Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Pat O'Brien: Rush Blake

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• Rush Blake : Baby, if you could only sing. Say, there's an idea: a singing cigarette girl. Oh, I can hear the music comin' over the air now. Soft and soothing. You know, I'd like to give you to all America - and seven Canadian stations!

  Cigarette Girl : You giving anything would be a new idea.

• Rush Blake : You know, Mr. Walcott, in a hotel, it's personality that counts. You can have 300 rooms and 300 baths; but, if you don't put your personality into 'em, where are you? If I've said it once, I've said it a 100 times: east, west, home is best. And that's what you've got here, Mr. Walcott.

• Rush Blake : Say, listen, I'm headin' for New York - where there's a pot of gold and milk and honey waitin' for me.

• Rush Blake : How would like to go to New York?

  Buddy Clayton : How would you like a nice ham sandwich?

  Rush Blake : Ah, no, now I'm serious.

  Buddy Clayton : So am I!

• Rush Blake : Sit down a minute, will ya?

  Buddy Clayton : I'm not allowed to sit with a customer.

  Rush Blake : I'm not a customer! I'm a prophet from the promised land.

  Buddy Clayton : Shhh! I'll keep your secret.

  Rush Blake : Sit down a minute, will ya? Listen, I got a perfect honey of an idea. It came to me when I heard you sing.

  Buddy Clayton : Don't blame me for that!

• Buddy Clayton : You sound like you've been reading a dime novel.

  Rush Blake : Boy, don't think of dimes, think in millions! A million dollars waiting for you with your name on it. And you only need me to get it for you.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, I need somebody to get it for me.

• Rush Blake : Horace really was wrong. Go east, young man, go east.

• Rush Blake : Well, here you are buddy, castle of dreams! A little different from that daffy honky tonk in Hollywood, isn't it?

• Mr. Sharpe's Secretary : Mr. Sharpe will see you now.

  Rush Blake : Bright eyes, he'll not only see me, he'll kiss me.

• Rush Blake : Here I bring you an absolute, definite novelty - even after you fire me. And just to show you my loyalty, I pay my own railroad fare to get here. Now, I ask you Mr. Sharpe, is that gratitude? Is that gratitude!

  Chester A. Sharpe : I don't give a whoop whether it's gratitude or pineapples!

• Pete : How'd you do on the coast, Rush?

  Rush Blake : Colossal, colossal! Say listen, I could of managed any of 'em. Cagney, Robinson, Blondell - they all wanted me! A lot of dough in the movie racket. Aw, but radio is my first love.

• Rush Blake : All right, Mr. Sharpe, I can see you're nothing but a high bound reactionary. You're a die hard, Mr. Sharpe. You're losing your grip. I'm going right over and sell him to television.

• 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?

• Rush Blake : Say listen, kid, every dame in the country will go overboard when you turn on that golden throat.

  Buddy Clayton : And seven Canadian stations.

  Rush Blake : Yeah and seven Canadian stations.

• Rush Blake : [after a shower, draped in a towel]  Let's get goin' boys.

  Pete : Hey! Where are you goin'? To a nudist picnic?

  Rush Blake : Oh, grab a cab. I'll be right with you.

• Rush Blake : This doesn't call for a lawyer. It calls for a doctor and here I am, Dr. Blake, ready to cure your romantic moments.

  Herbert Brokman : Yeah, I had experts trying to cure my romantic moments.

  Rush Blake : Say, I've got just the boy for this...

  Herbert Brokman : Boy? What boy? I don't want boys!

• Rush Blake : This is all wrong, you've got a woman on this program. You can't have a woman sell soap to women. You need a man for that. Did you ever hear of a Fuller Brush woman?

• Herbert Brokman : Always something to worry about!

  Rush Blake : Ah, what's the beef now?

  Herbert Brokman : This is a pretty fettle of kish, kettle of fish. Three million women dream about him every night and he wants to marry one girl.

  Rush Blake : What about it? He can't marry the whole three million of 'em.

• Buddy Clayton : I can't do anything about it until I talk it over with Peggy.

  Rush Blake : Well, that's fine. Talk it over with Peggy. She'll understand. She's a great guy!

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

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

• Rush Blake : Imagine that, the kid's gone Broadway.

• Rush Blake : Thanks, kid, I know you'd see it my way. Remember, I had nothin' to do with this! You don't know me. You never even saw me. I'm the man from Mars to you.

• 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!