Stage Struck (1936)

Dick Powell: George Randall

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• Wayne : You're fired!

  George Randall : You can't fire me, we've got a verbal contract.

  Wayne : It's not worth the paper it's written on. You're fired!

• Fred Harris : Listen, I've got a terrific star, lyrics and music by Cooper and Marley, all the girls in the world!

  George Randall : All the girls in the world. I guess that's just too ducky. Listen, sweetheart, I wouldn't step on the stage with even one girl. For five years I've been working with these females in wholesale lots. Even at home, I've had women in my ears and in my teeth, my hair, screamin', hollerin', yellin'. Well, they're all alike and they're making a gibbering maniac out of me.

• George Randall : Why you blonde traitor you! You! You perfumed Judas you!

• Peggy Revere : Always remember, George, what Shakespeare said, "When two's company, he who hesitates, is lost."

  George Randall : Who said that?

  Peggy Revere : Shakespeare, the bird of Avon.

• George Randall : All my life I've been bothered with hysterical women. I don't suppose I'll ever be completely happy until I marry one 'em.

• Sid : Don't you think this getting fired all the time is gonna be bad for your reputation?

  George Randall : Lincoln got fired several times.

  Sid : Yeah, I know, but, show business was different in those days.

• George Randall : Oh, I remember you. You're the guy that let Revere tear up my contract.

  Fred Harris : Leave Revere to me and come to work on Monday morning. She's going to be duck soup. Harris always come through.

• Ruth Williams : If you don't use me, I'll have to try another show. I'm not going to give up now.

  George Randall : Oh, yes you are; even if I have to spank some sense into you.

• George Randall : [singing]  Your own quiet way, You played Delilah in your own quiet way, You came by and with a look of a dove, Dropped your glove, And sold me down that river known as love...

• George Randall : [singing]  What Joan of Arc did with a whole brigade, You did with a single kiss...

• George Randall : Hyacinth?

  Peggy Revere : Yes! Hyacinth.

• George Randall : Listen, Hayward, we're still set with dress rehearsal. You line up all the critics in town and bring them down to the theater and I'll turn it on for them - with a girl that's got a little talent, this show will get by! If the critics say it's in the bag, we'll open tonight anyway. What can we lose?