Manpower (1941)

Marlene Dietrich: Fay Duval

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• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : I ain't used to havin' women servin' me breakfast. I guess there is somethin' to this marriage business after all. How long has this been going on?

  Fay Duval : Since Adam and Eve.

• Fay Duval : I don't get anything out of this joint but tired.

• Fay Duval : If I want to roll in the gutter, let me roll.

• Fay Duval : Have you got a cigarette? I bet I look like something that came in with the tide. I sure could use some powder and lipstick.

  Johnny Marshall : Sorry, I left mine at home.

• Johnny Marshall : It's a good thing that stuff ain't fattening.

  Fay Duval : I could use a couple of pounds. The rest cure didn't do my figure any good.

  Drug Store Clerk : It didn't do it any harm.

  Johnny Marshall : Go on, jerk yourself a soda.

• Fay Duval : [props her leg up]  Say, doc, you got something to take out a spot?

  Drug Store Clerk : Oh, yes, ma'am. We always keep it handy.

  [walks over with the spot remover and rubs an area of Fay's dress above her propped up knee] 

  Fay Duval : How's the view from your angle?

  Johnny Marshall : I've seen as good.

  Drug Store Clerk : There! Any other spots?

  Fay Duval : No, what do you think I am? A leopard?

  Drug Store Clerk : Oh there's one.

  [touches Fay's bottom and Fay slaps away his hand] 

  Fay Duval : I'll handle that one.

• Johnny Marshall : What are you gonna do in LA?

  Fay Duval : Oh, I'll get by, one way or the other.

  Johnny Marshall : Why don't you try the other way for a change.

  Fay Duval : Because there's too many guys like you - crawling around.

• Smiley Quinn : Now, go on, be like me, just lose yourself in your work.

  Fay Duval : It doesn't help. I always find myself again.

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : I bet you ain't gettin' rich in this flea bag.

  Fay Duval : You're right. I don't get anything out of this joint, but tired.

• Fay Duval : What's going on? What is on your mind?

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Nothing. Say, does a guy have to have somthin' on his mind when he gives a dame a present?

• Fay Duval : I don't like to give a good guy a bad shake.

• Scarlett : Hey, Fay, the guy up at the bar wants to see you and he ain't bad.

  Fay Duval : He ain't good or he wouldn't be in here.

• Fay Duval : The tinhorns that talk biggest, scream the loudest when they get the check. You're so cheap, you're wholesale.

• Fay Duval : What makes you think I couldn't level with the guy?

  Johnny Marshall : You couldn't even level with yourself. You got that clip joint in your blood and you'll never lose it.

• Dolly : Looks like a honeymoon for one.

  Fay Duval : If a man can't get tight on his wedding night, when can he?

  Scarlett : I've heard of guys passin' out cigars on the wedding night; but, your honey just passes out.

• Dolly : Don't be a sap, Fay. You don't know what you're gettin' into.

  Fay Duval : I know what I'm getting out of.

• Dolly : What are you going to do in Chicago?

  Fay Duval : The only thing I know how to do: hustling drinks for the house.

  Dolly : Oh now look, honey, how many more years of that do you think you got? First two wrinkles you show, you're washed up.

• Fay Duval : All right, go on. Hit me again if that makes you feel any better. I've been hit before and harder.

  Johnny Marshall : That wasn't anything the way you're gonna be smacked if I ever catch you out of line again.

• Fay Duval : For a change, I'm going to do what I want to.

  Johnny Marshall : I'm not asking what you're going to do, sister. I'm telling you!

• Fay Duval : I was running away from you. Because you're always around. And I couldn't stand to look at you any more without touching you. I was going crazy every time I thought of you.

• Fay Duval : I was setting myself up behind the eight ball again. And I was going to take the worst of it. As usual! Well, that's what I was going to do. That's what I tried to do.