No Time for Comedy (1940)

Allyn Joslyn: Morgan Carrell

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Quotes 

• Clementine, Actress in Show : I thought you was in Hollywood.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : I'm, ah, out on parole.

• Morgan Carrell, the Director : Clementine, are you sitting on my hat?

  Clementine, Actress in Show : [gets up to look]  So I am. I completely covered it. Well, its a small hat.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : A sombrero would have met the same fate.

• Morgan Carrell, the Director : Poor Gay, he was so sure he had a hit. He has a curtain speech all prepared. I never thought I'd see the day when I felt sorry for a playwright.

  Philo Swift : Two acts are enough for me. I don't see why we should stick around for a third.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : Well, the third might be a little better, I don't know. At least it's understandable. It's a plea for the human race against dictatorship.

  Philo Swift : Well, that doesn't interest me either. I'm afraid Esterbrook sees the world not as it is, but as he would like it to be actually. Gay's indignation is sentimental, romantic, infantile.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : [announcement for Third act is heard]  Well, no time to argue now. I directed this play and I've got to sit through it. And the punishment fits the crime.

• Morgan Carrell, the Director : Well, no time to argue now. I directed this play and I've got to sit through it. And the punishment fits the crime.

• Morgan Carrell, the Director : [During intermission of Gaylord's dramatic play]  Pretty awful, isn't it?

  Philo Swift : Well, it wouldn't be so bad if people didn't laugh so much. It keeps waking me up.

• Clementine, Actress in Show : I saw your last picture, Mr. Carrell.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : Yes?

  Clementine, Actress in Show : Oh, yeah.

  Morgan Carrell, the Director : What'd ya think?

  Clementine, Actress in Show : [sighs]  yeah.