Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Ginger Rogers: Peggy Cornell

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• Pete : Well, I've put all the kiddies east of the Mississippi to bed. How's rehearsal?

  Peggy Cornell : Oh awful. Some yokel stood outside the rehearsal hall making and stared at me until I nearly broke me up. What have you got a summons?

  Pete : No, fan mail.

  Peggy Cornell : Oh. Three of them. That's two more than last week! Your public are growing up and learning to write.

  Pete : Listen to this: Dear Uncle Pete. I am well. How are you? I hear you on the radio every night. Great stuff for a he man poet... Have you heard my last poem, Peggy?

  Peggy Cornell : I sure hope so.

  Pete : Frankie Wallace was a pug. He laid his opponents out like a rug. Until one day... Wait a minute! You haven't heard the last of it.

  Peggy Cornell : Well. You've got me cornered.

  Pete : Frankie Wallace was a pug. He laid his opponents out like a rug...

• Peggy Cornell : [singing]  What are you up to? If you're in the proper mood, For a moonlight interlude, I'm prepared to be pursued by you, Oh! Babe, what are you out for? Baby, what am I in for? Is my baby out for *no* good? Is my baby got rhythm? Tell me is it hot rhythm? Is my baby out for *no* good? Mr. Moon, why does he wink at every star? In the park, in the dark, why do we park a car?

• Peggy Cornell : [singing]  Is my baby out for *no* good? Cause I could, do you good, if my baby, is out for no good.

• Buddy Clayton : You don't like Rush, do ya?

  Peggy Cornell : Oh, I don't dislike him. I just know him!

• Peggy Cornell : Ah, the good old Rush technique: you start at the top and work yourself down.

• Rush Blake : Peg, how you fixed for dough?

  Peggy Cornell : I've still got a little.

  Rush Blake : Can you spare a fin?

  Peggy Cornell : Sure.

  Rush Blake : You haven't got five ones, have ya?

• Peggy Cornell : Hello, Marge. See my Big Moment?

  Marge : Yes, he's in his dressing room, you lucky gal.

• Peggy Cornell : Listen, I'll let you in on a little secret. For six months I've been trying to get a part in a production and they couldn't see me for dust. So, now, when I'm gonna get married, I get an offer. Tragic, isn't it?

• Rush Blake : Hello Peggy, how's the bride to be?

  Peggy Cornell : You mean, to be or not to be.

• Peggy Cornell : [singing]  You may not be an angel.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, you may not be an angel.

  Peggy Cornell : But still I'm sure you'll do.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, but still I'm sure you'll do.

  Peggy Cornell , Buddy Clayton : So until the day that one comes along, I'll string along with you.

  [kiss] 

• Rush Blake : Have a good time. See the world! Paris, Egypt, London, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Pomona...

  Rush Blake , Peggy Cornell , Buddy Clayton : And seven Canadian stations!