The Gang's All Here (1943)
Edward Everett Horton: Peyton Potter
Quotes
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Phil Baker : Oh, Dorita, you remember Mr. Potter and Mr. Mason.
Dorita : Ah! I remember Mr. Potty. You are here to kick up some more heels, huh?
Peyton Potter : No!
Phil Baker : Mr. Potter wants you to come to his house this weekend.
Dorita : Ah-ah-ah, you naughty boy. You are what they call a fast-work man, yes?
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Peyton Potter : [inspecting lipstick on his handkerchief] Hmm... ketchup?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : No doubt. And from a Brazilian tomato.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Well old swoopy, swapping swoops at your age. What have you got to say about that?
Peyton Potter : I told you darling we were simply discussing investments.
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Peyton Potter : I am a businessman. I go in for no foolishness. I'm entirely business.
Dorita : Oh, I like that. Maybe you show me how to be all business too!
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Peyton Potter : I hope that woman's his wife, because if she's not, there should be a law.
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Andy Mason : Mrs. Potter give you a furlough too?
Peyton Potter : I promised my wife I'd be home before midnight. I like to keep my promises. She expects me to and I expect her to expect it.
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Peyton Potter : Now, see here A.J., I should have been more firm. When I told you that I am never seen in places like this, I meant it. I don't know how you've managed to get me this far. I should have put my foot down.
Andrew Mason Sr. : Don't be a square from Delaware. Get hep to yourself.
Peyton Potter : What kind of talk is that?
Andrew Mason Sr. : I heard it on a jukebox.
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Peyton Potter : This place gives me a very uneasy feeling, A.J.
Andrew Mason Sr. : Shame on you. Gimme your hat and get your mind off your wife.
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Andy Mason : Well, I talked to Mrs. Potter and everything's fine. She was delighted to hear that you had taken up dancing again.
Peyton Potter : She was? Did you tell her about me out there on the floor? Did you tell her about me dancing with that South American savage?
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Peyton Potter : This is all your fault, A.J. It was you who sicced that gypsy on me.
Andrew Mason Sr. : She's no gypsy. She's a Brazilian!
Peyton Potter : Well, whatever she is, she's a...
Andrew Mason Sr. : She's a bombshell!
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Peytie, can I help it if I'm irresistible?
Peyton Potter : It's that vitamin B1. I told you you were taking too much. You're overdoing it.
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Dorita : Mr. Potty, I'm afraid of you.
Peyton Potter : You are, really?
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Peyton Potter : You have the busiest hands.
Dorita : Yes? You think so?
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Dorita : Mr. Mason is serving everyone mint jalops and I bring you a mint jalops too! It's delicious.
Peyton Potter : Yes, well, you might have saved yourself the trouble. I am a teetotaller. I never touch alcohol.
Dorita : Oh, you don't touch it. You drink it.
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Phil Baker : Ugly word, blackmail. Don't say it again.
Peyton Potter : Blackmail, blackmail, blackmail.
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Peyton Potter : [When Mrs. Potter walks in on him and Dorita] Darling, how marvelous. We were just discussing the invasion - the investments.
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Peyton Potter : I never touch alcohol.
Dorita : Oh, you don't touch it, you drink it.
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Peyton Potter : Why not another stag diner, A.J.? I had a very good time at that last one.
Andrew Mason Sr. : No, no, Right here. Behind his name he signed N.S.D.
Peyton Potter : Yes, National Selection Draft. You see that's what...
Andrew Mason Sr. : National Selection nothing. It's N.S.D. - no stag dinner.
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Phil Baker : [Phil and Mrs. Potter are in her boudoir] You know what to do now?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : No, my mama never told me. Don't you worry about me.
[a knock at the door]
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Here he is.
Phil Baker : Come on, baby. Do your stuff.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Come in.
[Enter Peyton]
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Oh, Peyton.
Peyton Potter : You sent for me, dear?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Yes, I did.
Peyton Potter : What's Mr. Barlow doing here?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : [the ensuing scene is acted in a very florid melodrama style, very Clyde Fitch] Protect me. This man is blackmailing us.
Peyton Potter : Blackmail? What's he want, money?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Would it were money he wanted.
Peyton Potter : What do you mean by that?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : He threatens me unless I allow my daughter, your daughter, our daughter to dance in the show with Tony De Marco.
Peyton Potter : Why, that's unthinkable. Oh, you blackguard. Oh, you gangster. How could you think of such a fiendish scheme?
Phil Baker : Now, Mr. Potter, the only decision I want you to make is this: shall I introduce Vivian as the charming child of Mr. And Mrs. Peyton Potter... or shall I simply announce, ladies and gentlemen... I give you the talented daughter of the notorious Blossom Murphy?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Ohhh!
Peyton Potter : You know her name?
[to Vivian]
Peyton Potter : You told him your name?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : [tragically] No, Peyton, he knew me... in Paris.
Peyton Potter : In Paris? You scoundrel! Out of her dark past which she has lived down so beautifully... so gracefully, you come at a time like this to blackmail her.
Phil Baker : Ugly word, "blackmail. " Don't say it again.
Peyton Potter : Blackmail, blackmail, blackmail! How much money does he want?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : I don't know.
Phil Baker : As I said before, or should have said, you cannot bribe me with gold. It is the artistry that was Blossom Murphy that I would restore to the world through her daughter Vivian.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Oh, Peyton, you won't make her do it! You won't make her appear in that show! I would die!
Peyton Potter : I see no other way out, darling. Mr. Bailey has us in his power.
Phil Baker : Will you give your consent, Mrs. Potter?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : If Mr. Potter insists!
Peyton Potter : What else can I do? But I'm not finished with you yet. I'll see a good lawyer today to deal with you for this outrage.
Phil Baker : My brother in Brooklyn, he's a wiz on blackmail cases.
Peyton Potter : Oh, is he?
Phil Baker : Yes.
Peyton Potter : Really!