Meet the Baron (1933)

Edna May Oliver: Dean Primrose

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Quotes 

• Dean Primrose : [on the phone]  Somethings wrong with the showers. The water's off. Hurry! These poor girls are standing around here without any clothes on.

  Head Janitor : We'll be right up!

• Dean Primrose : Stop!

  Head Janitor : What's the matter?

  Dean Primrose : You can't go in there.

  Moe , Larry , Curly : Aaw...

  Head Janitor : We can't, eh? She don't know us.

  Dean Primrose : Apparently, you don't know me. I'm the dean, you hear me? The dean, dean, dean!

  Moe , Larry , Curly : You're a better man than I am, Gunga Dean!

  [the head janitor gives his assistants a sweeping slap across their faces after the "Gunga Din" pun] 

• Dean Primrose : You nincompoop! You idiot! You good-for-nothing lout! I want you to know that I disapprove of you wholeheartedly.

  Head Janitor : What's this squawk?

  Dean Primrose : You blockhead!

• Dean Primrose : Will you get to those pipes.

  Head Janitor , Larry , Curly , Moe : Will we!

• Dean Primrose : Now, let me see your little hands get busy!

• Dean Primrose : We've never had any scandal in dear old Cuddle! That is, nothing that wouldn't happen in any girl's school.

• Dean Primrose : All you have to do my dear Mr. McGoo is have the Baron show his credentials.

  Joe McGoo - the Favorite 'Schnozzle' of the Screen : Credentials! Did Columbus have to show his credentials when he landed on Plymouth Rock and says, "Lafayette, we are here?" Did Washington have to show his credentials at Valley Frog, when he put them Union soldiers back to work? Well, what's good enough for them fellas is good enough for me and vice-a-versa!

• Dean Primrose : You worm! You blaggard! You contemptible something. Pack your things and get out of here. And take your manager with you. Riffraff.

• Dean Primrose : [separating a blindfolded Curly from a girl whose hands he took by mistake]  The pipes are there.

  Curly : Ohh, it's the pipes that need handling! Shucks...