hold it for you. Now, no thief would never suspect poor little me of all that cash.

  Louis Lamson : Well, let me put it in the hotel safe.

  Schultz : A safe to a burglar is like a bottle to a corkscrew. Let me hide the cash. I got on a money belt. I'll put it right here, next to my heart.

• Mrs. Prentiss : Remember, everything's in the sacred cause of milk.

• Nicoleff : Ah, Madam is glorious. Nicoleff lives again!

  Mrs. Prentiss : Stop chewing on my fingers!

• Mrs. Prentiss : I'll have you run out of the hotel. I'll have you run out of the state. You male - gold digger!

• Mrs. Prentiss : Simply sweep her off her feet!

  T. Mosley Thorpe : Well, don't you think that's a trifle undignified?

  Mrs. Prentiss : Stop quibbling, Mosley.

• Mrs. Prentiss : You contemptible coward. Engaged to my daughter and lollygagging around with a public stenographer.

  T. Mosley Thorpe : Can I be blamed because I can't typewrite - and must dictate?

  Mrs. Prentiss : Oh! So you were dictating, were you?

  T. Mosley Thorpe : Yes, I was dictating.

• Mrs. Prentiss : You menace to innocent women! You viper!

• Mrs. Prentiss : I know everything that's going on around here.

  T. Mosley Thorpe : I hope you're not provoked at me.

  Mrs. Prentiss : No, you've been merely weak and vacillating.

• Mrs. Prentiss : I have a real man in the family. I shall have Humbolt give you a good thrashing.

  T. Mosley Thorpe : Don't forget I used to be pretty good with the gloves myself. See?

  Mrs. Prentiss : I shall forbid Humbolt to use gloves when he thrashes you.

• Mrs. Prentiss : You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

  Dick Curtis : I haven't got time. I'm too happy.

• Nicoleff : This has been the most pleasant engagement of my career. May I present to you a tiny token of my esteem?

  Mrs. Prentiss : Well, what is it?

  Nicoleff : A priceless solid silver fruit dish, given to me by the Grand Duke Alexis, after seeing my production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" with an all-Eskimo cast.

• Mrs. Prentiss : That awful, dreadful show! That's been the cause of all my troubles!