Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideToronto Int'l Film FestivalSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
Fred Astaire, Arlene Dahl, Red Skelton, and Vera-Ellen in Three Little Words (1950)

Quotes

Three Little Words

Edit
  • Bert Kalmar: I wouldn't write that song with you if you begged me.
  • Harry Ruby: Begged ya? I didn't even ask ya.
  • Bert Kalmar: I guess you just can't help it, Harry. I feel sorry for you.
  • Harry Ruby: Feel sorry for me? You must think I'm just a...
  • Bert Kalmar: I could tell you what I think of you in just three little words. You're a dope!
  • Bert Kalmar: Hey, wait a minute. You're not walking out on me, are you?
  • Jessie Brown: Not yet.
  • Bert Kalmar: What'd you open the door for?
  • Jessie Brown: Because I'm a nice girl, Mr. Kalmar. And a nice girl always leaves the door open.
  • Bert Kalmar: There hasn't been a good Japanese song for quite awhile. I got something here I thought might work out. I call it, "So long, Oo-long."
  • Bert Kalmar: [singing] Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm weak, maybe I'm strong. But nevertheless I'm in love with you...
  • Bert Kalmar: Read a book sometime. It might improve your brain.
  • Bert Kalmar: Look, it's okay to admire my wife; but, would you mind taking your elbow out of my butter.
  • Helen Kane: [singing] I wanna be loved by you, just you, And nobody else but you, I wanna be loved by you, alone! Boop-boop-a-doop!
  • Bert Kalmar: [singing] Three little words, eight little letters, Which simply mean I love you.
  • Jessie Brown: You want to be everything in show business all at once and I just want to be a wife.
  • Harry Ruby: [singing] I can't forget, The night we met, On the shores of Araby, The moon lite up the sky, And love lite up your eyes.
  • Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby: [singing] I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise, An angel's voice I hear, I mean my mammy, dear...
  • Jessie Brown Kalmar: [singing] So when I fall asleep at night, It seems you just tip-toe into all my dreams, So I think of no other one, Ever since I've begun thinking of you.
  • Harry Ruby: [singing] Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African Explorer!
  • Bert Kalmar: Did someone call me Schnorrer?
  • Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby: Hooray, hooray, hooray!
  • Harry Ruby: I got plenty of tunes in me!
  • Eileen Percy: [singing] I love you so much, I can't conceal it, / I love you so much, it's a wonder you don't feel it.
  • Bert Kalmar: I've got a great idea. An opening for the new act. I come out in one, see, I'm a magician.
  • Jessie Brown: Oh, a magician.
  • Bert Kalmar: Yeah! I'm in full dressed suit, medals on my chest, maybe a mustache and a little goatee.
  • Jessie Brown: [sarcastically] Yes, I adore little goatees.
  • Bert Kalmar: Don't fool around with that goose. He's vicious!
  • Harry Ruby: Well, they usually are.
  • Jessie Brown: I'm not a girl who needs a new sable every winter.
  • Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby: [singing] Lawdy, hear my plea, Make me what I wanna be, A rolling stone just rolling home to my sunny Tennessee.
  • Bert Kalmar: What are you gaping at?
  • Harry Ruby: I'm not gaping.
  • Jessie Brown: [singing] I'm sweet Marie from gay Paris, This is my new car, It fill my heart with joy, To drive a Yankee boy...
  • Jessie Brown: [singing] But, if you pooh-pooh me, I pooh-pooh you...
  • Jessie Brown: [singing] When you're in zee car, Don't go too far, Ooh la la, Ooh la la, Come on, papa
  • Terry Lordel: Oh, Mr. Kalmar, I want to tell you about that number of yours. It's just terrif! It's sensash!
  • Terry Lordel: Snooky rehearsed me in it.
  • Bert Kalmar: Snooky?
  • Terry Lordel: Snooky! This is Snooky.
  • Bert Kalmar: Hi ya, Snooky!
  • Harry Ruby: Aw, she calls me Snooky.
  • Terry Lordel: Isn't he sweet. Aw, I could eat him up! Rrrrrr!
  • Terry Lordel: Light me, please?
  • Bert Kalmar: I beg your pardon?
  • Terry Lordel: Light me.
  • Bert Kalmar: Oh, yes, of course. Sure.
  • [lights Terry's cigarette]
  • Harry Ruby: What do you think of her?
  • Jessie Brown Kalmar: Well, she's - very peppy, isn't she.
  • Harry Ruby: Yeah, she's got a lot of life.
  • Harry Ruby: Look, Bert, you're not going to let this thing lick you, are you? Cause if you do, it's gonna lick me too.
  • Jessie Brown Kalmar: I still think Harry's in love.
  • Bert Kalmar: Don't be silly. Just because a fella writes a romantic tune that doesn't mean he has to be Beethoven.
  • Charlie Kope: You know, you've got a friend and you've got a friend and that's what I like to see: friends.

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.