Just Around the Corner (1938)

Charles Farrell: Jeff Hale

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Quotes 

• Jeff Hale : You remember how hard I used to work before you went away to school? I was always planning buildings and putting them up. We hardly had any time at all to be together.

  Penny Hale : And you were tired all the time.

  Jeff Hale : That wasn't so good, was it? But it made money. We had money to live in a penthouse and have a car. But now it's awful hard to get jobs.

• Lola : He wouldn't even listen to what you had to say? Honestly, darling, even if he is my own uncle ...

  Jeff Hale : You can't call him anything that I haven't.

  Lola : I know what we can do.

  Jeff Hale : Oh, let's just forget about it.

  Lola : Oh, so you're quitting?

  Jeff Hale : I'm not qutting, but what else can I do?

  Lola : Listen, Jeff. I've been handling him since I was a little girl, and I've always gotten what I wanted. You won't do any good trying to fight him. You've got to go around him.

• Penny Hale : Why is everything so mixed up?

  Jeff Hale : Well, maybe this picture will help you understand.

  [showing her a political cartoon of Uncle Sam in the newspaper] 

  Jeff Hale : You see all these people? They're all pulling on this one poor fellow.

  Penny Hale : What has he done?

  Jeff Hale : He's done everything he can, and it still isn't enough. He gives and he gives, and he tries to make everything right.

  Penny Hale : Is he the president?

  Jeff Hale : He's greater than the president. He's the most important man in the whole country, maybe in the world.

  Penny Hale : Why doesn't somebody try to help Uncle Sam instead of pulling on him?

  Jeff Hale : Lots of us try.

• Samuel G. Henshaw : Did you or did you not tell this child that I was responsible for the slump? And that I was responsible for business going to the dogs, for your troubles, my troubles, everyone's troubles? Including the blessed fact that you have to go away somewhere for two years!

  Jeff Hale : Certainly not!

  Penny Hale : Why, Daddy, didn't you say that when Uncle Sam got in trouble, the people got scared, and when the people got scared, business got bad, and when business got bad, there was a slump, and when that happened, nobody built any buildings?

  Jeff Hale : Yes, but -

  Penny Hale : Didn't you say that everyone ought to get together and help Uncle Sam instead of pulling on him?

  Jeff Hale : Yes, dear, but let's get back to Mr. Henshaw here.

  Penny Hale : But I am back to him. He's Uncle Sam, isn't he?

  Jeff Hale : Him?

  Samuel G. Henshaw : Me?

  Samuel G. Henshaw , Jeff Hale : Uncle Sam?