Beauty for Sale (1933)

Una Merkel: Carol Merrick

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Quotes 

• [Regarding Burt, who has run out on his pregnant lover, but is the apple of his mother's eye] 

  Carol Merrick : Oh, well - maternal pride. I bet even a baby skunk smells like a rosebud to its mother.

• Carol Merrick : It's a pity mother didn't drowned you as a pup!

• Bill Merrick : Olive oil!

  Carol Merrick : Take care of yourself!

  Bill Merrick : Olive oil!

  Carol Merrick : Bye-bye!

  Bill Merrick : Olive oil!

• Bill Merrick : Hey Letty, how about you and me going down to Coney Island and shakin' a couple of legs?

  Letty Lawson : Not tonight, Bill. I feel kinda low.

  Bill Merrick : Aw, all you need is cheerin' up, babe, and I got just what the doctor ordered.

  Carol Merrick : Aw, Bill, can't you see she's all tired out? Why don't you park it in bed, kid?

• Burt Barton : Say, what is it so funny in being in love with a girl and wanting to make her happy?

  Carol Merrick : And you could make her happy if you go about it properly.

  Burt Barton : How?

  Carol Merrick : By marrying some other girl!

• Letty Lawson : Can you imagine? All that row just because I want to work in a beauty parlor?

  Carol Merrick : I can see his point though. You oughtin' have to work anywhere. Why, you been brought up like a Persian kitten.

  Letty Lawson : Well, even a Persian kitten's got kitten toenails if she has to use 'em.

• Letty Lawson : I got a living to earn for two and I can't do it in Kentucky. You got to take your spoon where the soup is.

  Carol Merrick : Well, the soup's hot in New York, kid. You're likely to get burned.

  Letty Lawson : Oh, I'm not afraid. I know they don't play the game here the way they do back home. It's rough and tumble and catch as catch can. But, I can play it.

• Carol Merrick : I'm very sorry I stayed the night with a friend and I just...

  Madame Sonia Barton : Your affairs are none of the slightest interests to me; except, when they interfere with mine. Out-of-business hours, my young ladies, they do what they please, where they please - so long as they report at nine: fresh, clear-skinned and bright eyed! In the future, when you plan spending the night - with a friend - I would advise the purchase of an alarm clock.

• Letty Lawson : What did she say?

  Carol Merrick : Not much; but, I felt as if I'd been stabbed with an icicle.

• Carol Merrick : Gee, you couldn't get an extra half hour for lunch in this place if you called an extra session of Congress! Well, that's what you get for pickin' a woman boss. I'm so fed up on women, I would almost take a job as chamber maid in the old men's home.

• Carol Merrick : Gee, that's certainly a swell lid! What a man! I'd like to meet him myself. If he gives you a hat like that after knowing you for an hour, think what he'd do in three weeks.

• Carol Merrick : Say, who's been throwing raw meat in your cage? Pipe down, will ya!

  Bill Merrick : And you've done it all right!

  Carol Merrick : Done what?

  Bill Merrick : [referring to Letty]  Made her into a worthless little gold digger like yourself!

• Mrs. Merrick : Bill, where are you going?

  Bill Merrick : I'm going out and get drunk!

  Mrs. Merrick : Oh, dear! Oh, he shouldn't do that.

  Carol Merrick : Why not, he might wash out that dirty mouth of his.

• Carol Merrick : Well, all I can say is smell the roses; but, don't let the thorns prick your finger.

• Carol Merrick : Can you do something for me, will ya? Give my face a good once over? I want to look my best tonight. The Big Moment and I are going to the mat over a very important deal.

  Letty Lawson : You know I will! Come on!

• Jane : Glory be, it's quitting time! I couldn't have stood another hour.

  Hortense : Jane, don't change your uniform yet. Go to Madame's office for a manicure.

  Carol Merrick : I thought the old cat sharpened her own claws.

  Letty Lawson : Meow!

• Carol Merrick : Do I look appealing?

  Letty Lawson : Oh, you look like a bouquet of baby's-breath. I hope you have good luck.

  Carol Merrick : I will or Freddy'll find his baby's-breathe is a snapdragon!

• Carol Merrick : I'd a known better. If I hadn't let myself get so wrapped up in you.

  Freddy Gordon : Sugar, Daddy only be gone two months.

• Carol Merrick : I just can't stand it! No, no, no! I-I can't stand it! I just can't stand it.

  Freddy Gordon : Oh, gorgeous, sweetheart, Daddy didn't know you'd take it so hard.

• Freddy Gordon : Why, what is it you see in me? I'm not young - and I ain't handsome?

  Carol Merrick : Oh, but darling, you're simply crawling with personality!

• Carol Merrick : Yesterday I saw a lovely summer urban coat, just the thing to travel in and a lot of other things I've got to have. Oh, maybe I oughtin'. But, I do like to look nice for you.

  Freddy Gordon : Sugerplum, you just write your own ticket!

• Carol Merrick : [showing off her new fur coat]  How's that for summer evenings on deck?

  Letty Lawson : I can just see you and Freddy in the moonlight.

  Carol Merrick : Not Freddy! He's chaperoned by his narrow-minded brother-in-law. Thank heaven! But, there'll be others on board that moonlight's just as becoming to!

• Letty Lawson : If you ever fall in love with a man that you can't marry...

  Carol Merrick : Oh, but I...

  Letty Lawson : I said if! If you do, run like a rabbit! For the best you'll get out of it is the worst of it. You don't want to have to hang around the back door of his life, begging for a handout. You don't want to have to sneak and hide and keep outta sight the way I do. And in the end, when he turns back to his wife and his home, you don't want to be kicked out in the sacred name of respectability - the way I was.

  [Letty stands up and kisses Carol on the lips] 

• Hortense : Will you look who's here! Carol Merrick.

  Carol Merrick : In the flesh! The black sheep has come back to be bleached.

• Letty Lawson : Carol, I can't! I can't marry him!

  Carol Merrick : Well, isn't it a little late, honey?

  Letty Lawson : I don't care. But, I'd kill him or I'd kill myself!

• Letty Lawson : [referring to Burt Barton]  Who is he?

  Carol Merrick : Sonia's son. He's the pineapple of her eye.