Hollywood Party (1934)

Charles Butterworth: Harvey Clemp

Quotes 

• Henrietta Clemp : Harvey, we can't afford to mix with strangers.

  Harvey Clemp : If we only went with our friends, we'd be pretty lonesome.

• Harvey Clemp : My name's Harvey Clemp. I'm the millionaire oil king from Clemp City, Oklahoma. This is my wife, Henrietta, the oil queen. Henrietta, this is Jake.

  Henrietta Clemp : How do you do?

• Henrietta Clemp : This may be madness to you Harvey Clemp, but it's bologna to me.

  Harvey Clemp : Henrietta you astound me. Why the place is littered with movie stars. And that makes some litter.

• Harvey Clemp : Beg pardon, we haven't met. I'm Harvey Clemp, the oil king. Look, a thousand-dollar bill.

  [tears up the bill] 

  Harvey Clemp : You can't do that unless you're a multimillionaire.

  Baron Munchausen : A millionaire! Somebody give him a slipper, quick. Elsie, move over, sit down,.

  [to Harvey] 

  Baron Munchausen : You eat, some champagne in the glass.

  Knapp : Baron, don't forget our deal at hand: deliver the lions to the studio in the morning and get our check for fifty grand.

  Baron Munchausen : I will, thank you.

  Harvey Clemp : I'll give 60.

  Knapp : I'll make it 70.

  Harvey Clemp : 80.

  Knapp : 90.

  Harvey Clemp : 100.

  Knapp : 110.

  Harvey Clemp : 130.

  Baron Munchausen : Wait, you skipped 120.

  Knapp : 120.

  Harvey Clemp : 110.

  Knapp : 100.

  Harvey Clemp : 90.

  Knapp : 80.

  Harvey Clemp : 70.

  Baron Munchausen : Wait, gentlemen, you're going backwards. We was up to 130,000.

  Harvey Clemp : Go ahead anyway, I'll give you the 140.

  Knapp : I'll make it 150, and that's all that we can afford.

  Baron Munchausen : Can I hear 160, could I hear 155? Going, wenting, leaving, could I please hear 155? Going, going...

  Harvey Clemp : I'd rather make it 175.

  Baron Munchausen : Sold! Sold to the gentleman on my right for $175,000.

  Harvey Clemp : I want to congratulate you Baron, I think you made a mighty good sale there.

• Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : I wonder who they are.

  Producer Buddy Goldfarb : Oklahoma oil doing Hollywood; slug nutty about royalty, movie stars. titles, and that sort of thing.

  Harvey Clemp : [to Jake the Cabbie]  Pardon me, but do you know where the great Schnarzan lives?

  Jake the Cabbie : Yes, sir.

  Harvey Clemp : Sorry young man, but I didn't get your name.

  Jake the Cabbie : Jake.

  Harvey Clemp : My name's Harvey Clemp, I'm the millionaire oil king from Clemp City, Oklahoma. This is my wife, Henrietta, the oil queen. Henrietta, this is Jake.

  Henrietta Clemp : How do you do?

  Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : That gives me an idea.

  [pauses] 

  Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : Don't worry, Mr. Goldfarb, I'll crash Schnarzan's party, all right.

  Henrietta Clemp : My husband is the multi-est millionaire in Oklahoma. Show the man, Harvey.

  Harvey Clemp : [takes out a $1000 dollar bill, and tears it up]  A thousand dollar bill. You can't do that unless you're a millionaire.

  Producer Buddy Goldfarb : They'll recognize you at the party, everybody knows Liondora.

  Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : Ah, but I will not be Liondora. I will be the Grand Royal Duke, Spiros Demitros Nikolaus Forfoite Forenikus from southern part Europe, good old Peloponnesius!

• Linda Clemp : Oh, it's wonderful! What did you expect, Auntie?

  Henrietta Clemp : Nobility running around: a duke, an earl, a marquis. I want to hobnob with nibs, I want to run shoulders with royalty. I want a title.

  Harvey Clemp : How about "Came the Dawn"?

  Henrietta Clemp : [sighs]  Oh!

• Harvey Clemp : Sorry, but I didn't catch the name.

  Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : I am Grand Royal Duke. Spiros Demitros Nicolaus Forfoite Forenikus.

  Harvey Clemp : Beg pardon, I still didn't get the name?

  Liondora aka Grand Royal Duke : Oh, it's very easy, is most simplicity: I am Grand Royal Duke Spiros Demitros Nicolaus Forfoite Forenikus.

  Harvey Clemp : Oh, well let it go.

• Harvey Clemp : [to a butler mixing drinks in a cocktail shaker]  Mixing a cocktail? You picked a nice night for it.

  Harvey Clemp : [Harvey goes to the patio, where Jaguar Woman climbs down from a balcony]  Careful, you'll scratch your face.

  Harvey Clemp : [Jaguar Woman climbs down the trellis]  Rather an informal entrance, isn't it?

  The Jaguar Woman : That is nothing! He thinks he can keep me away from his party, eh? The dirty such-and-such, and so-and-so, and this-and-that, oooh!

  Harvey Clemp : Those are strong words, stranger.

  The Jaguar Woman : Wait till I get a hold of him! I'll show him how strong I am! I take hold of his throat, like this...

  [Jaguar Woman wraps her arms around Harvey's neck, showing how she plans to strangle Jimmy] 

  Harvey Clemp : I'd hate to be in his shoes.

  The Jaguar Woman : [Jaguar Woman lets go of Harvey's neck]  Say... I kind of like you. Come here!

• Harvey Clemp : Ahem.

  The Jaguar Woman : Harvey, you're back, eh?

  Harvey Clemp : What a night, the moon is so mellow and the fragrance of your hair - Let me give you what is commonly known as the works.

  The Jaguar Woman : [Harvey puts his arms behind Jaguar Woman and over her chest]  What's the matter with you, are you going crazy?

  Harvey Clemp : I don't seem to have the right purchase.

  Harvey Clemp : [Jaguar Woman throws Harvey over the patio railing, he lands in a flower bed]  I still like the old oil game best.