The Girl in the Show (1929)

Bessie Love: Hattie Hartley

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• Hattie Hartley : Will you get off the stage? Don't you see we're bringin' up.

  Mal Thorne : Gee, Hat, you look swell!

  Hattie Hartley : Not now, Mal! This is a death scene, not a love scene.

• Hattie Hartley : Is there any money in the house?

  Mal Thorne : Yeah, about enough for a cup of coffee.

  Hattie Hartley : Oh, tough!

• Oriole : Here I am!

  Hattie Hartley : You know, I should give you a lickin'! How many times must I tell you not to feed that dog while the show's going on?

  Mal Thorne : Oh, lay off. She's all right.

  Oriole : She won't hit me.

  Hattie Hartley : Oh, I would if I didn't love you so much!

• Mal Thorne : Oh, Ed, could you let me have a little advance?

  Ed Bondell : What for?

  Hattie Hartley : Oriole's gotta have some more cod liver oil.

  Ed Bondell : What does she do? Bathe in it?

• Ed Bondell : Well, there's a chance for us all to get some money.

  Hattie Hartley : How?

  Ed Bondell : A fella comin' in to see you.

  Hattie Hartley : Who?

  Ed Bondell : Name's Wampler. And they say he's a big splash in this town.

  Hattie Hartley : What does he want?

  Ed Bondell : I don't know, unless you've gone and snagged yourself a John.

  Hattie Hartley : Oh, be yourself!

• Ed Bondell : All you got to do to help us all out is to kid this fella along a little. Come on, what do say?

  Hattie Hartley : Well, I'll do what I can. But, I don't know.

  Ed Bondell : That's all I ask. Just do what you can. He's just ripe for some dame to vamp him.

• Newton Wampler : Gosh, you're a cute little trick. It wouldn't do for me to be around you for long.

  Hattie Hartley : You married, Mr. Wampler?

  Newton Wampler : No. I'm just a lonely old bach.

• Newton Wampler : What's your name little girl?

  Oriole : Oriole.

  Newton Wampler : Oriole, eh? Gosh, that's an odd name, isn't it?

  Hattie Hartley : Well, Mom called her that cause when she was born and Mom was comin' out of the ether, there was a little bird singing outside her window. The doctor said it was an Oriole.

• Hattie Hartley : Oh, hello, Mal. Is the kid all right?

  Mal Thorne : Yeah, a lot you care - running off in a pleasure buggy with a stranger.

  Hattie Hartley : Well, just lay her down in the bunk. I'll be in and undress her.

• Hattie Hartley : Oh, Mal, don't make me do something I don't want to do!

  Mal Thorne : All right, honey, I won't. Gee, all I want to do is just to make you happy. You know that, don't you?

  Hattie Hartley : Yes, dear.

  [long kiss] 

• Hattie Hartley : Can I keep a man from following me?

• Newton Wampler : Now, you see, I'm a businessman. I've got plenty of cash. Now, let's you and me get down to cases. I'll make you a little proposition.

  Hattie Hartley : A proposition?

  Newton Wampler : Yeah, I guess you know what I mean, don't you?

• Hattie Hartley : Once a trooper, always a trooper!

• Hattie Hartley : You can't have Oriole all the time. I won't have her in this rotten business. She'll turn out just like me.

• Hattie Hartley : You wanted candy, you can have it. What does it matter? What does anything matter?

• Hattie Hartley : Oh, Connie, that's the sweetest fella the lord has ever let live.

• Hattie Hartley : Little Eva will be played tonight like its never been played before. I'll show you who's the greatest Little Eva - extant!