The Wild Party (1975)

Raquel Welch: Queenie

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• Queenie : I remember this one photo I took, in a dress with clusters of lemons on the skirt and this great big feather hat. I must have sent that photo to every director and producer in this town. I waited by the phone for days. Nothing ever happened.

• Jackie : [as Queenie makes a belated entrance]  Hey Queenie, I haven't seen your beautiful face all night. Where have you been hiding?

  Queenie : [shrugs] 

  Jackie : How about doing a little number for us, Queenie?

  Queenie : Nah, Jackie, I ain't danced in years. You know that!

  Phil D'Armano : Hey, Queenie, how about "Singapore Sally?" Me and Oskie know it!

  Madeline True : [as the crowd erupts into encouragement]  Jackie! Make her do it, Jackie!

  Jackie : Come on Queenie! You're beautiful, come on!

  Queenie : I'm a little rusty, but Singapore Sally it is.

  [Jackie takes her drink, two men in front of Queenie kneel down and Queenie uses them as a footstool to climb onto the piano] 

• Queenie : I'm a little rusty. But "Singapore Sally" it is.

  [singing] 

  Queenie : Singapore Sally, Lived in an alley, Down by Maleno Bay, The story of her life, Her trouble and her strife, She happened to tell me one day, Sing, sing, Singapore Sally, Life gave her quite a - shove, Sing, sing, Singapore Sally, She was waiting for her long lost love. Sally was stuck, On a sailor named chuck, A stoker who worked on an oiler, His face was kind of dumb, And manner kind of glum, But, she liked the way he stoked her boiler...

• [Dale is leading Queenie out to the garden to dance, James catches Queenie and pulls her aside] 

  Dale Sword : For God's sakes, Queenie, you're asking for trouble, don't you know that?

  Queenie : [She places her finger on his mouth]  Oh hush, honey, Queenie knows what she's doing.

  Dale Sword : She's got my name in her little book for this dance, old man. You can have the next one.

  James Morrison : I just want to talk to her.

  Dale Sword : My God, look at the glint in his eye! En garde, monsieur! En garde!

• Queenie : Now get outta here, Romeo, I gotta put on my diamonds!

• Queenie : [Talking about her first audition in Vaudeville]  In fact, I was starving. You can't believe that, can you?

  Dale Sword : [smiling]  No, no I can't believe there wasn't always someone looking after you.

• Queenie : Jolly, listen, I think it's a swell picture. I think it's the best thing you've ever...

  Jolly Grimm : You think? Who gives a flying fart what you think? Murchison's the guy with the moolah.

  Queenie : Now, wait a minute. Kreutzer's still here.

  Jolly Grimm : She's gonna start giving me advice. She's gonna start telling *me* about the picture business. I'm not interested in what you *think*. You're supposed to look good. That's all! Now keep that big, fat trap of yours shut. Do you understand?

• Queenie : [lying on the bed, raising her head and whining]  Jolly, love! Queenie is so tired! Pour out a cup of coffee for me?

  Jolly Grimm : [blearily]  Get it yourself!

  Queenie : Jol-ly! Queenie is so tired!

  Jolly Grimm : Who do you think you are? The Queen of Sheba?

• Jolly Grimm : Leading me on like a two-bit whore!

  [strikes Queenie] 

  Queenie : Oh! You tryin' to rough me up? You touch me again and I'll brain you, you dirty bastard!

  Jolly Grimm : Easy! Easy, Sweetie.

• Queenie : Lay off me, you big palooka.

• Queenie : Take it easy on him today. He's kind of all jazzed up.

• James Morrison : What's that mark on your face? That's a bruise, Queenie.

  Queenie : It kind of brings a bloom to my cheek, don't you think?

  James Morrison : I can't stand it when he belts you around like that. Queenie, why do you take it? I mean, what do you get out of it?

• Jolly Grimm : We're late. Come on, let's go.

  Queenie : Tex could take me by the beauty parlor after he drops you, okay? Beauty parlor.

  Jolly Grimm : With that face?

  [to Jimmy] 

  Jolly Grimm : She must have a thing for the sissy hairdresser.

• James Morrison : The way he beats up on you, Queenie.

  Queenie : But he didn't used to be like that. He was always kind of funny about, you know, the sex stuff. But that didn't matter. Especially at first. He didn't get so violent then. It was only later, when the studios didn't want to back his pictures anymore. And he started boozing real heavy. Then it got bad.

  James Morrison : It's been bad as long as I've known you.

• Queenie : Jimmy, what do you see? A body. A female body. Couple of boobies, legs, fine fanny. That's all I was before I met Jolly Grimm. You know, when I danced in vaudeville, I wasn't too nifty in the talent department; but, I got by, mostly on this good equipment. But when Jolly found me, gosh, that was different. He was a big star and all that. Stepping out with Jolly. All the waiters bowing and scraping, everybody staring at us. Me waving to all my friends. I loved it. I wouldn't say I didn't. But then, it got to be something more. What it was, Jimmy, is he was the first guy who ever asked me what I thought.

• Queenie : I've been through hell, I guess. I know I should be asking myself what I'm heading for. What all this is leading to?

• Queenie : Please don't.

  Dale Sword : I'm sorry. You must think that I'm a typical Hollywood masher. Would you like me to leave?

  Queenie : No. I think you're really very nice.