The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Ralph Cooper: Duke Davis

Quotes 

• Duke Davis : I'm here to introduce Doctor Dorando's Universal Elixir. The average adult - by adult, I mean, a person who has stopped growing at both ends and started in the middle...

• Duke Davis : I had a patient, come to me, a little fellow with a glass eye. He didn't tell me it was a glass eye, of course. It happened to come out - during the conversation.

• Duke Davis : Dr. Dorando put this man on a milk diet, until he was strong enough to take his medicine. And that man would be alive today if he hadn't of...

  Tonic Customer : Died!

  Duke Davis : Oh, no, my friend! If he hadn't held out the Saturday night's paycheck on his wife.

• Doc Dorando : That vision of prophecy was mine, when we encountered each other only a short year or so ago. Ah, how time has flown on golden wings. And tonight, we have reached the pinnacle of our success.

  Duke Davis : That's a good line you sling, Doc.

• Duke Davis : I can cash in on this contract and I need the dough.

  Ethel Andrews : So, that's all I mean to you: dollars and cents. I don't think I ever knew you until now. The laughs on me, I guess.

• Duke Davis : Say, I've got a brand new act.

  Ed. Lake : Oh, sure, I know. New gags. Classy songs. Swell wardrobe. I hear that every day. I know it by heart. It's got whiskers on it.

• Duke Davis : How's it shapin' up to you, Sam?

  Sam, the Stage Manager : It's a lily!

• Duke Davis : You don't have to say it Mr. Mason. I know. The show did a nose dive.

  Mason : The breaks of our game, my boy.

  Duke Davis : But, I know where it's weak! Say, a couple of new specialties and tighten up on that comedy - why, I can doctor up this show in two shakes of a pawn broker's head.

• Duke Davis : I've got more ideas than a clock has ticks.

• Duke Davis : Sufferin' catfish, Doc, the place is on fire!

• Duke Davis : Friends, do you realize, that the death rate on stomach trouble a year, averages one death per person.

• Duke Davis : Brothers, you're making it tough on me. The only bottles I have left are those set aside for our next town, Centreville.

• Duke Davis : [singing]  Harlem is harmony, Life is a rhapsody, With a tune you can sing, There's a song in everything, Harlem is harmony, Harlem is livin' good, Don't have to knock on wood, When you seem to be wrong, Find a friendship in a song, Harlem is harmony...

• Duke Davis : [singing]  Harlem is harmony, Love is a melody, When my gal looks at me, Gets my Hallelujah key, Harlem is harmony...