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Merry Wives of Reno (1934)

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Merry Wives of Reno

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  • Lois: Drunk again!
  • Tom: Hooray! So am I! Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
  • Tom: What's that got to do with me? I don't go around tunin' lady's pianos.
  • Tom: Somebody should have shot me the day I married you.
  • Lois: You wouldn't have felt it. You were too drunk.
  • Tom: Where do you think you're going?
  • Frank: I'm going to pieces!
  • Colonel Fitch: Don't forget - any time after half past eight. Now, don't be late.
  • Lois: If you pardon the question, late to what?
  • Colonel Fitch: Party! Mrs. Fitch and I are giving a party.
  • Madge: Oh, is your wife entertaining?
  • Colonel Fitch: Well, not very; but, I'm used to it now.
  • Madge: In the hotel.
  • Lois: I guess they're used to women screamin' around here.
  • Madge: [Madge and Lois get in bed together] What was that?
  • Lois: I don't know.
  • Madge: Aw! There's somebody in this bed!
  • Colonel Fitch: [pulls down the covers, sees Madge and Lois laying beside him] Shall I - sleep in the middle?
  • Telephone Operator: What a husband! I can't stand a man that doesn't trust me. Can you imagine him putting a mousetrap in his money pocket?
  • Telephone Operator II: Say, that husband of mine is no bargain either. I don't mind the guy talking in his sleep, but when he just lies there and smiles!
  • Frank: Really like it, Sweet?
  • Madge: I love it, darling! And I love you more. And more and more all the time.
  • Frank: Show me how much.
  • Madge: All right, I will! I'll show you right now.
  • Tom: Now, listen, little snookie-wookie, I don't want to engage in any brawls.
  • Tom: All right, little snookie-wookie, now that you've ordered that fur coat, I suppose I'll have to pay for it. But, that twenty-five hundred dollars is liable to drive me right into the bankruptcy court.
  • Lois: Well, if you don't pay for it, they'll drive you right into the morgue.
  • Bunny: Sit down. It's very cozy here, don't you think?
  • Frank: It doesn't look like the ideal place for us to get down to business.
  • Bunny: I wouldn't say that. Make yourself comfortable.
  • Frank: Of course, we have many nice models in small boats.
  • Bunny: Smaller what?
  • Frank: Boats!
  • Bunny: I hate boats.
  • Frank: But, you phoned our manager?
  • Bunny: Oh, so I did. Oh, well, you see, I happen to be walking up Park Avenue this morning and I looked in your show window. Well, you were so attractive that I asked the manager to send you up to arrange for a demonstration.
  • Frank: Mrs. Fitch, I'm afraid you'll have to get someone else to give you the demonstration. I happen to be a married man...
  • Bunny: Oh and I happen to be a married woman. So, I'll forgive you if you forgive me.
  • Bunny: If the demonstration proves satisfactory, I'd be very likely to let you sell me a boat. In fact, I think you could sell me almost anything.
  • Frank: Are you really interested in a boat, Mrs. Fitch?
  • Bunny: Well, I could be. Tonight I haven't much sales resistance.
  • Lois: You bald-headed baboon!
  • Tom: I took it to the cleaners to get it cleaned.
  • Lois: Which cleaners?
  • Tom: Huh? Oh, the one around the corner - the cleaning shop and laundry.
  • Lois: You mean to say they're open at this hour? Ten o'clock at night!
  • Tom: Those Chinamen work all the time.
  • Lois: The place on the corner happens to be a French cleaning shop.
  • Tom: Huh? The proprietor is from French Indo-China!
  • First Beautician: The funny part is, her husband still thinks the guy was fixing her radio.
  • Second Beautician: They would start that vibrator just when the story was getting hot.
  • Colonel Fitch: Sorry to keep you waiting but my wife was taking a bath.
  • Lois: [to drunk Tom wearing an feathered Indian Chief's headdress] Get back in your tepees and cut out the war whoops. I want to sleep.
  • Hotel Party Guest: Look! It's gonna be a pajama party! Whoopee!
  • [starts undressing]
  • Tom: Good morning.
  • Lois: It may be good to you; but, my mouth feels like a Chinese family just moved out.
  • Tom: That, like last night, was slow poison.
  • Lois: Well, I'm in no hurry.
  • Tom: Any body that can handle my wife, like I have for 19 years, can handle any woman! Say, what I do to her!
  • Colonel Fitch: I'm off duty at six every night and available as an escort anytime after that. I play the piano, croon, dance well, know all the roadhouses around here and have both a tuxedo and a tail coat. I'll be back.
