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Joan Blondell, Ina Claire, and Madge Evans in The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Madge Evans: Polaire Quinn

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

Madge Evans credited as playing...

Polaire Quinn

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  • Polaire: Do my eyes deceive me or is she really alone?
  • Schatzi: And without a man.
  • Polaire: I should think she'd be afraid of catching cold.
  • Polaire: I can always tell real pearls - even when they're such little ones!
  • Jean Lawrence: You know that I'm for you and I know that you're for me and there's no friends like old friends.
  • Polaire: It's the three of us.
  • Jean Lawrence: Against the men.
  • Schatzi: [singing] Almost like old times...
  • Dey Emery: Always together, thicker than thieves, and out for no good. I call them the three musketeers of riverside drive.
  • Polaire: Faith.
  • Schatzi: Hope.
  • Jean Lawrence: Charity.
  • Jean Lawrence, Polaire, Schatzi: Ta da!
  • Boris Feldman: You should be on the stage.
  • Jean Lawrence, Polaire, Schatzi: Oh, we've been.
  • Polaire: Ladies of Follies.
  • Jean Lawrence: What's Pops to you?
  • Polaire: Well, he's my fiancé. Not that we're engaged or anything like that.
  • Polaire: Have him bring along some nice friend of his who's fun who'd like to meet a nice girl who's fun too.
  • Jean Lawrence: What's Pops to you?
  • Polaire: Well, you wouldn't expect a nice girl like me to leave a kind, old gentleman like Pops sitting alone at the Metropolitan Club without a friend to call his own.
  • Schatzi: It's not bad, this, huh?
  • Polaire: I'll tell you more about it in the morning.
  • Schatzi: What do you mean?
  • Polaire: You can tell an awful lot about the liquor you drink the night before by where you find your hat the next morning.
  • Polaire: All New York to pick from and you had to bring a piano player.
  • Polaire: Take me down.
  • Jean Lawrence: Well, anyhow.
  • Schatzi, Polaire: Yeah, anyhow.
  • Jean Lawrence: Anyhow.
  • Polaire: Now, come on, Jean. You buck up.
  • Jean Lawrence: When people have fun together, that's something, isn't it.
  • Polaire: Sometimes I think that's all there is.
  • Jean Lawrence: So do I... sometimes.
  • Jean Lawrence: I'll change any habits of mine that don't suit you, the day you change your face for what I can stand.
  • Polaire: You won't have to stand anything about me any more than I do about you, you poor blonde wop!
  • Jean Lawrence: Don't you call me a blonde wop!
  • Schatzi: Stop scrapping, both of you! She can't help it if she's Italian.
  • Jean Lawrence: Say, whatta you do?
  • Boris Feldman: I play the piano.
  • Jean Lawrence: Is that all?
  • Boris Feldman: Well, I took tambourine lessons, but I gave them up when I was very young.
  • Jean Lawrence: Oh, dear - a comic as well.
  • Polaire: He happens to play a little better than anyone else in the world.

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