Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Edward Ellis: Pop Shea

Quotes 

• William J. 'Pop' Shea : Well, Mr. Wendling, I can't possibly raise the money in five days.

  Roger Wendling : Well, Mr. Shea, I was going to make a suggestion before your daughter so graciously knighted me. I was going to suggest that perhaps I could lend you the twenty-five hundred. Why not?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : You'd lend...? Thanks a million!

  Betsy Brown : Thanks TWO million- one for me!

  Barbara Shea : I'm sorry, but we can't accept your generous offer.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Why not, Barbara?

  Barbara Shea : Because I don't know how we'd be able to pay it back, and we're not going to be at the mercy of some spiteful old moneybag who calls us a lot of riffraff!

• Jimmy Clayton : Eight bucks from the Tri-State Field and five from the Downs. Now how much we short?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : About twenty-one hundred.

  Jimmy Clayton : National debt! I thought I was bringing home the bacon.

  Flossie : And you laid an egg!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Thanks just the same. You're a great guy, Jimmy.

  Flossie : That goes for me too, bubble-brain.

  Jimmy Clayton : Is that straight from the balcony, Juliet? Must be my streamline personality. Guess I ain't as bad as I look, eh?

  Flossie : You couldn't be!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : That does it! From now on whenever you talk to me, you can start the conversation with goodbye!

• William J. 'Pop' Shea : I hope this check don't bounce.

  Roger Wendling : I don't think it will.

  Jimmy Clayton : Pop, here's twenty-five bucks more!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : It's all right, Jimmy, I got it! I got the twenty-one hundred!

  Jimmy Clayton : What? Just when we made the supreme sacrifice! Look!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : What happened?

  Jimmy Clayton : We done a striptease in a pawn shop!

• Jimmy Clayton : What is it, Pop?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : It's for Betsy. Perhaps you could come back tomorrow morning?

  Detective : Sorry, old man, I don't like this any more than you do, but I got to take her back tonight.

  Jimmy Clayton : But you can't take Betsy back to the orphan asylum! Know why? 'Cause Betsy ain't here! She's down south in dear old Dixie.

  Flossie : Sure, visiting with my folks.

  Jimmy Clayton : Oh, I wish I was in Dixie! Away, away!

  Detective : Hey, are you crazy?

  Jimmy Clayton : Yeah! Uh, no! You see, we don't want to lose Betsy. That's why I lied to you. She's up in her room.

• Sarah Wendling : Officer, there's the child you're after.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : You let her alone!

  Detective : Now, just a minute...

  Betsy Brown : Don't you hurt Pop! Don't you dare hurt Pop!

  Detective : We're not hurting anyone, little girl. There's no need to get excited, but we've got orders to pick her up.

  Betsy Brown : No, no! I want to stay with Pop!

  Detective : Well, I don't blame you, but you come along with us, and your pop will straighten things out later.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : I'm afraid you'll have to go with them, Betsy.

  Betsy Brown : But I don't want to go back to the orphanage! I want to stay with you!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Now, don't you cry. Soon I'll come see you, and I'll get you out again.