Fashions of 1934 (1934)

Verree Teasdale: Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess

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Quotes 

• Sherwood Nash : But, this number, Your Highness, shall simply knock your eye out!

  [spanks Mabel, impersonating a Russian Duchess, in the behind] 

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : How dare you!

  Sherwood Nash : Come on, now, Mabel. Be yourself!

  [grabs and kisses Mabel] 

  Sherwood Nash : Well, well, well. How are things back in Hoboken?

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : I thought I was getting away with it.

  Sherwood Nash : [looking at Mabel's hair]  Well, I must admit the peroxide had me fooled for a little bit. But, Mabel,

  [looks at and pats Mabel's behind] 

  Sherwood Nash : I never forget a personality.

• Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : No kidding, Sherry, I didn't think you'd remember me.

  Sherwood Nash : No?

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Gee, it must be all of five or six years ago.

  Sherwood Nash : It was eleven, to be exact.

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Don't be vulgar. Eleven years ago I was still in finishing school.

  Sherwood Nash : And I was a Boy Scout.

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Oh, yeah? Well, what good deed might you be doing in Paris?

• Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Say, what is this Lynn girl to you anyway?

  Sherwood Nash : Now, don't you start. I'm having enough trouble explaining you to her!

• Sherwood Nash : Oh! Baby, baby! Just in time to congratulate you.

  Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : No kidding, Sherry, how was I? Do they like me?

  Sherwood Nash : Like you? Listen to them! Say, if you're half as good in the second act as you were in the first, well, Duchess, they'll make you a Queen!

• Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : [singing]  Play your broken melody, Upon the strings of fantasy, Forget about your rainbow schemes, Spin a little web of dreams...