- Dorothy Wayne: Well, I finally met your brother.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Yeah, where is he?
- Dorothy Wayne: Flat on his back, out cold, back of the Shim Sham.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: What happened to him?
- Dorothy Wayne: Well, man meets girl, girl meets husband, husband meets man, man meets sidewalk.
- H.P. Jackson: You know where he's gone?
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Where are the horses running? Put two and two together and you get eight.
- Sam Rupert: He ain't in Saratoga.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Well, neither are the horses.
- H.P. Jackson: Don't tell me he went all the way down to Caliente?
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: That's just where they're running and I got a hunch if there's any sugar on their noses, Al's down there with a shaker.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Wait a minute. Wait a minute! All you boys keep your garters up.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: [finishes her dance routine] How am I?
- Al Howard: Huh, you should be with Pavlova.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: She's dead!
- Al Howard: Take care of yourself.
- Nellie Lahey (Blonde Showgirl): Don't kid me mister. You love it.
- Al Howard: You must have been readin' my mail.
- Nellie Lahey (Blonde Showgirl): I'm the postmaster's daughter.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Think of all those poor people out of a job when you walked out on a hit show. Do you think they feel good? You know, the trouble with you is you're selfish. You never think of anybody but yourself.
- Al Howard: Molly, will you stop acting like a wife.
- Dorothy Wayne: [singing] If you're feeling kind of lonely, And you feel you need a pal, Have a good old fashioned cocktail, With a good old fashioned gal...
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Al, I'm through with you. I'm sick and tired of taking the bunk for you at the bottom of the chute-the-chute. You're going to take this one yourself. You're broke. You're stranded. You're through.
- Al Howard: What time do you get through tonight, baby?
- Nellie Lahey (Blonde Showgirl): One o'clock, to the stage door with *nothin'* on my mind.
- Al Howard: I'll be there, baby; but, not a word to Winchell.
- Al Howard: [singing] Let the whole world laugh at me, As long as I can bend my knee, Oh, Mammy, I'll sing about you, Say, let 'em sing, Let 'em sing, Sing about the moon, But, as long as I can croon a little tune, Mammy, my Mammy, I'll sing about you, The little flower, The little flowers may bloom, And the snow may fall, But, as long as I, As long as I can sing at all, Ah, Mammy, my Mammy, I'll sing about you...
- Nellie Lahey (Blonde Showgirl): Dot! Dot, what do you think? I got a date with Al Howard.
- Dorothy Wayne: Really? Gee, I bet that was tough to do.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: He's going to have an offer of a job, providing he's got a partner.
- Dorothy Wayne: What have you been doing? Reading tea leaves?
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: You never saw tea leaves in gin, did you, baby?
- Al Howard: Where you been?
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: The last two hours I've been over there at the beauty parlor.
- Al Howard: You weren't waited on.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: No. Ha-ha-ha. Yes and the next time you go on, use that crack.
- Al Howard: Yes.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: It'll die with the rest of your stuff.
- Dorothy Wayne: That's the first nice thing you ever said to me.
- Al Howard: Ah, you little monkey, for makin' a crack like that, you know what I ought to do to you? I oughta take you across my knee and spank you - and I know right where to start, too.
- Dorothy Wayne: Yes and I'd be just dumb enough to give you a paddle.
- Al Howard: Anything?
- Dorothy Wayne: Anything!
- Al Howard: All right, Tootsie, you brought it on yourself.
- Dorothy Wayne: Gee, thanks. Wait'll I pull up the rug.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Let's talk this thing over sensibly, now, as one sap to another.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: It was on the same moonlight night - and over the swamp a hot wind blew upon the face of little Nell as she sat there on the porch waiting for her lover's knock. Way down there in Omahoo.
- Al Howard: Omaha! Omaha!
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: All right! Omaha to you, Omahoo to me!
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: Oh, I forgot to tell you. During this stuff I want a green light.
- Al Howard: A green light?
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: A green light.
- Al Howard: You'd be better in the dark.
- Irma 'Toledo' Knight: Ha-ha. Someday I'll resent you.
- Al Howard: Go ahead.
- Al Howard: Molly!
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Hello, Casanova!
- Al Howard: You're a hot one. I see you out front, I expect you to come to my dresser, and I find you here. A kiss for you, doll.
- [kiss on the lips]
- Fred: I still say you're putting your money on a wine, women, and song man. He's got a bad reputation. Go ahead, put up your dough and watch him run out and leave you holding the bag.
- Duke Hutchinson: He can pull that with the others; but, he better not try it on me. I got too many nasty friends.
- Al Howard: I wrote to all of them and I got the same answer: No.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: That's no tonic to your vanity is it.
- Al Howard: Listen, sis, I got a daffy idea. Now, if I could promote a little dough, you know what I'd do? I'd get me an old theater on Broadway, tear out the seats, put in some tables, give 'em the greatest floor show you ever saw in your life, and have dinner and liquor besides.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Now you're going to turn show business into a ham sandwich.
- Al Howard: You said it - at five bucks a copy.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: How did know you''d come up and start knocking out pop flies before the ballgame started?
- Al Howard: Harry, if you only knew what I've just been through.
- Harry Warren: Well, this won't be so tough. Luana knows the song swell.
- Al Howard: Okay. Come on, baby. Chirp it like a canary.
- Luana Wells: [singing] When we parted I was satisfied to let you go, But, it's hard, to get you off my mind, Now I'm learning to regret the day I let you go, You left a million memories behind, Those ashes on the floor, The way you slam the door, I miss them when the day is through, When I sit alone, I think of you, And the little things you used to do...
- Al Howard: Listen, kid, do me a favor, will you? Just read your Mother Goose books. I'll handle my own affairs.
- Al Howard: Tip me off to his racket.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Now, don't be dumb, you've heard of the Duke. He's the biggest shot in Detroit.
- Al Howard: And that Jane out there's his wife?
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Certainly. He picked her up at a nightclub where she was a blues singer and he's crazy about her, see.
- Al Howard: I don't blame him. I think she's pretty swell myself.
- Molly Howard, aka Lucille Thompson: Ah, you couldn't get to first base with her.
- Al Howard: I couldn't, eh?
- Al Howard: Luana, that was swell. I don't know, you put everything you had into it.
- Luana Wells: How could I hold anything back with you around.
- Al Howard: [singing] Good evening all you localites, And all you gay suburbanites, How be ya? Happy to see ya...
- Al Howard: [singing in blackface] If you've been singing a sad and blue song, Say, go into your dance, Until you learn how to sing a new song, Go into your dance, Don't be complaining, Learn how to smile, And if its raining, Dance in the rain awhile, Put off your sorrow, Until tomorrow, Go into your dance, You can do it! Go into your dance...
- Duke Hutchinson: You sure you know Al Howard when you see him?
- Gangster: Know him? I'd know him if was black face, blue face, or white face. I seen him on the stage lots of times.