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Frank Sinatra, Michèle Morgan, Leon Errol, Barbara Hale, Jack Haley, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Marcy McGuire, and Dooley Wilson in Higher and Higher (1943)

Jack Haley: Mike O'Brien

Higher and Higher

Jack Haley credited as playing...

Mike O'Brien

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  • Mike O'Brien: Hello small, cute, and adolescent.
  • Mickey: I have finished adolescencing.
  • Mike O'Brien: You shouldn't hurry a thing like that, my dear.
  • Mike O'Brien: So, we take a dame, see. That's our bait. We sugar the dame with a lot of swell clothes. And we call her Miss Pamela Drake, debutante daughter of Mr. Cyrus Drake, the famous piano tycoon.
  • Mike O'Brien: We struck a potential gold mine. Say, Sandy, you could help us polish Millie.
  • Millie Pico: But, I don't want to be polished.
  • Millie Pico: What about me?
  • Mike O'Brien: [singing] You will rocket like a ball of fire
  • Mike O'Brien, Cyrus Drake, Mrs. Whiffin, Marty, Mickey, Byngham, Sandy Brooks: Higher and Higher and Higher and Higher...
  • Mike O'Brien: All we need is a girl to play the part.
  • Mickey: *I* am at your disposal.
  • Mike O'Brien: Okay, you're disposed of.
  • Millie Pico: How could she be my mother when she's never met my father?
  • Mike O'Brien: Television.
  • Millie Pico: Oh, isn't it wonderful what the right clothes can do for a girl.
  • Mike O'Brien: No, it's wonderful what the right girl can do for clothes.
  • Mike O'Brien: Who's Katherine Keating?
  • Millie Pico: The girl I have to lick.
  • Sandy Brooks: Good!
  • Mike O'Brien: That was great, old boy. Now, we'll be seeing you at the Butler's Ball.
  • Sandy Brooks: And maybe I'll sing for *you*.
  • Frank: That'll be peachy.
  • Millie Pico: [Sandy walks in and finds Mike kissing up Millie's arm] We're playing a game. He's a wolf and I'm pretty soft.
  • Mike O'Brien: Yeah... Um... She, um... I was just trying to, eh... show her a few things I picked up.
  • Sandy Brooks: From the things you picked up.

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