My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Bob Hope: Larry Haines

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Quotes 

• Larry Haines : "Is that your real hair or did you scalp an angel?"

• Larry Haines : Hey, what's this 'Flip and Nip', this 'Floppy Louie' stuff?

  Karen Bentley : No questions please. I'm being followed by two men in black.

  Larry Haines : You sure you don't mean two men in white?

• Larry Haines : [Trying to get away from Karen]  Taxi! A thin taxi for one!

  Karen Bentley : Larry! Larry! You have 3 hours between trains. Wouldn't you like to go past my apartment house and drop me off?

  Larry Haines : Drop you off? I sure would. How many stories is it?

• [Plane engine sputtering] 

  Larry Haines : What's that?

  Karen Bentley : It isn't moving properly. There's not enough gas to clean a doily.

  Larry Haines : Oh, that's fine. That's great! That means we're going to be stuck up here where everybody can see us.

  [Screaming as plane dives] 

• Larry Haines : I gotta send a wire to Nat Burton. I gotta tell him to get us a lawyer to straighten out this murder business.

  Karen Bentley : Who's Nat Burton?

  Larry Haines : He's my agent.

  Karen Bentley : Do you think he'll help?

  Larry Haines : He'd better. If I get the electric chair, he gets 10% of the current.

• Larry Haines : Lady, if I'm not out of that door in 2 seconds flat, my name's not Larry Haines!

  [Larry opens the door, sees a knife fly into the wood, and closes the door] 

  Larry Haines : [holding his hand out to Karen]  Meet John Doe!

• [Larry switches on the radio] 

  Bob Hope : [on radio]  How d'ya do, ladies and gentlemen, this is Bob Hope, the Pepsodent Kid, still hanging on by your teeth. And I'm here to tell you that I -

  [Larry switches off radio] 

  Larry Haines : I can't stand that guy.

• [staging a furious argument] 

  Larry Haines : So, I'm a muckfritchetous snitdrivel, am I?

  Karen Bentley : Yes, and you're also a scridgepodge, that's what you are!

• Larry Haines : [Impersonating a famed pediatrician before a crowd of mothers] 

  Mother Who Has a Girl of Nine : Dr. Higby, I have a girl of nine who won't listen to what's right. She always does what's wrong. What should I do?

  Larry Haines : Wait ten years, and if there's no improvement... send me her number.

• Larry Haines : [as they're attempting to escape in a small plane, which Karen is going to pilot]  Hey, you sure you know how to run this thing?

  Karen Bentley : Sure! My brother's a British ace.

  Larry Haines : Yeah, well, my uncle's a dogcatcher, but I can't bark.

• Karen Bentley : [surreptitiously]  There's no time to lose. Do you know what it feels like to be followed, hounded and watched every second?

  Larry Haines : Well I used to, but now I pay cash for everything.

  Karen Bentley : Look at me.

  Larry Haines : I'm looking.

  Karen Bentley : You've got to trust me.

  Larry Haines : I'm not through looking yet.

  Karen Bentley : You mustn't ask any questions.

  Larry Haines : I'm asking. I mean, I'm not asking.

  Karen Bentley : My name's Karen Bentley. I can't tell you any more.

  Larry Haines : My name's Larry Haines. There's no more to tell.

• Karen Bentley : Mr. Haines, you're not listening to me.

  Larry Haines : Yes, I am. I said every word you heard.

• Larry Haines : Say, you know honey: You and me could make music together. Right now I feel like the philharmonic.

• Larry Haines : Let's get out of here before my knees beat themselves to death.