Jean Harlow credited as playing...
Lola Burns
- Lola Burns: Hey, I didn't give you that for a negligee, it's an evening wrap!
- Loretta: I know, Miss Lola, but the negligee what you give me got all tore up, night before last.
- Lola Burns: Your day off is sure brutal on your lingerie.
- Lola Burns: Get away from me, all of you! You're nothing but a pack of leeches!
- Pops: Leeches?
- Lola Burns: Yes, leeches! At least he
- [motions to Space]
- Lola Burns: was right; I don't know how I expected to bring a baby in here with an old fool for his grandfather who's half-drunk all the time!...
- Pops: After the way I've worked to handle your affairs...
- Lola Burns: Well, what about my affairs! Where are they? Why aren't my bills paid? Where does my money go? I never see any of it!
- Mac: Lola, you're exciting yourself...
- Lola Burns: Well, what are you doing about you? Don't think I don't know about your stealing and all the cuts you get from the stores! And you
- Elsie, Hanlon's Secretary: Aw, listen, Sis...
- Lola Burns: And you who never, haven't had a job to your name for three years and bringing her in here like it was a hotel for traveling salesmen! I've only stood it because it's the only home and family I've got. But I'm getting sick of it, you understand? There's only Loretta and the dogs that ever do a single thing for me. All the rest of you are just out for what you can get and I'm getting pretty tired of being a golden goose or whatever you call it!
- Space Hanlon: Atta girl, Sugar!
- Lola Burns: Don't "atta girl" me! I never want to see you again as long as I breath. You're worse than all the rest of 'em!
- [starts quoting Space]
- Lola Burns: "Stone-Age Stuff!" "Mad with Desire!" "Lovers' Brawl!" Is that the way you prove you just more than care for me? Treating me like a strip act in a burlesque show! A glamorous Bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been! Well, I'm through do you understand? With the business, with everybody! You can get another "It Girl," a "But Girl" or a "How, When and Where Girl." I'm clearing out - and you can all stay here in this half-paid-for car barn and get somebody else to pull the apple cart! I'm going where ladies and gentlemen hang their hats and get some peace and quiet... and if any of you try to interfere with me - I'll complain to the authorities!
- Lola Burns: Hey! This isn't orange juice.
- Winters: No, Miss, it-it's it-it's sauerkraut juice.
- Lola Burns: Well, take it away. It's like dipping your tongue in lox.
- Winters: But, but I'm sorry, Miss. But, there weren't any oranges.
- Lola Burns: No oranges? This is California, Man!
- Lola Burns: You hardly know me?
- Gifford Middleton: I've known you in every ripple of moonlight I've ever seen. In every symphony I've ever heard. In every perfume I've ever smelt.
- Lola Burns: How do you think I enjoy reading all that scandal that hasn't an ounce of truth in it?
- Space Hanlon: I've told you, sugar, it isn't what you like to read. It's what the public likes to read.
- Man Claiming to Be Lola's Husband: Rib? Rib? That's it! I'm Adam, you're Eve. You came from one of my ribs.
- Lola Burns: I came from Peoria.
- Lola Burns: All right, Mac, have 'em bring around my roadster.
- Mac: Your brother took the roadster to Tijuana.
- Lola Burns: Tijuana? Say, who told him that...
- Pops: I sent Junior down there to look over a crop of fillies with the idea of a possible purchase...
- Lola Burns: I know the kinda fillies he'll look over!
- Space Hanlon: Oh, Lola, honey, baby girl, you don't have to keep a stiff upper lip with me. You know - hey, listen - what's his name? That's all I wanna know! Don't tell me it's that - it's that...
- Lola Burns: Don't be silly! I don't even know his name yet.
- Space Hanlon: You don't know his name? You mean you - you know - well, holy smoke, when are you gonna find out?
- Lola Burns: If its any of your business, as soon as I adopt the baby and get a good name to suit him.
- Space Hanlon: Ohhhhh, so you're gonna adopt a baby.
- Lola Burns: So, I'm not gonna kidnap one!
- Space Hanlon: For minute there you had me thinkin' you were going in for independent production!
- Space Hanlon: What's all this - em - this - eh - tornado about you gonna kick a bassinet around the house? Huh?
- Lola Burns: You would try to be funny about it.
- Space Hanlon: Well, do you mean - you mean - it's true? A-a baby?
