Lady Be Good (1941)

Eleanor Powell: Marilyn Marsh

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• Marilyn Marsh : Park Avenue was clustered around Eddie like flies around honey. Every phony in the phony 400.

• Mr. Blanton : Will you tell the court your occupation or profession?

  Marilyn Marsh : I'm a dancer.

• Dixie Donegan : Darling, any calls for me?

  Marilyn Marsh : Yeah, phone's been jangling like an ambulance.

• 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.

• Marilyn Marsh : Help me get into my things. I don't wanna get shot looking like this.

• Marilyn Marsh : Say, Red.

  Joe 'Red' Willet : Yes?

  Marilyn Marsh : Why don't you open that little door and fly back into the clock.

• Marilyn Marsh : Ohh Dixie, something awful has just happened. That was Eddie on the phone, he's got a gun and he's on his way over here.

  Dixie Donegan : A gun, what for?

  Marilyn Marsh : He's gonna shoot somebody - - probably you.

  Dixie Donegan : Me?

  Marilyn Marsh : Yes. Come on!

  Dixie Donegan : Marilyn, you didn't tell him about the ring?

  Marilyn Marsh : Well, I, I might have mentioned it, but I didn't know he was a killer!

  Dixie Donegan : [distressed]  Uh...

  Marilyn Marsh : Come on, Dixie, help me get into my things, I don't want to get shot looking like this.

• Joe 'Red' Willet : Eddie come up the hard way. When I plugged his first number 10 years ago, he didn't have a cot to sleep in. You can't blame him if he wants to eat caviar and go to Lady Triple Chin's house parties.

  Marilyn Marsh : I'm thinking of Dixie. It's tough on her.

  Joe 'Red' Willet : Well, it's like the gag: You don't run after a streetcar once you've caught it.

• Dixie Donegan : Don't forget, we have to be ready early tonight. We're going to Westchester.

  Marilyn Marsh : I'll jump right in the tub with the lilacs.

• Marilyn Marsh : Oh, so you don't like the hula, huh? Bet you can't do it.

  [Buttons hulas]