Francis Lederer credited as playing...
Karel Novak
- Karel Novak: [Enthusiastically] Smell the river!
- Sylvia Dennis: [Sarcastically] You take another deep breath like that, and you'll kill yourself.
- Karel Novak: [Rapturously] Oh, America!
- Sylvia Dennis: The way you say America it sounds like you thought it were Heaven.
- Karel Novak: It might be.
- Sylvia Dennis: Not my idea of Heaven. Too much noise and dirt and worry about eating.
- Karel Novak: This house is so elegant. You have carpet, really.
- Sylvia Dennis: Yes, and cockroaches, too.
- Karel Novak: Cockroaches! Isn't it wonderful.
- Karel Novak: Do you mind if I say something?
- Sylvia Dennis: Not at all.
- Karel Novak: Well, I wanted to say that I think you are the loveliest young lady I've ever - I mean, I wanted to say that you are very beautiful, I beg your pardon, my English...
- Sylvia Dennis: Oh, your English is swell.
- Sylvia Dennis: How do you like America?
- Karel Novak: America? Oh, she is wonderful. So beautiful. So big. So friendly. And so warm.
- Sylvia Dennis: Say, who are you talking about?
- Karel Novak: America! Your country.
- Karel Novak: I'm a very good farmer. I went to farming school.
- Sylvia Dennis: Oh, I suppose you're going to start plowing up 42nd Street and sowing it with wild oats.
- Karel Novak: Sorry, I don't understand.
- Sylvia Dennis: Oh, I gotcha. You're one of them foreigners who learn to speak English but don't know it when you hear it.
- Karel Novak: I am a farmer.
- Sylvia Dennis: A farmer - Oh, now I know why you love us. The AAA's been paying you $14 an acre not to grow anything.
- Karel Novak: Do you know how many people want to come to this country of yours? For millions it is the land of dreams and hopes of achievement and happiness.
- Karel Novak: I guess this is the kind of a fellow I am. I remember always only the good things. Yeah, today was a little bit tough. I, I'm ashamed to admit it now; but, this afternoon I was almost desperate. I didn't know what to do. Where to get something to eat or where to sleep. But that's America, something good always turns up. I have met you and you have helped me. Oh, I can't tell you what I feel. I will be grateful to you all my life and I pay you back. Oh, I will work hard. I know everything will come out right.
- Frank Dennis: Don't let that worry you. I made it up.
- Karel Novak: Made what up?
- Frank Dennis: About Sylvia and the million guys.
- Karel Novak: You did?
- Frank Dennis: Of course. A million guys! I bet she hasn't even got a hundred.
- Karel Novak: Everybody looks so happy here. They all smile and look so rich and busy.
- Sylvia Dennis: We all try look rich and busy whether we are or not.
- Karel Novak: But tell me, uh, why do they worry?
- Sylvia Dennis: Why not? We've had a Depression. Everybody scrambling for enough to live on, to pay their rent, buy shoes for their kids, and pay their doctor bills. And maybe see a show occasionally. If most people grin it's because they don't dare not to.
- Karel Novak: But the ones I've seen today they've got so much. Automobiles, good clothes, beautiful houses to sleep in. And they're not hungry, they should be happy.
- Sylvia Dennis: There's more to life than eating and sleeping.
- Karel Novak: Oh, yes, there is, but here in America there's the chance for everyone to get it. Here everybody can get ahead and climb to the height he dreams of. There's opportunity here!
- Karel Novak: Don't let us talk anymore about who's the head of the house. Frank and I are head of the house we come home for dinner every night and complain about how you cook.
- Sylvia Dennis: But I'm good cook.
- Karel Novak: Never mind. We're head of the house, we complain anyway.
- Karel Novak: The taxi company hires me to drive. Say, I get a good salary and maybe if I drive slow with old ladies and fast with the young ones I make plenty of money from the passenger.
- Sylvia Dennis: I'm awfully happy for you, Karel. I wish I had some good news for you.
- Karel Novak: Why, this is enough good news for one day.
- Sylvia Dennis: Mine's bad news. The show's closed.
- Karel Novak: Well, that's fine, I'm glad.
- Sylvia Dennis: You're glad?
- Karel Novak: Yes. Because now I'm the man of the house and not you. Now, listen, Sylvia, I make plenty of money Frank makes some money too, we get along fine and you have a rest from your dancing, huh?
- Sylvia Dennis: Aw, you're sweet.
- Sylvia Dennis: What do you think I went into show business for?
- Karel Novak: I thought that you wanted to get famous.
- Sylvia Dennis: Oh, that was only one reason. The other was so I could contact some of those rich stage-door Johnnies that hand out diamond bracelets and orchids.
- Karel Novak: A girl that would marry a man just for money...
- Sylvia Dennis: Shows a good common sense and a healthy business instinct.
- Karel Novak: The only millionaire you're going to marry is me!
- Sylvia Dennis: Why, Karel, you're turning caveman on me?
- Karel Novak: Yes, sir!
- [kiss]
- Karel Novak: How many millionaires did you contact so far?'
- Sylvia Dennis: None. I never even got an orchid. Best I could do was to get a masher from a Kansas City undertaker. But I haven't given up.