  • [exits]
  • Telephone Operator II: [to Madge] He must be quite a handy man around here.
  • Al: I had just finished my trapping for the season and I was up Juneau way looking over some of my gold mines - for quite a spell. When I got home I found out that my wife had been a-cheatin' on me.
  • The Trapper: I see. And you know the man?
  • Al: No. Not as well as my wife knows him!
  • Al: I've got the goods on him, all right. He's an Eskimo.
  • The Trapper: Aw, something new, at least. A hot Eskimo.
  • Al: Oh, yes. It gets quite warm in Alaska at times.
  • Al: You know, it kind of riles a feller's pride when he finds out that his wife's been cheatin' on him with an Eskimo. You know, I wouldn't mind it so much if it had been a white man or a ch-ch-ch, or a ch-ch, a three. But, I'll be derned if she's gonna get away with a Eskim-a, a Eskim-a, a - a, one of those fish peddlers from Alaska.
  • Telephone Operator: Mrs. Peabody wants to see Al again.
  • Telephone Operator II: She gets lonely every afternoon around this time.
  • Tom: You're drunk!
  • Lois: How do you know?
  • Tom: That's the first time you've kissed me in 19 years.
  • Lois: He's my little pudgy-wudgy!
  • Tom: Now, just a minute, I can explain anything - I - I mean everything!
  • Frank: I ruined both our lives, just because I happened to get a little bit blotto. I'll never do it again.
  • Lois: Now you can show people you can get just as drunk in Reno as you do in New York.
  • Tom: Maybe drunker!
  • Mrs. Dillingworth: [in her low-cut bathrobe] Oh, Al, I was just about to take a bath and the stopper in my bath tub is broken again. Do you think you could fix it?
  • Al: I can try Mrs. Dillingworth, I can try. A man can only do his best.
  • The Trapper: But, I'll be derned, if I'm gonna let her get away with an Eskima-ma, an Eskima-ma, a, one of them caviar diggers from Alaska!
  • Lois: You worthless no good liar! You big - rutabaga!
  • Derwent: She did. She didn't. Who did? Where did? Why? Where? She's up. She's down. She's away!
  • Colonel Fitch: Did you knock?
  • Bunny: So! This is why you moved out of our apartment, huh! So you could have pajama parties with women at three o'clock in the morning.
  • Colonel Fitch: Well, my watch was stopped and I didn't know what time it was.
  • Frank: Where's my wife?
  • Tom: Where's my wife?
  • Colonel Fitch: Oh, have you mislaid your wives?
  • Bunny: You old reprobate! I'm going to tell you exactly what I think of you.
  • Colonel Fitch: Oh, don't bother. I already know.
  • Bunny: There's no excuse for this, you know. You're old enough to know better. I'm not only ashamed of you, I'm disappointed and disgusted. One woman isn't enough for you - you have to have two! Well, you flatter yourself! If those women knew you as well as I did, they wouldn't be wasting their time here.
  • Colonel Fitch: Well, I do much better with strangers.
  • Bunny: You both looked so respectable. Not at all the type of women who go having pajama parties with a married man!
  • Tom: All right, little snookie-wookie. Now that you've ordered that fur coat, I, I suppose I'll have to pay for it, but that, that 25 hundred dollars is liable to drive me right into the bankruptcy court!
  • Lois: Well, if you don't pay for it they'll drive you right into the morgue!
  • Tom: 25 hundred dollars is just the initial cost. You've got to add to that the price of my breakfast every morning at Child's.
  • Lois: What's the matter with the breakfast *I* get you?
  • Tom: Well, the 19 years I've been married to you, I never had a chance to find out whether you can cook or not. You've always started a quarrel before I got started eatin'.
  • Tom: Snookie-wookie?
  • Lois: What?
  • Tom: Would you divorce me for fifty dollars a week alimony?
  • Lois: I will for a hundred and fifty.
  • Tom: Ohh, make it seventy-five.
  • Lois: You're pretty low, but you're not in the bargain basement.
  • Tom: Well, I gotta live too.
  • Lois: *Why?*
  • Tom: [drunkenly] My friend, did you ever beat a hasty retreat through an open winda?
  • Proprietor of Jim's Diner: You see this?
  • [points to a large scar on his forehead]
  • Proprietor of Jim's Diner: I didn't even have time to *open* the window.
  • Tom: That's nuthin'. One night in Great Neck, her husband dropped in outta the clear sky, and I dropped out of the 2nd story winda. I've had flat feet ever since.
  • [they laugh]
  • Lois: [to Bunny Fitch] So you're the dame my husband's been running around with. I got a notion to scratch my initials all over your face.
  • [Bunny gasps, her hand goes to her cheek]

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