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Joan Blondell in Miss Pinkerton (1932)

Joan Blondell: Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton

Joan Blondell credited as playing...

Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton

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  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Here's a dollar, keep the change.
  • Taxi Driver: There is no change.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Then we're even.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: So this is romance. Three pair of tonsils and a breakaway kidney all in one day.
  • First Nurse: Oh, I'm busy too, Adams. I think I'm losing my mind.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Probably gone away some place with mine.
  • First Nurse: Got a date for tonight?
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Oh, no such luck. I smell so of Chloroform no one but a guy with a gas mask would make a pass at me.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Oh, I'm tired and I'm bored! I think I'll donate my pink and white body to science and commit suicide.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: What's my rank?
  • Police Inspector Patten: What?
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: My rank? My title? If I'm gonna be with the police force, what am I? A female copper or disinfected stool pigeon?
  • Police Inspector Patten: Well, let's see. You're a Pinkerton. That's it! Miss Pinkerton of Scotland Yard.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Oh, that's swell!
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: You're a great detective. I sometimes wonder how far you'd get if all these wicked criminals didn't go around catching themselves.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Wrong again, Sherlock Holmes. That boy did not kill Wynn!
  • Police Inspector Patten: Just like a woman. You mustn't let those good looking eyes and that calm, innocent babyface fool ya.
  • Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: When I want to be fooled by someone, I'll put myself in your shoes.

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