Little Miss Broadway (1938)

George Murphy: Roger Wendling

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• Betsy Brown : If you're looking for Miss Wendling, she isn't home. I'm waiting for her too, on important business.

  Roger Wendling : Maybe if it's very important, I might put in a good word for you.

  Betsy Brown : Oh! do you know Miss Wendling?

  Roger Wendling : Oh, yes, very well. You see, she's my aunt.

  Betsy Brown : She is? Well, say! Would you give her this

  [handing him a child's piggy bank] 

  Betsy Brown : and tell her it's on account of the rent for the hotel?

  Roger Wendling : The hotel? What hotel?

  Betsy Brown : Next door.

  Roger Wendling : Whom shall I say this is from?

  Betsy Brown : From Betsy. No, from Pop, Mr. Shea.

• Betsy Brown : I used to be an orphan before Pop adopted me.

  Roger Wendling : That is a coincidence, you know, I used to be an orphan myself!

  Betsy Brown : It's too bad we weren't orphans at the same time. We could've had lots of fun together!

• Roger Wendling : This young lady wants to give you money to pay the rent on the hotel.

  Sarah Wendling : Nonsense! So you've gone in for social service, have you?

  Roger Wendling : Not exactly, Aunt Sarah, I just met an acquaintance.

  Betsy Brown : There's almost five dollars in here, and I'm sure Pop will have the rest for you very soon.

  Willoughby Wendling : Bless my soul!

  Sarah Wendling : Keep your soul out of this. You will please get rid of this child.

  Roger Wendling : But Aunt Sarah...

  Sarah Wendling : If those people next door think they can play on my sympathy like this, they are greatly mistaken. I'll have my rent, all of it, or out they go.

• William J. 'Pop' Shea : Well, Mr. Wendling, I can't possibly raise the money in five days.

  Roger Wendling : Well, Mr. Shea, I was going to make a suggestion before your daughter so graciously knighted me. I was going to suggest that perhaps I could lend you the twenty-five hundred. Why not?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : You'd lend...? Thanks a million!

  Betsy Brown : Thanks TWO million- one for me!

  Barbara Shea : I'm sorry, but we can't accept your generous offer.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Why not, Barbara?

  Barbara Shea : Because I don't know how we'd be able to pay it back, and we're not going to be at the mercy of some spiteful old moneybag who calls us a lot of riffraff!

• Betsy Brown : Barbara is awful smart. She reads great big books when she's not helping Pop run the hotel.

  Roger Wendling : She does?

  Betsy Brown : Yes, she told me she's studying how not to be an actress.

  Roger Wendling : I see. Well, does she have any boyfriends?

  Betsy Brown : Oh, yes, lots of them. There's Ole, the Martins, Jimmy and his Jazz Bandits...

  Roger Wendling : No, I mean someone who takes her out to dinner. A sweetheart?

  Betsy Brown : Oh, no. I guess she's just an old maid, like I was before you came along.

• 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!

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, I've come here to tell you to let this nephew of mine alone. You let him pay your rent for you, didn't you?

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah!

  Barbara Shea : I don't have to listen to this!

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah, that was uncalled for, unkind, and untrue!

  Betsy Brown : Uncle Roger didn't give us any money! We got it from - from someone else.

  Sarah Wendling : So it's Uncle Roger now, is it? Is Miss Shea your mother?

  Betsy Brown : Practically.

  Roger Wendling : Betsy is Mr. Shea's adopted child.

  Sarah Wendling : Adopted, eh? So they brought her into this wholesome atmosphere, nice place for a child. Why, she's using her as a decoy, and you don't you have the sense to realize it!

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, give your father a message from me that he's being disposessed.

  Barbara Shea : Oh, you can't!

  Sarah Wendling : I'm tearing the hotel down.

  Barbara Shea : But he paid his rent!

  Sarah Wendling : He's violated his lease by having all sorts of animals on the premises. He'll save himself a lot of trouble by getting right out.

  Roger Wendling : I'll have something to say about this.

  Sarah Wendling : I'm afraid you will not, as our attorney will inform you. Furthermore, Roger, if you continue your association with this woman...

  Roger Wendling : Continue it? I was just trying to get her to make it permanent!

• Roger Wendling : It's my property and my money just as much as it is hers, and trustee or no trustee, she's got to give it to me.

  Willoughby Wendling : Did you ask her?

  Roger Wendling : I asked her for the hotel and fifteen hundred dollars, just enough to rent a theater and back a show to give those poor devils a chance to earn a living for themselves.

• 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!