- Lola Burns: Yes. And this is one thing I don't need any help from you on!
- Gifford Middleton: We'll be married, dear heart, and go together to Utopia.
- Lola Burns: You mean, around the world?
- Gifford Middleton: Around the universe! To the moon! I'll put the ring of Saturn on your finger. We'll sleep on Venus. The Milky Way shall be our coverlet.
- Lola Burns: Oh, not even Norma Shearer or Helen Hayes in their nicest pictures were ever spoken to like that.
- Lola Burns: You can take your Boston's and your Bunker Hill's and your bloodline's and stuff a codfish with 'em! And then you know what you can do with the codfish!
- Jim Brogan: Hi ya, babe!
- Lola Burns: They just told me you'd come back on the lot. Gee, you look swell.
- Jim Brogan: So do you, Lola.
- Lola Burns: I was sorry to hear about your divorce.
- Jim Brogan: Oh, don't be. Maybe that's why I'm looking so good.
- Lola Burns: Jim, now what are you mad about?
- Jim Brogan: [about Hugo] Listen, will you kindly tell that glorified barber to get off my set?
- Lola Burns: He's not a barber. He speaks French and Spanish and Italian.
- Jim Brogan: I don't care if he speaks Eskimo. I don't like him. Tell him to get off.
- Lola Burns: He's got royal blood in his veins.
- Jim Brogan: I don't care if he's got a royal flush in his kidneys. Tell him to scram! I can't stand him, I tell you. Tell him to get off!
- Lola Burns: You can't talk that way about Hugo.
- Jim Brogan: Yeah? They told me you'd fallen for that gigolo, but I didn't believe it.
- Mrs. Titcomb: Oh, I just hate to go, but I think I have everything, don't you?
- Lola Burns: Oh, do stay and have luncheon, Mrs. Titcomb.
- Mrs. Titcomb: No, dear. I must dash off and start putting down the words. They're just itching at the tips of my pinkies!
- Mrs. Titcomb: Tell me, dear. You're a woman. You're the sweet, unspoiled child I knew you were. But don't you ever... in the midst of the grueling pace of your career... doesn't there ever come a longing for... the right of all womanhood?
- Lola Burns: Uh... let' see, uh... you mean that, uh...
- Mrs. Titcomb: I mean, don't you ever find yourself listening for the patter of little feet?
- Lola Burns: Why... oh, yes, Mrs. Titcomb. Yes.
- Mrs. Titcomb: The call of motherhood is so strong in some women. The call of fatherhood in men, too. Sometimes I think that's what killed Mr. Titcomb. Oh, well, we must all bear the cross that's given us, I always say.
- Jim Brogan: Who were those two dowagers in there?
- Lola Burns: They're two ladies from the foundling home. How do you think I'm ever going to adopt that little baby when you come in here broadcasting like a sailor?
- Jim Brogan: Now, listen, Lola. You're not really serious about that, are you?
- Lola Burns: Yes. Oh, he's beautiful. I saw him today. He's got the cutest little button nose and the tiniest little mouth.
- Jim Brogan: Those three sheepdogs and that brother of yours are not enough, huh?
- Mac: Lola, the Studio car just arrived with this new script. You'll have to get right over there.
- Lola Burns: Studio? Well, what about location?
- Mac: It's raining out in Riverside...
- Lola Burns: Oh, new scenes, new lines everything.
- [Looks at the script]
- Lola Burns: Well, what's this? I don't recognize it?
- Mac: Retakes on "Red Dust". The Hayes Office censored something and the picture's got to open Monday in New York. Come on, we'll have to hurry.
- Lola Burns: But, I don't know these lines. Gosh, that means a different make-up and I have to have my hair changed again. I ask you, Miss Carroll, as one lady to another - isn't that a load o' clams?
- Lola Burns: You've been out all night and you're still boiled!
- Pops: I've been in conference with some racing men. We've been discussing methods of breeding.
- Lola Burns: Don't talk to me about your methods of breeding. I don't want to hear another word.
- Studio Worker: We're all ready on Stage 7, Lola. So, snap into it, will ya, please.
- Lola Burns: All right... all right! Have some coffee on the set, will ya?
- Studio Worker: You know the new lines?
- Lola Burns: I'll have 'em - but, don't think I'm gonna get in that rain barrel if the water's as cold as it was last time. A polar bear would have died!
- Studio Worker: It's heated, Lola. Honest!