City for Conquest (1940)

Ann Sheridan: Peggy Nash

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• Peggy Nash : You know, Danny, someday I'd love to take a long ocean trip.

  Danny Kenny : We can do that on our honeymoon. We can take a cruise down to Atlantic City. Eh, I think I can get the boss to give me a week off.

  Peggy Nash : No, no. I mean far away. Europe... South America... traveling on big ships. Seeing the world from a front seat. Oh, Danny, if I'm successful, I can go anywhere.

  Danny Kenny : Aw, get off that express and take a local.

• Peggy Nash : Danny, I just know I could be a great dancer. Maybe... maybe even up there someday up on Broadway in a big show. My name in bright lights.

  Danny Kenny : What do you want that for? We can be happy together without all that noise and fancy stuff.

  Peggy Nash : Together?

  Danny Kenny : Yeah, sure. Married. Why not?

  Peggy Nash : Well, I wasn't exactly thinking about that just yet.

• Peggy Nash : Danny, sometimes I don't understand you. Everybody in New York wants to do something... be somebody. Except you.

  Danny Kenny : Aw, I just want to be happy.

  Peggy Nash : But you've got to have ambition. You can't drive around this town on one foot. You've got to run like the rest or you'll be left behind.

  Danny Kenny : I didn't know you wanted it, Peggy. I'd do anything, ya know, if you just told me you wanted it.

  Peggy Nash : Oh, Danny, I guess we want different things.

  Danny Kenny : Yeah, maybe you're right.

• Murray Burns : [Dancing]  I don't mind saying, kid, you're a natural. You sure can spiel. And believe you me, I've tripped the light fantastic with only the best.

  Peggy Nash : Well, thank you, Mr. Burns. Of course, I'm a little nervous now. I've never before had a partner like you.

  Murray Burns : I figured. Sure, but that's okay. You'll get over that nervous feeling.

  [They do a dance move] 

  Murray Burns : That's the idea. You'll follow me like a ghost, kid.

• Peggy Nash : Oh, Danny. I'm so happy. It's like... like running through a dark alley and suddenly finding your way in warm sunlight.

• Peggy Nash : [Crying]  Please leave me alone. Why did you have to come here now?

  Danny Kenny : Because I was crazy to see ya. I wouldn't hurt you, Peggy. I'd cut my arm off first.

• Peggy Nash : Scotty! Scotty, where's Danny? Is he all right?

  Scotty MacPherson : Yes, he's all right.

  Peggy Nash : Well, can I see him, Scotty? He's in there, isn't he?

  Scotty MacPherson : Yes, he's in there, flat on his back. And you put him there. Only you, not Cannonball Wales, because Danny never would have fought this fight. He took a worse licking from you than he ever took from Cannonball Wales.

  Peggy Nash : Well, I've got to see him. You can't stop me. You've got to let me in.

  Scotty MacPherson : Now, just a minute, Peggy. I'm gonna tell you something, and I'm not gonna pull any punches. I've seen you give that boy there the rawest deal a woman ever gave a man, and I'm not gonna let you do it again. I'm not gonna let you go in there and hold his hand, and say hello for a while, and then break his heart with another runner.

  Peggy Nash : No, no, I'm all through with that. Please, you've got let me in. I wouldn't do anything to hurt him.

  Scotty MacPherson : You bet your sweet life you won't. You've done all you're going to do to him.

  Peggy Nash : But, Scotty, you don't understand.

  Scotty MacPherson : I understand well enough to know you're no good for him and he's no good for you, because, well, never mind, he's no good for you. Now try to get that through your head.

• Murray Burns : How about it, baby? Wanna try the contest? We'll show 'em some real steppin'.

  Peggy Nash : That'd be wonderful, but I ought to ask Danny first.

  Murray Burns : What's that mug got, a mortgage on ya? Just relax, kid. That cup's in the bag.

• Peggy Nash : You know, Gladys, it's funny. After all the places I've been, things I've done, I've just moved across town, that's all. From East Side to West Side. You look out and see the same back alleys, the same fire escapes, the same clotheslines. I'm back just where I started.

  Gladys : Wished I was back where I started, baby, with a wonderful guy named Jake Smith right over in Jersey City. He was just a grease monkey in a junkyard garage. He only made 20 bucks a week, but he was great on this thing called love. I was a dizzy dope. I was gonna burn up the world. I got burned myself. Ever watch a moth fly in the flame? Can't stop 'em till their wings burn off. Believe you me, if Jake would take me back now, l'd crawl on my knees right over to Jersey City, so help me. We girls never get wise until it's too late.