Van Heflin credited as playing...
James I. Hessler
- James I. Hessler: Don't waste your time fussing with those wheezy little tunes - think big. Try to be somebody.
- James I. Hessler: I've given up arranging. I'm through dressing up silly little tunes for girls shows and beerhalls. I'm gonna write some real music for a change.
- James I. Hessler: It's Spring isn't it? Tomorrow morning I think I'm gonna give you a great, big dose of sulphur and molasses.
- James I. Hessler: You certainly are full of surprises. I thought you'd be up in the clouds!
- Jerome Kern: I feel like I've just been yanked out of the clouds.
- Jerome Kern: Jim, you know, for the first time in my life I'm lonely. Here I am on a ship full of people and with you, and I might as well be on a deserted island all by myself. Did you ever feel this way?
- James I. Hessler: Yes, once.
- Jerome Kern: What did you do about it?
- James I. Hessler: I married the girl.