The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Gracie Allen: Mrs. Platt

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Platt : Try and figure this one out. What is it that hasn't got what you think it has, but if it has, how many has it got?

  Jack Carson : [repeating]  What is it that hasn't got what you think it has, but if it has, how many has it got?

  Mrs. Platt : Yes

  Mr. Platt : Gracie, you're crazy!

  Mrs. Platt : [surprised]  Yeah. Oh that's it! That's the answer! That's very good, George.

  Mr. Platt : [exhausted]  That's the answer? 'Gracie, you're crazy'?

  Mrs. Platt : Well, it must be because everybody I talk to says the same thing.

• Mrs. Platt : [to Jack]  You ought to be on radio.

• Mrs. Platt : Imagine a traveling salesman on a program with nice clean golf balls.

• Patsy : I'm Mr. Carson's secretary. I'll try and find him for you.

  Mrs. Platt : Oh, look, if you're Mr. Carson's secretary, maybe you're sitting on his lap. Mr. Carson? Mr. Carson?

  [looks behind Patsy] 

• Mrs. Platt : Whatever became of you?

  Jack Carson : Well, I was elected Vice President.

  Mrs. Platt : Vice President?

  Jack Carson : Yeah!

  Mrs. Platt : Now, I've heard of Vice; but, I never knew they had a President for it.

• Jack Carson : You practically took the words out of my mouth.

  Mrs. Platt : Yeah, well, if I put 'em back, what have you got?

• Bob Black : Pardon me, lady, but I'm lookin' for Mr. Stokowski.

  Mrs. Platt : Well, anybody can look for Mr. Stokowski. But, get Mr. Stokowski to look for you, then you got something. Or, have you?

• Mrs. Platt : Don't I look pretty?

• Bob Black : He knows how to make love and I don't know nothin' about that.

  Mrs. Platt : Oh, well, there's nothing to it. I could show it to you in a minute.