Everybody Sing (1938)

Monty Woolley: John Fleming

Quotes 

• Hillary Bellaire : What a household. Servants butting in, telling you how things should be done.

  John Fleming : Well, after all, they represent the masses. Do you know what I mean by the masses? People who are not actors. There are dozens of them and they come in very handy at the box office. Strangely enough, if they don't like a show, the show closes. Moliere, if you remember, used to ask the advice of his cook.

• John Fleming : Olga?

  Olga Chekaloff : Yes, sir?

  John Fleming : What do *you* think of Mr. Bellaire's play?

  Olga Chekaloff : Vell, it depends on how I feel. Sometimes I feel it ain't so bad and sometimes I feel it ain't so good. But I don't like to say.

  John Fleming : Speak up! What's wrong with it?

  Olga Chekaloff : Vell, since you asked me, he goes to her and he says, "Darling, vere utterly mad, you know." Den, she says, "All my life I been a slave. Fea-red, bound by convenchens." Convenchens? Who knows vhat dat means anyvay? It's ridiculous! In de first place, people don't talk like dat. And, in de second place - people don't talk like dat. Convenchens?

• Diana Bellaire : Anyway, the trouble isn't with the acting, its where Sylvia steals Jerrold away from me. The audience won't believe it. Not for a moment!

  John Fleming : And why? Because you insisted upon Hillary making Sylvia your sister instead of your daughter.

  Diana Bellaire : He had to make her my sister. I couldn't have a daughter that old.

  Hillary Bellaire : But, she is your daughter, isn't she?

  Diana Bellaire : Oh, don't evade the question!