Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

Joan Blondell: Molly Mahoney

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• Pat Mahoney : He was pretty swell in the moonlight last night.

  Molly Mahoney : So is the Taj Mahal, but I wouldn't wanna marry it.

• Molly Mahoney : Keep your toes crossed.

• Molly Mahoney : Well, we can't spend the whole day admiring each other.

  Eddie Kerns : Say, that's right. We gotta get down to the casino. Buddy Bartell is waiting for us right now.

  Molly Mahoney : He is? Oh, can't we go to the beauty parlor and get sand blasted or something? I got half of Nebraska down my neck.

  Eddie Kerns : Aw, come on, you look beautiful.

• Molly Mahoney : Here I'm thinkin' you're all grown up and you're actin' like a kid again. Come on, buck up.

• Molly Mahoney : Let's go! You all wanna be Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell someday, don't you?

  Kids Tap Class : Yes, Miss Mahoney!

  Molly Mahoney : Will I live to see it? Pick 'em up! You shouldn't be tired at your age.

• Molly Mahoney : Well, kids. Gee, the routines look swell. You'll walk away with the show!

  Eddie Kerns : Oh, they'll be alright after you brush up some of the rough spots for us. Maybe you can give us a couple of good hot breaks?

  Molly Mahoney : Not on your life! I'm saving my routines for television!

  Eddie Kerns : [laughter]  Oh, television! Goodness!

• Pat Mahoney : [Showing off her nails]  Look, how do you like 'em? Its that new shade of Campbell Red all those glamour girls are wearing.

  Molly Mahoney : Swell. Slip into this. Maybe it'll look better on you than it did on the ironing board.

• Molly Mahoney : Now, don't you worry, baby. With what you got, nobody'll even see the dress.

• Molly Mahoney : I guess you've been doin' all right for yourself since you got out of show business with that column and all those newspapers and everything.

  Jed Marlowe : Aw, I've got those chumps fooled. I'm still a hoofer at heart.

  Molly Mahoney : So am I. I used to dream I'd have this town at my feet. Now I'd settle for a good chiropodist.

• Jed Marlowe : Tell me, aren't you Miss These, Them and Those, yet?

  Molly Mahoney : You mean, Eddie? No, not yet, but we're engaged and that's as good as bein' married.

  Jed Marlowe : As good? It's a darn sight better.

• Jed Marlowe : Molly, you're in a swell spot here to keep your eyes and ears open to see what's going on. And that's what I breed on. How'd you like to make yourself a little extra dough?

  Molly Mahoney : Sure. I think so.

  Jed Marlowe : Swell. Now, here's your first job. Find out who that sweet little dish is that has Chat Chatsworth hanging on the ropes. You know her?

  Molly Mahoney : [Sees it's Pat]  No, Jed. That's a new one on me.

• Molly Mahoney : Say, what is this bird Chatsworth like, anyway?

  Jed Marlowe : He's a wild cuckoo. He flits from limb to limb and every season he picks himself a new mate. After he's feathered their nest with linoleum, he flies away and picks himself another. Five, so far.

  Molly Mahoney : Five wives?

  Jed Marlowe : From penthouse to flop house in one easy lesson.

• Pat Mahoney : Aren't you coming?

  Molly Mahoney : Later, I've got to finish dunking this lingerie.

• Molly Mahoney : Don't worry, Pat. You're not going to be in the way. Besides, Eddie's just as crazy about you as I am.

• Jed Marlowe : You got any mud for me?

  Molly Mahoney : No, not yet, Jed, I - I been kinda busy.

  Jed Marlowe : Did you get the low down on that pigeon Chatsworth's running around with?

  Molly Mahoney : No, I haven't.

  Jed Marlowe : They tell me she's a little Romanian dancer by the name of -Mahoney.

• Molly Mahoney : Now, listen, kid. You can't go for that. In a month you'd be one of his ex-wives. He's a regular Henry the Eighth!

• Molly Mahoney : [to Pat]  Bye baby, be happy.

  [to Eddie] 

  Molly Mahoney : And you better see that she is too - you big ham-o-la.

• Jed Marlowe : Molly, you can still change your mind.

  Molly Mahoney : Not me. I'm gonna be back in Nebraska in time for the corn and lima bean festival. And, who knows, maybe this year I'll be elected Queen of the Succotash!