Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Jean Dixon: Ella

Quotes 

• Ella : Do the tropics always smell like this?

  [runs back to the woman whose hair has just burned] 

• Harry : How'd you do? I'm very glad to know both of you.

  Marguerite 'Maggie' King : Hello.

  Ella : You should be glad to know anyone.

• Ella : What's the matter? Don't you want the rest of your oysters?

  Harry : I don't want this one.

• Ella : If Maggie were on the stage, he'd be a stage-door Johnny.

• Ella : There's a guy, see, in California who don't care if she don't know anything. He wants to marry her! He's a - a cow baron or something. He's richer than Lucifer.

  Henri : Lucifer wasn't rich.

  Ella : What was he?

  Henri : Well, he was, em, what was he?

  Marguerite 'Maggie' King : Proud.

  Henri : Proud! Proud! There.

• Marguerite 'Maggie' King : Harry puts everything he's got into his piano playing.

  Ella : Everything?