Pert Kelton credited as playing...
Minnie Brown
- [explaining why she played the phonograph loudly during Lorry and Stephen's argument in the next room]
- Minnie: I was just trying to drown out your domestic happiness.
- Lorry Evans: Minnie!
- [spotting Minnie's wedding ring]
- Minnie: I had to give in sometime, you see the hips was gettin' away from me. You know, I can't stand obesity.
- Lorry Evans: You can't stand what?
- Minnie: Let it go.
- Lorry Evans: How good are you at walkin' on water?
- Minnie: Oh, just fair, but I could do a lot of thinkin' on gin if I knew where to get some.
- [Minnie enters room and spots liquor bottle not knowing that it's empty]
- Minnie: Ah, there you are sweetheart.
- [to liquor bottle]
- Lorry Evans: Say, if you want any more you'll have to wring it out of him to get it.
- [motions to her drunk companion]
- Minnie: He looks wrung out now... why didn't he eat the bottle?
- Minnie: You don't look so bad yourself for a corpse.
- Lorry Evans: A corpse!
- Minnie: You were supposed to be drowned and you don't even look damp.
- Lorry Evans: Well, I got myself resurrected.
- Minnie: Well, you done a good job while you was at it.
- [looking around at Lorry's opulent apartment]
- Minnie: Does he own the mint?
- Lorry Evans: No, but he's got an option on it.
- Lorry Evans: How come I rate all this attention?
- Minnie: You're gonna have a good time tonight if I have to bust out in a rash.
- Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron: I don't expect to see you here again. Minnie Brown, I'll give you the same advice. You're much too impulsive.
- Minnie: I'm tellin' you, Mrs. Webster, I ain't got an impulse left.
- Minnie: I just made all arrangements to get drove down to the boat. Oh, are you a good chauffeur?
- Lorry Evans: What's the matter with the boyfriend? Paralyzed?
- Minnie: Oh, he wants me to help him check up on his groceries.
- Minnie: He's a big cotton man.
- Lorry Evans: Yeah? He looks perfectly normal to me.
- Salesman Ogelthorpe: You're some kidder.
- Lorry Evans: Have you got a lot of cotton ranches or does it grow on animals?
- Stephen Paige: Now, you're a practical woman and I think you could help.
- Minnie: Just a minute, I ain't as practical as I used to be.
- Minnie: They'll be a few little expenses.
- Stephen Paige: Expenses don't matter.
- Minnie: You know, little odds and ends.
- Stephen Paige: Is that enough?
- Minnie: That ought to hold out for a little while.
- Stephen Paige: If it doesn't hold out, you come back.
- Minnie: Mmm. You know, Mr. Paige, it's too bad you wasn't born twins.
- Floorwalker: Having difficulties?
- Minnie: Who wants to know?
- Floorwalker: I beg your pardon?
- Minnie: Why? Have you done somthin' you shouldn't?
- Floorwalker: I was just trying to be of service, that's all.
- Minnie: You see, it's a very embarrassin' subject. I need to talk it over with a lady.
- Lorry Evans: Why, Miss Brown. What a pleasant surprise. How do you do?
- Minnie: Get down off that horse and try walkin'.
- Lorry Evans: Minnie, I got to talk to you.
- Minnie: Okay, if you don't get serious. You know, you gotta let them win once in awhile or they lose that old interest.