Little Miss Marker (1934)

Dorothy Dell: Bangles Carson

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• Bangles Carson : [reading the newspaper]  Listen to this. "Bets twenty dollars on losing horse, then takes life."

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : It's the kid's father.

  Big Steve Halloway : Bumped himself off, did he?

  Bangles Carson : It tells about the kid and everything.

• Bangles Carson : Looking for something?

  Detective Reardon : Yeah. A kid.

  Bangles Carson : Another kid get lost?

  Detective Reardon : No, it's the same kid. One of those orphan societies is on our necks. You know, afraid she might have fallen into the hands of the wrong people. Sorrowful, you mind if I take a run up to that new apartment of yours?

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : What for?

  Detective Reardon : You know, just for the record.

• Bangles Carson : Hiya, Tightwad.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Hello, Golddigger.

• Bangles Carson : You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves, tossing that kid around like she was a rubber ball.

• Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : You are Lady Guinevere.

  Doc Chesley : King Arthur's Lady Guinevere?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : You know about it, too?

  Doc Chesley : Yes.

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Did you ever break a lance for a lady fair?

  Doc Chesley : Not recently. Who is Sir Gallahad, Marky?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : He's the best of all. I haven't seen him around here. But I know who you are.

  Doc Chesley : Yes?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : You are the kind keeper.

  Bangles Carson : The kind keeper of what, Marky?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Of the charger. The horse the princess rides.

  Bangles Carson : Who told you about all this?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : My mommy used to read to me about King Arthur.

  Bangles Carson : Where is your mother, Marky?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : My mommy got awfully tired, and went away. She's never coming back anymore.

• Big Steve Halloway : Now get this, honey, no playing around. You keep your eye on her, Sorrowful.

  Bangles Carson : Notice how much he trusts me. Well, Tightwad, you're my watchman.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : You're going to need watching, Golddigger.

  Bangles Carson : If you want to be kept busy, I can arrange it.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : I'm already busy playing nursemaid to one doll.

  Bangles Carson : I hear you like it so well you bought a new apartment for the kid.

• Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Why'd you bring him here?

  Bangles Carson : You're my watchman.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : You need a watchman. Big Steve is hardly out of town, and you step out with a good-time Charlie.

• Bangles Carson : Steve phoned four times last night between one and five this morning.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : When Steve finds out you stayed the night at my place -

  Bangles Carson : Oh, I phoned him a little while ago. I told him I had the kid here, and shut off the phone.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Oh, you handed him a line?

  Bangles Carson : Yeah. I was afraid he'd put the slug on you.

• Bangles Carson : [about Marky]  Well, you can't leave her here.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Afraid of the cops?

  Bangles Carson : No, I'm afraid of the kid. I don't want her here. I'm not going sappy over her! I won't, see!

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : You're already sappy over her.

  Bangles Carson : But you're not?

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : No, she's just something I can't get rid of, because she's tangled up in a race deal.

  Bangles Carson : She wasn't tangled up in a deal the first night you got her. You could've unloaded her then!

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : You didn't stage no riot when she busted up your song in a night club!

  Bangles Carson : You start reading about King Arthur to her!

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Yeah, and you take her out and buy her a lot of new clothes!

  Bangles Carson : And you sit still for the bite without even being chloroformed!

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : All right, I did pay! Her clothes were falling off her.

• Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Trying to hand me mush!

  Bangles Carson : Don't you like it?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : No!

  Bangles Carson : Say, "No, thank you." Say it like this: "No, thank you, Bangles. I don't care for any."

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : What for?

  Bangles Carson : Well, you used to say "thank you" and "no, thank you."

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : I used to be a sissy.

  Bangles Carson : Now where did you get that?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Ain't telling! And I don't want no mush!

  Bangles Carson : Don't you like me anymore?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Well...

  Bangles Carson : You used to like me when I was Lady Guinevere.

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : [laughs]  There's no Lady Guinevere.

  Bangles Carson : Oh yes there is, dear. Just like there's a Charger.

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : There ain't no Charger.

  Bangles Carson : But you saw him.

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : They took him away.

• Bangles Carson : We jipped that kid, and now she's just a mug like us.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : What's wrong with us?

  Bangles Carson : When we first met her, she was a sweet kid. Nice people would've been glad to have her. Now she hasn't got a chance.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Because she's a little tough now?

  Bangles Carson : She's plenty tough now. They want kids that have been brought up right.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Who does?

  Bangles Carson : Nice people. You know, young married couples with no kids of their own.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Why don't you get nice and adopt her?

  Bangles Carson : Because I'm not a young married couple. You'd love to see her get into a good home, wouldn't you? Well, she won't, not unless we can change her back into the kid she was.

• Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : I've been crazy about you for a long time.

  Bangles Carson : Oh, everything is different. Maybe that's part of - of going sappy.

• Bangles Carson : Why aren't you asleep?

  Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker : Aw, lay off me.

• Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Using my place as a hideout from a Good Time Charlie.

  Bangles Carson : Aw, shut up.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Alright, take it on the lam.

  Bangles Carson : As soon as I get some clothes.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : You're wearing clothes.

  Bangles Carson : Not going out at this time a day with these clothes on.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : If you went home nights instead of hanging around...

  Bangles Carson : Maybe I could get home nights if you didn't go shout your head off and wake up kids.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : I wouldn't have to shout my head off if you stayed away.

  Bangles Carson : Oh it won't happen again. I'll give you plenty air.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : I'll take gallons of it.

  Bangles Carson : Better than that, I'll give you oceans of it.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : I'll take three oceans worth.

  Bangles Carson : You would, it's free.

• Bangles Carson : I sing myself to sleep.

  Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones : Yeah, your singin's like that.