Broadway Rhythm (1944)

George Murphy: Jonnie Demming

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• Jonnie Demming : Here we are - three weeks before the opening and we haven't got a leading lady.

• Jonnie Demming : She's going to get something out of life besides grease paint and press notices.

• Patsy Demming : Gosh, can't a girl come home for the weekend?

  Jonnie Demming : Oh, sure. But since when did the weekend start of Wednesday?

• Jonnie Demming : Pops retired, Felix.

  Felix Gross : Yeah, but does he know that?

• Jonnie Demming : Those Hollywood dames kill me. They make two pictures and some half-baked press agent tells them how great they are and right away they want to come to New York to teach Ethel Barrymore how to act.

• Jonnie Demming : She's not kidding me. She's here for just one thing: a Broadway show. I could have her tomorrow on toast.

  Felix Gross : Ain't a bad idea.

• Felix Gross : You better watch yourself, boss. Them dames is temperamental.

  Jonnie Demming : I'm a little temperamental too. Maybe we ought to get together.

• Jonnie Demming : I noticed your entrance, dreamboat.

• Patsy Demming : Oh, gosh, Jonnie, last night I really lived. People liked me. They applauded. I felt glamorous, important.

  Jonnie Demming : Well, you were, for a minute or two. But, I'm sorry it happened.

  Patsy Demming : Well, I'm not.

• Sam Demming : What is this? Hey, hey, what's going on here?

  Jonnie Demming : We're doing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and I'm playing Simon Legree.

• Jonnie Demming : Well, I'll be gosh darn.

• Jonnie Demming : Hey, Pop, where are you going?

  Sam Demming : I'm going out to the ballpark where you're always trying to send me. And if they've made that arty, you'll find me a Grogan's Bar. Stinkin'!

• Jonnie Demming : You ought to look to the future. One day you and Trixie will get married and before you know it, you'll have a baby and what's the first thing you do when you have a baby?

  Felix Gross : Wed.

  Jonnie Demming : No, dopey. You pass out cigars.

• Jonnie Demming : I'm going to postpone this show until I can get Helen Hoyt to play that part.

  Felix Gross : But she don't want to play on our team.

  Jonnie Demming : Oh, don't you worry. When I get through pitching, she'll be catching

  Felix Gross : Well, you better watch your step. She already hit your fast ball.

  Jonnie Demming : Wait'll I throw her the curve. You know, she's kinda pretty at that.

• Jonnie Demming : I'm sick of giving the public what they want! From now on I'm going to give them what they ought to have.

• Jonnie Demming : You know what I'm going to do for you? I'm going to make you the biggest hit of the Broadway season. I'll plaster your name on every billboard from the Battery to the Bronx. How does it sound, Dreamboat?

• Sam Demming : Now, there's a show that makes sense and it's got what you've lost since you hit the top.

  Jonnie Demming : What's that?

  Sam Demming : Heart.

  Jonnie Demming : Oh, Dad, you can't sell that old applesauce to Broadway anymore.

• Jonnie Demming : Love! Cupid let me have it while my back was turned.

• Jonnie Demming : If you want to make a fool of yourself, he can have you. But I'll be darned if I deliver you.

• Jonnie Demming : I might not be always right, but I'm never wrong.

• Jonnie Demming : I've given him everything in the world that he could want. He ought to be as happy as a kid.

  Helen Hoyt : Yes, a kid without a lollipop.

• Helen Hoyt : You mean you don't want me?

  Jonnie Demming : Want you? I wouldn't want you if you were the only woman walking around with two hands and two feet.

• Jonnie Demming : I told you from the beginning you can't trust those Hollywood dames.

• Jonnie Demming : My Dad's one of the finest comics who ever stepped on the stage. And no guy with a sprained ankle or a dame with cold feet is going close his show.