Dames (1934)

Joan Blondell: Mabel

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Quotes 

• Mabel : I'd cry but I haven't got a handkerchief.

• Mabel : Beat it, Buttercup.

• Mabel : I've got 17 cents and the clothes I stand in, but there's life in the old girl yet.

• Horace P. Hemingway : [Finding Mabel in his train compartment]  Y-You get out of here!

  Mabel : Why? I don't snore.

  Horace P. Hemingway : S-S-Snore?

  [He hurries out of the compartment. Mabel settles back into the bed] 

• Mabel : I'll make a scandal that'll shake this rattler right off its tracks.

• Mabel : You four-flushing chiseler! This guy sends me out in a turkey show that folds up like an old accordion. He leaves me holding the bag, stranded, broke in Troy. Have you ever been stranded in Troy?

• Mabel : Look out, Uncle Tom Hemingway, here comes Mabel Legree a-crackin' her whip.

• Mabel : The show's on and I'm in. All you've got to do is get me a personal, private interview with Horace P. Hemingway.

  Jimmy Higgens : Is that all you need?

  Mabel : I'll walk out of there with enough money to finance "Ben-Hur" with solid-gold horses.

  Jimmy Higgens : Let's shake on it.

  Mabel : I'll raise you one. We'll kiss on it!

• Mabel : Gee, that's swell, Jimmy.

• Mabel : You're not related to Horace P. Hemingway?

  Barbara Hemingway : He's my father.

  Mabel : The sausage casing Hemingways?

  Barbara Hemingway : Yes, why?

  Mabel : Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. I just seemed to see a meal ticket coming over the horizon.

• Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, you dreadful woman! How did you get in my room?

  Mabel : Hello, Horace.

  Horace P. Hemingway : You - you - you can't smoke in here.

  Mabel : I am smoking.

• Mabel : Look, honey. We've played this scene before on the train. We both know exactly how it goes. Now please don't waste any time. Give.

• Mabel : I'll tell him about our purple night. That we were train roommates. I'll show him your card.

  Horace P. Hemingway : How - how much did you say you'd take?

  Mabel : Twenty-five thousand.

  Horace P. Hemingway : You said twenty the first time.

  Mabel : Why didn't you pay me the first time?

• Horace P. Hemingway : What are you going to do?

  Mabel : What are you going to do, Horace?

  Horace P. Hemingway : Don't! Don't call me by my first name.

  Mabel : Okay, P. P's your second name, isn't it?

  Horace P. Hemingway : P stands for Peter.

  Mabel : All right, Pete.

• Mabel : [singing]  There is something about your pajamas, That enthralls me with sweet ecstasy...

• Mabel : [singing]  Though you may be old fashioned, You're my secret passion, So, come up and see me sometime...