Robert Montgomery credited as playing...
Freddy Matthews
- Freddy Matthews: [describing the plot of his new book to Camille] So, when she refused to marry him, why, he got a job on a ukulele ranch down in Honolulu. You know, breaking in wild ukuleles.
- 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!
- Marge Winton: Why, it's almost one o'clock.
- Freddy Matthews: Yes, just think of that. And in Siam it's only eight o'clock. Funny people, those Siamese. I've been up for hours and they're still sleeping.
- Freddy Matthews: That typewriters taking plenty punishment.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: The typewriter and me both.
- Freddy Matthews: Been makin' you work?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: I don't mind. The quicker I finish this book, the sooner I'll get rid of her.
- Freddy Matthews: Not so good between paragraphs, huh?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: It has never occurred to me to try. She'll make somebody a good wife. Probably a blind man.
- Freddy Matthews: Women, women, women. Let this be a lesson to you, Alonzo. Once you rely on them, sooner or later, they'll drive you crazy.
- Alonzo: Yes, sir. It's an affliction I've often anticipated, sir.
- Freddy Matthews: I know you.
- Marge Winton: You do?
- Freddy Matthews: Of course, you're the girl who dropped her bag that day in the cocktail bar and I picked up all those things.
- Marge Winton: Oh, was that you?
- Freddy Matthews: Yes, I guess I didn't make much of an impression, did I?
- Marge Winton: Well, you see, you were under the table most of the time.
- Freddy Matthews: Well, you know how she is, sort of stiff and proper.
- Marge Winton: Just a regular old maid, in fact.
- Freddy Matthews: Yes. But, she's a marvelous secretary and I need her badly.
- Marge Winton: I can imagine.
- Marge Winton: Perhaps you'd like to join me? Do you like canned corned beef hash?
- Freddy Matthews: No. However, I have a very good idea. Why don't you come out and have dinner with me?
- Marge Winton: Oh, but I couldn't do that.
- Freddy Matthews: Why not?
- Marge Winton: Well, I hardly know you.
- Freddy Matthews: You'll know be better after dinner.
- Freddy Matthews: You - it's strange.
- Marge Winton: What?
- Freddy Matthews: I have a funny feeling that I am not I and you are not you.
- Marge Winton: Who do you think I am then?
- Freddy Matthews: We're two totally different people in a world of our own. A world that started a few hours ago. A world just for the two of us and nobody else.
- Freddy Matthews: I dislike brunettes. I dislike them! They make me moody. I like girls who are blonde and about five feet three and weigh about 112 pounds.
- Marge Winton: I get my dime back. I weigh 118.
- Freddy Matthews: Well, six more pounds to have and to hold.
- Marge Winton: Oh, Freddy, what delightful nonsense.
- Freddy Matthews: But before I go...
- Marge Winton: Yes.
- Freddy Matthews: There's something I want to say to you. Something that's going to be very difficult for me to say.
- Marge Winton: What's that?
- Freddy Matthews: Good night.
- Marge Winton: [laughs] Oh, you idiot! Good night.
- Freddy Matthews: Let me ask you something, Mike. If you knew there was a beautiful girl around here someplace and you wanted to find her, where would you look first?
- Pedestrian: Right in back of me. To make sure my wife wasn't following me.
- Marge Winton: That's all the more reason why you should work right now.
- Freddy Matthews: Okay. You win. Go get your notebook. I'll dictate to you while they work on me.
- Camille Lansing: Who are you down here with?
- Freddy Matthews: Well, there are 150 women in the hotel. You don't think I'm making love to all of them, do you?
- Camille Lansing: I wouldn't put it past you.
- Freddy Matthews: All right, if it means so much to you, I'll make a bargain with you. You go out and get yourself a costume for the Fiesta and I'll go upstairs and dictate to Marge.
- 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.
- Freddy Matthews: You know, I think I know that girl.
- Camille Lansing: You mean, you think you'd like to meet her.