Lady Be Good (1941)

Ann Sothern: Dixie Donegan

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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.

• Dixie Donegan : Oh, I know it's ridiculous for me to think that you could think that I could write some words; but, the melody kept saying the words over and over all the time while you were playing and before I knew it, I had a song.

• Eddie Crane : Gosh, Dixie.

  Dixie Donegan : Gosh, Eddie.

  Eddie Crane : By golly, that deserves a kiss.

• 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.

• Dixie Donegan : Everybody loves a love song in Spring.

• Dixie Donegan : Darling, any calls for me?

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

• Max Milton : What matters to us is that they've given the world another great song. And when you hear Dixie sing it, I think you'll feel as I do: that this isn't just another work by two songwriters. It's as if they had a hundred million collaborators. The Americans who feel in their hearts what Eddie and Dixie have written so beautifully in their song. I refer to the tender and affectionate salute to a lost city. "The Last Time I Saw Paris."

  Dixie Donegan : [singing]  A lady known as Paris, Romantic and charming, Has left her old companions, And faded from view, Lonely men with lonely eyes, Are seeking her in vain, Her streets are where they were, But there's no sign of her, She has left The Seine, The last time I saw Paris, Her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart In every street café, The last time saw Paris...

• Dixie Donegan : What a spot to be in. A woman who doesn't dare marry her own husband.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• Dixie Donegan : [singing]  No matter how they change her, I'll remember her that way.

• 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?