Roxie Hart (1942)

Nigel Bruce: E. Clay Benham

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Quotes 

• E. Clay Benham : Is Roxie the one who plugged 'em?

  Amos Hart : She is. Why should I try to protect her? Why should I take the rap when all the time she was lyin' to me? I bring her to Chicago. I get her a job. And this is what she does to me. Why, I wasn't even in the room. I was coming up them stairs when bang, bang, bang, bang! And there she was with a rod in her hand.

• Jake Callahan : Listen, Roxie, you are a very lucky girl. Today you are nobody and who cares. Tomorrow money couldn't buy the publicity you'll have. Column after column of it. Pictures, measurements, what'cha eat, what'cha drink, how ya feel when you get up in the morning, advice to young girls...

  E. Clay Benham : On the radio...

  Jake Callahan : Everybody in the country will know ya. They'll fight to see ya like when you cross the sidewalk from the patrol wagon to the courtroom door. They'll want your autograph. They'll grab your clothes for souvenirs. They'll want to kiss ya so they can tell their grandchildren.

  E. Clay Benham : A million dollar production and you're the star!

  Jake Callahan : I'm tellin' ya, honey, you'll be right up there with Peaches Browning, William Jennings Bryan, Queen Marie, Ma Ferguson...

  E. Clay Benham : Mutt and Jeff...

  Jake Callahan : Red Grange, Duke Snyder, Aimee Semple McPherson, Barney Google... Don't you understand, dear? This is Chicago, the city of opportunity...

  E. Clay Benham : And that city only awaits one word from you... to be at your feet.

  [Benham picks up Roxie's foot and kisses it] 

• E. Clay Benham : Fred was a man who was always sensitive to a well-turned ankle.