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Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson, and George Raft in Manpower (1941)

Quotes

Manpower

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  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: [Last Lines] Did anyone yell headache when I was coming down?
  • Johnny Marshall: Sure.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I'm glad nobody got hurt.
  • [Hank dies]
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I ain't used to havin' women servin' me breakfast. I guess there is somethin' to this marriage business after all. How long has this been going on?
  • Fay Duval: Since Adam and Eve.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: You know, I can't figure it. I like the dames, but they don't go for me. I'm strictly a cold wire in that department.
  • Johnny Marshall: For every guy in this world, there's a dame. You just gotta wait.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Yeah, I'm waitin'. Only I want to whisper "I love you" with my own teeth!
  • Mrs. Calkin - Saleslady: The young lady will be right out. Do you like the longer dresses they're wearing this year?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Uh, it don't bother me none. I got a good memory.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Johnny, what are you doing for supper tonight?
  • Johnny Marshall: Oh, nothing exciting.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well, come on home with me.
  • Johnny Marshall: Nah, it's getting to be a habit.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: What's the matter? Don't you like the food?
  • Johnny Marshall: Oh sure, I like it. But if I show up at your house this week for another meal, Fay'll wind up calling the cops. And after all, you're practically still on your honeymoon.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I'm only asking you for supper.
  • Fay Duval: I don't get anything out of this joint but tired.
  • Citizen Reporting Power Outage: [First Lines] Power and light company? Hey, the lights are out!
  • Dolly: You know, Smiley, there's one grand consolation about working in this dump. You can't get any lower.
  • Johnny Marshall: [the phone rings] I'll get it. Oh, if it's that blonde, are you in or out?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well if it's her, I'm in and ready to go out!
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: You know, I can't figure it. I like the dames, but they don't go for me. I'm strictly a cold wire in that department.
  • Johnny Marshall: For every guy in this world, there's a dame. You just gotta wait.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Yeah, I'm waitin'. Only I want to whisper 'I love you' with my own teeth!
  • Fay Duval: If I want to roll in the gutter, let me roll.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well, I'll be right back, Baby. You know, dancin' with you is like walkin' on clouds.
  • Polly: That's what you think. Those were my feet!
  • Johnny Marshall: They'll be other nights, Baby.
  • Polly: Not for me, there won't. Not with that jerk of all trades!
  • Johnny Marshall: What's wrong with you, Sister?
  • Polly: He's worn a path right up my ankles.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I still can't understand why I had to throttle that dame to make her kiss me.
  • Johnny Marshall: It's the way you move in. You're with a dame two minutes and she wants to bat your brains out.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well, I wouldn't say that. I know plenty of dames who went completely daffy over me.
  • Johnny Marshall: Oh, who are you kidding. Every time I've seen you up at bat, you strike out. But, you mug, even if the dames don't love you, I do.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Yeah? What's that gonna get me?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: You guys can needle me all you want. But, that dame tonight was really stacked up. And, furthermore, as soon as we finish that line-break, I'm going right back to that little mouse.
  • Eddie Adams: If she's waitin' for you, she must be one of the three blind mice.
  • Jumbo Wells: As I was tellin' ya, that dame was so thin that every time she took a drink of tomato juice, she looked like a thermometer.
  • Eddie Adams: I like a dame that's built like a hot water bottle.
  • Omaha: I wish I was home with a good book and a brunette.
  • Johnny Marshall: Don't kid us, you can't read.
  • Omaha: That's what I say.
  • Jumbo Wells: No brunettes for me. I'm strictly a blonde-of-the-month club man.
  • Pop Duval: Kid me if you want to, but those wires, I felt them, you haven't! They're as treacherous as a snake. You'll find out like I did.
  • Johnny Marshall: Forget it Pop. The worst thing that could happen is that they send you home in a box. And everybody rates that, sooner or later.
  • Eddie Adams: I'll take later.
  • Jumbo Wells: Yeah, much later.
  • Sidney Whipple: Say, listen, can't you men speak to your friend. We can't get any service around here. The nurses are all afraid to go near this - this octopus!
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: How come I get a different nurse in here every time I ring?
  • Nurse Who Lost Draw: Well, for this room we always draw lots and this time I lost. What can I do for you?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: When do I get my next bath?
  • Nurse Who Lost Draw: You've had three already today!
  • Johnny Marshall: When is the doc checkin' you out?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Oh, in about a week. Yeah, but this leg will never be right. I got to settle down on the ground like a squirrel with the gout.
  • Pop Duval: How's Hank?
  • Johnny Marshall: He's doin' fine.
  • Pop Duval: Did you tell him how I can't stand to go in a hospital?
  • Johnny Marshall: He knows it. He don't like it himself.
  • Johnny Marshall: Your daughter wound up gettin' pinched in a Frisco gin joint for clippin' a sucker's wallet. That wasn't your fault.
  • Pop Duval: It wasn't her fault either. She was innocent.
