Gold Dust Gertie (1931)
Ole Olsen: George Harlan
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Quotes
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George Harlan : You will see in a glance...
Elmer Guthrie : Just how much a woman wants to show, when bathing. The Acme Company gained recognition and sales by taking off that much from the old model bathing suit and let a woman expose her ankles to the public gaze.
John Aberdeen Arnold : It created a sensation. It was vulgar!
Elmer Guthrie : But, it made money!
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : [knock on the door] Who is it?
Elmer Guthrie : Me!
George Harlan : I!
Elmer Guthrie : Us!
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Come in. All of you. Well, looks like old home week. Welcome to my pajama party.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Now, you boys better be going. I'm getting awfully sleepy.
George Harlan : No, no. Let's have another nip.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : You're just a couple of minnows. I'm after big fish and I don't mean mackerel.
George Harlan : You mean you're going to make him fall?
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Fall? He's on his back now. I'm picking him up and leading him around. I'm teaching him to walk, skip, hop and jump. Now, you be good little boys and you can stick around. You start something and I'll have you fired.
Elmer Guthrie : The weaker sex.
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Yes, sir, and going stronger.
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Lucille Harlan : Am I the only woman you ever loved?
George Harlan : Oh, cross my heart, Tootsie-Woomsie-Mumsie, is the the only woman Poorgy-Georgy ever loved.
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Elmer Guthrie : They showed some of the knee. It saved the firm, sir. The showing of the knee.
George Harlan : Now, we can rip off even more - and make ourselves millionaires over night.
John Aberdeen Arnold : That is enough. A woman's body is sacred. And her *nudity* should be guarded from the public gaze.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Look! I've got a sucker!
George Harlan : That's nothing new.
Elmer Guthrie : That makes a boatload of suckers.
