Women in the Wind (1939)

Maxie Rosenbloom: Stuffy McInnes

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [a biplane roars into the frame. Fade to the front page of the fictional New York Recorder: "ACE BOREMAN DUE SOON, CIRCLING THE WORLD WITHIN EIGHTY HOURS; FLYER NEARS NEW YORK; RECORD WELL IN HAND; SHIP STILL GOES WELL; Ace Boreman's world-circling airplane, Polly, passed over the liner Normandie at 8:00 o'clock..." Closeup on Ace and Stuffy in the cockpit, cut to a view of the southern tip of Manhattan, and back to the cockpit] 

  Ace Boreman : There she is!

  'Stuffy' McInnes : [blankly]  What "she" are you talkin' about? Don't tell me you see a dame this high up.

  Ace Boreman : [laughing]  I'm talking about New York.

  'Stuffy' McInnes : [deadpan]  Oh. Well, don't put skirts on it.

  Ace Boreman : I guess there'll only be one girl in your life, eh Stuffy?

  'Stuffy' McInnes : [puzzled]  Yeah? Who's that?

  Ace Boreman : This one: Polly.

  'Stuffy' McInnes : Polly's different. She can't talk back.

  [Polly rolls out of view as the scene fades to a ticker tape parade. Ace and Stuffy are in the back seat of an open touring car, waving at the throng, and covered with streamers and confetti] 

  Ace Boreman : I bet you never got this many cheers when you were a fighter, eh Stuffy?

  'Stuffy' McInnes : Nah, all I ever heard was the referee countin'

  Ace Boreman : And half the time you couldn't hear that.

  Ace Boreman : [Stuffy gives him a dirty look]  Wave to the free people, Stuffy.

• 'Stuffy' McInnes : ...I thought you was on the level

  [with Janet] 

  'Stuffy' McInnes : .

  Ace Boreman : On the level? Oh, you know me better than that, Stuffy. You know my motto: Feed 'em, fly 'em, and forget 'em.

  [Ace doesn't realize that Janet has overheard this exchange] 

  Ace Boreman : [Janet flies Ace to her country cottage] 

  Ace Boreman : [as they enter the front gate]  Nice place here.

  Janet Steele : Think so?

  Ace Boreman : Yeah, but I'm getting a little jealous.

  Janet Steele : Why jealous?

  Ace Boreman : I thought we were gonna be alone, and I find a flock of chickens to keep us company. Tell me, whaddya do with 'em, sweet?

  Janet Steele : I've got a system all my own.

  Ace Boreman : Oh, you have, huh?

  Janet Steele : Mmm, hmm. I feed 'em, fry 'em, and forget 'em!