Lady Be Good (1941)

Robert Young: Eddie Crane

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• Dixie Donegan : Would you mind if a girl wrote the words to your tune?

  Eddie Crane : Of course not. There's Dorothy Fields. She's one of the best in the business.

  Dixie Donegan : Well, could you get her?

  Eddie Crane : No. She's tied up.

• Eddie Crane : Gosh, Dixie.

  Dixie Donegan : Gosh, Eddie.

  Eddie Crane : By golly, that deserves a kiss.

• Eddie Crane : Well, the truth is, Dixie, that - well, it takes a woman to run things.

• Dixie Donegan : I wanna work, Eddie. I'm a worker. I can't stand this routine of bouncing red balloons in the air. But it's your idea of a merry-go-round, darling. So you ride on it.

  Eddie Crane : Oh, I get it. My balloons, *my* merry-go-round. As if you weren't having a good time yourself. If that isn't a typical feminine attitude, always making the man the heavy.

• Marilyn Marsh : [composing]  La-da-da-da, La-da-da-da, My one and only, I am so lonely, I can't believe that it's really you, Somehow it's just too good to be true, You are the sweetest, You are so lovely, So sweet and lovely, Oh, sweet and lovely

  Eddie Crane : Hey. "Oh, sweet and lovely."

  Marilyn Marsh : Oh, sweet and lovely, Can it be true, You are the one, Baby, be mine, Baby, be mine. Oh, sweet and lovely, Baby, be mine, Baby, be good, Lady, be good

  Eddie Crane : That's it. "Lady, be good"

  Marilyn Marsh : Oh, sweet and lovely, Lady, be good

  Eddie Crane : Yeah!

  Marilyn Marsh : Oh, sweet and lovely, Lady, be good, Oh, lady, be good, to me. How's that? I am so awfully, Misunderstood, So, lady, be good, to me. Oh, I don't know what to say now? Oh, please have some pity. Pity, pity, pity. What rhymes with pity?

  Eddie Crane : Eh, kitty, ditty, witty, city.

  Marilyn Marsh : City. Oh, please have some pity, I'm all alone in this big city. Wait a minute. I got myself all alone now. I'm just a lonesome, Babe in the wood, So lady, be good to me.

  Eddie Crane : Oh, honey, that's swell!

• Eddie Crane : I guess you both must think I'm kind of daffy.

  Marilyn Marsh : You want the truth?

  Eddie Crane : What?

  Marilyn Marsh : You are.

  Eddie Crane : Who's daffy?

  Marilyn Marsh : You are.

• Eddie Crane : In this business you've gotta have a hookup, a team. There's no sense in writing a tune then peddling it like a hot fur coat from one guy to another hoping to get a fluke hit. You've gotta work with somebody until you've built a style and a quality that's recognizable. Look at George Gershwin. He had his brother Ira. There's Rodgers and Hart, Kern and Hammerstein. Oh, what's the use? There are a dozen more. They work together. One helps the other and they go places.

• Eddie Crane : Well, you know I'd never stand in the way of what you wanna do.

  Dixie Donegan : That's white of you, Eddie.

• Eddie Crane : Say, Dixie, wasn't it a swell party? Everybody said they couldn't have had a better time. Did you meet that real live countess?

  Dixie Donegan : You mean the lady with the slight mustache?

• Eddie Crane : Hey, don't throw that away. It's the first eight bars of a new tune.

  Dixie Donegan : New? It's been hanging around here for over a year.

  Eddie Crane : I know, but I was gonna work on it tomorrow.

  Dixie Donegan : Oh, yeah, mañana.

  Eddie Crane : Don't throw away anything with notes on it. It might go down in history.

  Dixie Donegan : Mm-hm. You and Beethoven.

• Dixie Donegan : Oh, Eddie, I don't feel like it. I'm not in the mood.

  Eddie Crane : Oh, you can do it, kid. Get in there and slug. Come on, Dixie.

• Eddie Crane : Attagirl, baby, turn on the heat!

• Eddie Crane : It's swell, isn't it?

  Dixie Donegan : Oh, it's more than swell, darling.

• Eddie Crane : Darling, I can't stand it any longer. I'm going crazy living alone.

  Dixie Donegan : You won't have to anymore.

  Eddie Crane : Hey, wait a minute. We're not married.

  Dixie Donegan : Eddie? Will you do me a favor? Will you keep right on thinking we're not?