Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)

Walter Catlett: Gus

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• Gus : I couldn't move if I wanted to. I believe I broke my back.

  Fay - the Fan Dancer : Yeah and I broke two ribs and eight commandments.

• Fay - the Fan Dancer : Gus, this is what I call parkin' the body in a tub of butter.

  Gus : You said it, baby. You said it.

• Gus : Don't forget, those birds are certainly gonna pay for that crack up last night.

  Fay - the Fan Dancer : It's just our rotten luck that we didn't get hurt.

  Gus : Well, if I hadn't have been so excited I would have at least had the presence of mind to give you a kick in the face.

  Fay - the Fan Dancer : Oh, yeah?

• Gus : We better get to them quick. Gus don't know anything about the Navy.

  Wally Richards : Well, any old port in the storm.

  Gus : Yeah, but the only port that that guy knows anything about, it comes in a bottle.

• Aunt Jane Madison : I'm glad of this chance of a moment alone with you. I've got something to show you. Now I bet you can't guess what I have in this box. I'll give you a hint. I bought it in Paris.

  Gus : Postcards?

  [wink] 

• Gus : Come on, Toots. Watch your sea legs.

• Gus : [Aunt Jane showing a diamond bracelet]  Blow the man down, lady, that certainly is a cargo of ice.

  Aunt Jane Madison : Do you think your baby will like it?

  Gus : Do I think my baby'll like it? Woah, when she see's that, she'll do nip-ups!

  Aunt Jane Madison : Nip-ups?

• Wally Richards : I told her there was insanity in your family.

  Gus : You did? Well, some call it madness, but I call it love.

  Steven 'Steve' Brewster : What did she say?

  Wally Richards : She pooh-poohed the idea.

  Gus : Why certainly. Why should she think I'm a nut? She hardly knows me.

• Gus : Tootsie, it's a lily.

• Gus : What's this?

  Martha - the Housekeeper : Caviar.

  Gus : Cavio?

  [takes a bite, grimaces] 

  Gus : Bird shot with hair oil.

• Aunt Jane Madison : The dear child, is accomplished, isn't she?

  Gus : On of couple of cocktails, Mrs. Madison, when she's really wha you call 'accomplished', she don't use no fans.