  • Johnny Marshall: Yeah. Yeah, you told me.
  • Fay Duval: Have you got a cigarette? I bet I look like something that came in with the tide. I sure could use some powder and lipstick.
  • Johnny Marshall: Sorry, I left mine at home.
  • Drug Store Clerk: What can I do for you, sir?
  • Johnny Marshall: I want a lipstick. You heard me.
  • Drug Store Clerk: Yes, sir. Eh, what shade?
  • Johnny Marshall: Any color, as long as it's red.
  • Johnny Marshall: It's a good thing that stuff ain't fattening.
  • Fay Duval: I could use a couple of pounds. The rest cure didn't do my figure any good.
  • Drug Store Clerk: It didn't do it any harm.
  • Johnny Marshall: Go on, jerk yourself a soda.
  • Fay Duval: [props her leg up] Say, doc, you got something to take out a spot?
  • Drug Store Clerk: Oh, yes, ma'am. We always keep it handy.
  • [walks over with the spot remover and rubs an area of Fay's dress above her propped up knee]
  • Fay Duval: How's the view from your angle?
  • Johnny Marshall: I've seen as good.
  • Drug Store Clerk: There! Any other spots?
  • Fay Duval: No, what do you think I am? A leopard?
  • Drug Store Clerk: Oh there's one.
  • [touches Fay's bottom and Fay slaps away his hand]
  • Fay Duval: I'll handle that one.
  • Johnny Marshall: What are you gonna do in LA?
  • Fay Duval: Oh, I'll get by, one way or the other.
  • Johnny Marshall: Why don't you try the other way for a change.
  • Fay Duval: Because there's too many guys like you - crawling around.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Say, how does this dame stack up?
  • Johnny Marshall: Oh, just a dame.
  • Johnny Marshall: Why do you even waste your time with a dame like that?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Oh, she seems all right, Johnny. You didn't give her a chance. I feel sorry for the filly. I wonder how she's fixed for dough?
  • Drunk Texan: Rope us in - she's young and tender! Gimme a bourbon and soda - eh, a soda and a blonde.
  • Smiley Quinn: Now, go on, be like me, just lose yourself in your work.
  • Fay Duval: It doesn't help. I always find myself again.
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I bet you ain't gettin' rich in this flea bag.
  • Fay Duval: You're right. I don't get anything out of this joint, but tired.
  • FloorLady: Is there anything I can do for you gentlemen?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well, yeah, I would like to buy a birthday present for a mouse.
  • FloorLady: A mouse?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I mean, a dame.
  • FloorLady: Have you anything specific in mind? A purse, perfume, costume jewelry?
  • Jumbo Wells: Hey, Hank, how 'bout some underwear? Could we see some models?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: What's the difference between a robe and a negligee?
  • Johnny Marshall: A robe covers you up.
  • Jumbo Wells: Well then, let's look at the negligees.
  • Mrs. Calkin - Saleslady: You gentlemen will be seated. I'll have some very nice items modeled for you.
  • Jumbo Wells: Johnny, what about the underwear?
  • Johnny Marshall: Let's get this over with and beat it. I don't know what I'm doin' in here anyway.
  • Fay Duval: What's going on? What is on your mind?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Nothing. Say, does a guy have to have somthin' on his mind when he gives a dame a present?
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Hi ya, squirrels! What's cookin'?
  • Eddie Adams: Ah, some dame down in Santa Monica got a washing machine on the fritz.
  • Jumbo Wells: Ah, tell her not to worry. I'll go down and wash her.
  • Johnny Marshall: Why don't you try it on yourself?
  • Smiley Quinn: Hustle your muscle, Scarlett. There's a guy at the bar with a new set of dough.
  • Fay Duval: I don't like to give a good guy a bad shake.
  • Dolly: Listen, if a fella ever proposed to me, I'd only ask myself two things: A - Does he wear pants? B - Has he got a job? Look around you Fay, this joint's a dead end street. I'm 25, look 35, and feel like 50.
  • Scarlett: Hey, Fay, the guy up at the bar wants to see you and he ain't bad.
  • Fay Duval: He ain't good or he wouldn't be in here.
  • Fay Duval: The tinhorns that talk biggest, scream the loudest when they get the check. You're so cheap, you're wholesale.
  • Fay Duval: What makes you think I couldn't level with the guy?
  • Johnny Marshall: You couldn't even level with yourself. You got that clip joint in your blood and you'll never lose it.
  • Dolly: Looks like a honeymoon for one.
  • Fay Duval: If a man can't get tight on his wedding night, when can he?
  • Scarlett: I've heard of guys passin' out cigars on the wedding night; but, your honey just passes out.
  • Benny - Counterman: What'll it be boys?
  • Lineman #1: A cup of mud without any cream, in a hurry.
  • Benny - Counterman: A blackout! And blitz it!
  • Lineman #2: Four hamburgers to take out.
  • Benny - Counterman: Chop up four cows to be convoyed!
  • Benny - Counterman: Come on, boys, let's have your orders.
  • Jumbo Wells: I'll take hash.
  • Benny - Counterman: The guy wants to take a chance!
  • Omaha: Bein' as I'm his pal, I'll take the same chance.
  • Benny - Counterman: Another sport!
  • Lineman #3: Hey, a nice cut of beef. Juicy and no fat.
  • Benny - Counterman: One impossible!
  • Benny - Counterman: And your's?
  • Lineman #4: How are your cherries?
  • Benny - Counterman: Okay, how are your's?
  • Lineman #4: Are they fresh?
  • Benny - Counterman: Positively, brother.
  • Lineman #4: Alright, I'll take an order.
  • Benny - Counterman: One George Washington out of the can!
  • Eddie Adams: Give me a bowl of chili with plenty of peppers.
  • Benny - Counterman: One Mexican heartburn!
  • Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Hey, Benny! Get me a nice bottle of Sherry and wrap it up for a present, will ya?
  • Benny - Counterman: Grapes of Wrath in a sport jacket!
  • Dolly: Don't be a sap, Fay. You don't know what you're gettin' into.
  • Fay Duval: I know what I'm getting out of.

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