Louise Fazenda credited as playing...
Abbie Belldon
- Marge Winton: Oh, excuse me.
- Abbie Belldon: Well, come in.
- Marge Winton: I - wanted to see Mr. Belldon.
- Abbie Belldon: You're talking to him. Sit down.
- Abbie Belldon: It's about time you showed up. It's getting so, I have to stand over you writers like a policeman to make you get your stuff out on time. You're cheating on the little girls of America! Where are the last chapters of "The Motorcycle Girls in the Everglades"?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Oh, it's wonderful! I got them all, everyone of them on their motorcycles in the middle of the swamp. This is Chapter 12. And I got them up to there
- [hold hand under his chin]
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: - in water. But, I don't know how to get them out?
- Abbie Belldon: Have 'em swim out.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Yeah, but, what about the motorcycles? They can't swim!
- Abbie Belldon: Your next series will be - eh - "The Airplane Girls in Africa" - and pick a new name for yourself.
- [dismissingly]
- Abbie Belldon: 'Mabel DeCraven'.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Well, it was a toss up between that and Rosa Bell Heart. I kinda felt Rosa Bell Heart was too effeminate.
- Abbie Belldon: For the next series, pick a new pseudonym.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Prudence Parker?
- Abbie Belldon: No, not Prudence. Let me see?
- Marge Winton: Priscilla!
- Abbie Belldon: Excellent! How's it sound to you 'Mabel'?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That's fine. Priscill - they might call me Prissy for short?
- Abbie Belldon: They won't. I'll make it a house rule.
- Abbie Belldon: It's Freddy Matthews, at last.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That's fine. Now you can ball him out.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: For the love of Mike, Abbie. That's a dirty trick to play on Freddy!
- Abbie Belldon: What are you talking about?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That girl!
- Abbie Belldon: What's the matter with her?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Everything! Sex takes a holiday. Freddy'll throw a fit. Imagine working all day in front of a face like that?
- Abbie Belldon: You listen to me, Freddy Matthews. On the strength of a 10-page synopis on what your story would be like, I sold the picture rights to Super Fine Pictures for $30,000! Have you overlooked that?
- Freddy Matthews: I haven't overlooked it. I've overdrawn it.
- Abbie Belldon: Exactly.
- Abbie Belldon: Unless your book is finished by the first of May...
- Freddy Matthews: You can't get blood out of a turnip.
- Abbie Belldon: Well, then, stop being a turnip and get to work!
- Abbie Belldon: How's the novel coming?
- Marge Winton: Well, to be frank, Miss Belldon, it was progressing quite nicely until last night.
- Abbie Belldon: Come on, tell me, women or liquor?
- Abbie Belldon: Where's Marge?
- Freddy Matthews: Marge is gone forever. This is Sadie.
- [pointing to Marge]
- Jake Edgall: Now, wait a minute. Let's get this straight. Who are you?
- [pointing to Marge]
- Marge Winton: Sadie.
- Abbie Belldon: Who is Sadie?
- Sadie Day: Marge.
- Jake Edgall: Why?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Oh, I get it. She's Sadie that's really Marge. Just like I'm Mabel when I'm not Mike.
- Jake Edgall: Who am I?
- Marge Winton: You're Jake.
- Jake Edgall: Well, now we're gettin' somewhere. If she ain't Marge anymore. And she's Sadie. Who have I been keepin' company with?
- Sadie Day: Me.
- Jake Edgall: Who are you?
- Sadie Day: Susie.
- Jake Edgall: Then, I never met you before?
- Sadie Day: That's right.
- Marge Winton: I wish you'd get your names straight.
- Freddy Matthews: So do I.
- Freddy Matthews: But her looks. That face wouldn't stop a clock. It would start it running backwards.
- Abbie Belldon: You're supposed to be writing a book, not running a beauty contest.
- Alonzo: He's in, miss. He's concentrating. Please enter.
- Abbie Belldon: Concentrating, eh? Well, that's something new.