Stage Door (1937)

Lucille Ball: Judith Canfield

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• Judy Canfield : Do you want a date?

  Jean Maitland : To some other lumberman?

  Judy Canfield : Am I supposed to apologize for being born in Seattle?

  Jean Maitland : Well, the last couple we went stepping with were made of lumber. Especially their feet.

  Judy Canfield : All right, all right, you can stay here and gorge yourself on lamb stew again. Hey, Pat, wanna...

  Jean Maitland : Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait! Is it for dinner?

  Judy Canfield : Yes!

  Jean Maitland : Well, why didn't you say so before you spoke. That lamb stew has got me counting sheep at night.

• Eve : It must have been counterfeit. There's no such thing as a fifty dollar bill.

  Judy Canfield : You know, I think she's as phony as that bill.

• Terry Randall : The trouble with you is you're all trying to be comics. Don't you ever take anything seriously?

  Judy Canfield : After you've sat around for a year trying to get a job, you won't take anything seriously either.

  Terry Randall : Well, do you have to just sit around and do nothing about it?

  Judy Canfield : Maybe it's in the blood. My grandfather sat around until he was 80.

  Terry Randall : Well, my grandfather didn't. And if he and a lot of others hadn't crossed the country in a covered wagon, there'd still be Indians living in Wichita.

  Eve : Who do you think's living there now?

• Kay Hamilton : Do you have appointments too?

  Judy Canfield : We're waiting for Randall. If she doesn't crack Powell's office by two o'clock, she's buying us lunch.

  Eve : We're starting off with caviar. Oh, not that small sturgeon kind; but, nice big whale caviar.

• Judy Canfield : She doesn't even know what a pheasant is.

  Linda Shaw : Naturally, there's a difference between pheasant and peasant.

  Jean Maitland : Oh, my friend wouldn't think of serving peasants.

  Linda Shaw : No, but he's willing to take them out once or twice.

• Judy Canfield : Well, at least you know there is such an animal. What'd he look like?

  Kay Hamilton : Like any other animal. He had on pants, tie and collar.

• Jean Maitland : I didn't like the way he looked at me.

  Annie : You should be glad he looked at you at all.

  Judy Canfield : Yeah.

  Jean Maitland : He kinda makes you feel like you ought to run home and put on a tin overcoat.

• Jean Maitland : He wasn't looking for an act, he was putting one on!

  Annie : You ought to stop at a filling station and get pumped up!

  Judy Canfield : Ah, she ain't exactly a flat, dearie, just a slow leak.

  Olga : If it's not food, it's men. Can't you talk about anything else?

  Judy Canfield : And what else is there?

• Eve : Looks like there's a new Queen Bee buzzing around the hive.

  Judy Canfield : Well, it seems to be the same King.

• Mary Lou : This will be my 35th performance as a spectator.

  Judy Canfield : Cheer up, Mary Lou. Someday the people on the stage will sit and watch the audience and you'll be a sensation.

• [first lines] 

  Judy Canfield : Do you have to do that?

• Judy Canfield : Girls, isn't he handsome? You know, you know some people do things like that for other people and other people do things like that for some people and I think you should do it. Don't you?

  Butch : Well, why don't you come in and get the meat sometime?

  Judy Canfield : Oh, I will!

• Miss Luther : It might interests you girls to know that all great actresses knew their Shakespeare.

  Footlights Club Resident : How 'bout their onions?

  Miss Luther : I fail to see what onions have to do with Shakespeare. If you'd listen to Miss Randall, you might learn something.

  Judy Canfield : I like Amos and Andy.