Footlight Parade (1933)

Claire Dodd: Vivian Rich

Quotes 

• Nan Prescott : You scram, before I wrap a chair around your neck!

  Vivian Rich : [Angrily]  It's three o'clock in the morning - where do you want me to go?

  [Nan starts to speak, but Vivian immediately cuts her off] 

  Vivian Rich : You cheap stenographer...

  Nan Prescott : Outside, countess. As long as they've got sidewalks YOU'VE got a job.

  [Shoves her out, gives her a swift kick in the rump, and slams the door behind her] 

• Vivian Rich : Chester, it's like being in jail.

  Chester Kent : Sorry, dear, better get used to it.

  Nan Prescott : She is used to it.

• Vivian Rich : You said you'd marry me and you're going to marry me!

• Nan Prescott : [on the phone]  Hello?

  Vivian Rich : Who's speaking? Nan?

  Nan Prescott : Nobody else. I wouldn't think of waking him. He's sleeping. And so was I when you called.

• Vivian Rich : Listen, you silly-looking baboon, who do you think you're running around? Some little punk from the sticks?

  Chester Kent : What's this?

  Vivian Rich : I wrote the book and I know all the answers.