Roberta (1935)

Ginger Rogers: Lizzie Gatz aka Tanka Scharwenka

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• Lizzie Gatz. alias Countess Scharwenka : You may call me Tanka.

  Huckleberry Haines : Tanka.

  Lizzie Gatz. alias Countess Scharwenka : You're welcome.

• Huckleberry Haines : What's the racket Liz? Did you marry the title or just lift it?

  Lizzie Gatz : Be a pal, will ya, Huck? Its just a stage name. You've got to have a title to croon over here.

• Huckleberry Haines : Do you remember the valentine I sent you? The one with the arrow piercing the heart and dripping blood?

  Lizzie Gatz : [laughing]  Oh, yeah, I remember that. I think that's the only valentine I ever received.

  Huckleberry Haines : Its the only one I ever sent.

  Lizzie Gatz : Oh, those were the happy days, weren't they. You know, I think I was in love with you then, Huck.

  Huckleberry Haines : I know you were.

  Lizzie Gatz : You!

  Huckleberry Haines : Me! And what's more I was madly in love with you.

• Huckleberry Haines : Oh, that one's a honey. That's the one I'd take.

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Do your references refer to de gown or de girl?

  Huckleberry Haines : Oh-oh, I hadn't noticed the girl. But, now that you mention her, I'd take...

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Yes?

  Huckleberry Haines : The gown - less upkeep.

• Stephanie : Who's been running the business?

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Did you say running or ruining?

• Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : The fashion show next week will be a colossal flop!

  Huckleberry Haines : Maybe we should call off the fashion show.

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Oh, I think so.

  Stephanie : We might better put on a good one!

  Huckleberry Haines : Now, you're talking, Stephanie! We'll put on a better than good one and we'll give them some entertainment, too.

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : How about your band?

  Huckleberry Haines : That's a great idea! We'll bring over my band...

  Stephanie : A musical fashion show!

  Huckleberry Haines : Yeah, that's it!

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Marvelous!

• John Kent : Stephanie is swell.

  Comtesse Scharwenka : What? You are her - lover?

  John Kent : I've never seen such a place! No one thinks of anything but being somebody's lover.

  Comtesse Scharwenka : Well, have you never thought of it?

• Lizzie Gatz. alias Countess Scharwenka : These Americans are, what you call, eh, fresh guys!

  Roberta : No, no, no! Refreshing!

  Lizzie Gatz. alias Countess Scharwenka : Oh, mais oui, refreshing, pardon, Monsieur.

  Huckleberry Haines : No, poof. It is nothing - toots!

• Comtesse Scharwenka : [singing]  I'll be hard to handle, I promise you that, And if you complain, Here's one little Jane, Who'll leave you flat...

• Comtesse Scharwenka : [singing]  I'm as cold as any shellfish, I tell lies, I mean I selfish, Think it over, My warning is this, I'll be hard to handle, I'm making it plain, Now just be a dear, And scram outta here, because I'm going to raise Cain...

• Lizzie Gatz : Remember that beauty contest I won?

  Huckleberry Haines : Oh, you got a trip to Kansas City.

  Lizzie Gatz : Well, you won it for me. How did you get all those men from the overalls factory to vote for me?

  Huckleberry Haines : That was easy, I showed them a picture of Lillian Russell.

  Lizzie Gatz : Lillian Russell? Well, what was the matter with my picture?

  Huckleberry Haines : Well, if you must know, we got a lot of votes from the farmers with a picture of a prized heifer.

  Lizzie Gatz : Oh, you!

• Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Do you plan, eh, fitting the ladies yourself, John?

  Huckleberry Haines : What a picture: tape measure around the neck and pin cushion on the hip?

  John Kent : I ought to spank the two of you.

• John Kent : Why don't you let a guy alone when he's trying to figure things out!

  Huckleberry Haines : She just wants to know what you're going to do.

  Lizzie Gatz : That's all.

  John Kent : I'm going home.

  Lizzie Gatz : But, you can't! You're Mr. Roberta.

• Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : [Referring to a Roberta-designed gown]  Mmmm, dat is de one I would take. And tall, handsome gentlemen with large bank accounts will be asking for my telephone number - and getting it!

  Huckleberry Haines : Hah! And won't they be surprised when I answer?

• Huckleberry Haines : Is there anything I can do for you? No.

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : [singing]  Think of what you're losing, while constantly refusing, to dance with me. You'd be the idol of France, with me. And yet you stand there and shake your foolish head romantically, while I wait here so ecstatically. You just look and say emphatically...

  Huckleberry Haines : [singing]  Not this season, there's a reason. I won't dance, don't ask me. I won't dance, don't ask me. I won't dance, madame with you. My heart won't let my feet do things they should do...

• Huckleberry Haines : People in love are always quarreling with each other. Now, you take Liz and myself, for instance.

  Lizzie Gatz alias Countess Scharwenka : Liz? Who is this Liz?

  Huckleberry Haines : Oh, a little country girl from back home that I'm thinking of marrying. You know, big feet, dumb, simple, oh, very simple.

  Stephanie : Well the simple and the dumb ones make the best wives sometimes.