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W.C. Fields and Gloria Jean in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

Gloria Jean: Gloria

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Gloria Jean credited as playing...

Gloria

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  • His Niece: We're falling 2,000 feet!
  • The Great Man: It's all right, dear. Don't start worrying 'til we get down 1,999. It's the last foot that's dangerous.
  • His Niece: Why didn't you ever marry?
  • The Great Man: I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
  • The Great Man: Oh, for a Maxwell parachute!
  • His Niece: What's a Maxwell parachute?
  • The Great Man: Good until the last drop, dear.
  • [they're in the basket trying to figure out how to get it pulled up to the mountaintop - a rock falls on his head]
  • His Niece: Did it hurt you, uncle?
  • The Great Man: No... how could a rock dropping from a thousand feet hurt your head?
  • His Niece: [Last Lines] My Uncle Bill. But I still love him.
  • The Great Man: Don't you want to be smart?
  • His Niece: No. I want to be like you.
  • The Great Man: Don't you think I'm smart?
  • His Niece: Not very.
  • His Niece: [as things turn into chaos, at Fields' instigation, shaking her head] My uncle Bill...
  • [then, resolute]
  • His Niece: But I still love him!
  • His Niece: Uncle Bill, I don't want you to get married.
  • The Great Man: You listen to me, Missy, don't you want to live in this beautiful nest? Have a personal maid?
  • His Niece: No.
  • The Great Man: Wear diaphanous gowns? And eat regularly?

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