Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Clayton

Quotes 

• Jimmy Clayton : Eight bucks from the Tri-State Field and five from the Downs. Now how much we short?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : About twenty-one hundred.

  Jimmy Clayton : National debt! I thought I was bringing home the bacon.

  Flossie : And you laid an egg!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Thanks just the same. You're a great guy, Jimmy.

  Flossie : That goes for me too, bubble-brain.

  Jimmy Clayton : Is that straight from the balcony, Juliet? Must be my streamline personality. Guess I ain't as bad as I look, eh?

  Flossie : You couldn't be!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : That does it! From now on whenever you talk to me, you can start the conversation with goodbye!

• William J. 'Pop' Shea : I hope this check don't bounce.

  Roger Wendling : I don't think it will.

  Jimmy Clayton : Pop, here's twenty-five bucks more!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : It's all right, Jimmy, I got it! I got the twenty-one hundred!

  Jimmy Clayton : What? Just when we made the supreme sacrifice! Look!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : What happened?

  Jimmy Clayton : We done a striptease in a pawn shop!

• Jimmy Clayton : What is it, Pop?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : It's for Betsy. Perhaps you could come back tomorrow morning?

  Detective : Sorry, old man, I don't like this any more than you do, but I got to take her back tonight.

  Jimmy Clayton : But you can't take Betsy back to the orphan asylum! Know why? 'Cause Betsy ain't here! She's down south in dear old Dixie.

  Flossie : Sure, visiting with my folks.

  Jimmy Clayton : Oh, I wish I was in Dixie! Away, away!

  Detective : Hey, are you crazy?

  Jimmy Clayton : Yeah! Uh, no! You see, we don't want to lose Betsy. That's why I lied to you. She's up in her room.

• Jimmy Clayton : You call this hospitality? I'll take it up with Emily Post!

• Perry : Mr. Wendling, isn't it true that you intend to use this money to put on a Broadway show?

  Roger Wendling : A small portion of it, yes.

  Perry : And you intend to put this show on with actors living at the Hotel Variety?

  Roger Wendling : That's right.

  Perry : Isn't it probable that this Broadway venture of yours may turn out to be a failure? Or in the Broadway vernacular, a flop?

  Jimmy Clayton : What? With me and the band? I object!