Everybody Sing (1938)

Fanny Brice: Olga Chekaloff

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• Olga Chekaloff : You make trouble for me? How do you like that? In Russia I vas bitten by a volfhound, my mother vas lost in a snowstorm, my father vas sent to Siberia, your mother and father are yelling their heads off, you sister's taking her singing lessons, I've got exactly four squabs and I can't find out how many's for dinner! And you're gonna make trouble for me?

• Hillary Bellaire : Olga!

  Olga Chekaloff : All right, all right, I know, my cap's on crooked.

  Hillary Bellaire : Good heavens, what next?

  Olga Chekaloff : Meatballs!

• Taxi driver : Look, Toots, what about this 2.85? I gotta get going, I've been here twenty minutes already.

  Olga Chekaloff : You've been here tventy minutes? I've been here eleven years. I stopped yelling for my money ten years ago.

• Madame Le Brouchette : It should be:

  [singing] 

  Madame Le Brouchette : The one I love -

  Olga Chekaloff : [Pats her shoulder]  Eat your spaghetti!

• Hillary Bellaire : Quiet, quiet! Is this a madhouse?

  Olga Chekaloff : Yes sir. I mean no sir.

• Diana Bellaire : Olga, this isn't what I want. I said strawberry jam.

  Olga Chekaloff : You said blackberry, but I gave you the raspberry.

  Diana Bellaire : Olga, your cap is on crooked.

• John Fleming : Olga?

  Olga Chekaloff : Yes, sir?

  John Fleming : What do *you* think of Mr. Bellaire's play?

  Olga Chekaloff : Vell, it depends on how I feel. Sometimes I feel it ain't so bad and sometimes I feel it ain't so good. But I don't like to say.

  John Fleming : Speak up! What's wrong with it?

  Olga Chekaloff : Vell, since you asked me, he goes to her and he says, "Darling, vere utterly mad, you know." Den, she says, "All my life I been a slave. Fea-red, bound by convenchens." Convenchens? Who knows vhat dat means anyvay? It's ridiculous! In de first place, people don't talk like dat. And, in de second place - people don't talk like dat. Convenchens?

• Olga Chekaloff : Suspended again?

  Judy Bellaire : Not suspended, expelled.

  Olga Chekaloff : Good! You got a diploma?

• Judy Bellaire : Miss Colvin said that if I kept on the way I was going, I'd come to a bad end.

  Olga Chekaloff : Don't you vorry, darling. That's vhat they said about me.

• Olga Chekaloff : Vhat am I, iron? Who don't tink about love? Morning, noon, and night - especially night. I can remember, vell, it was summer, de moon, de river, Boris vas teaching me how to act. He said I had to lurn all about life and luv. Oh, boy, did I lurn.

• Olga Chekaloff : Vhat a coincidence. Only last veek I dreamed I vas in my big, golden bed eatin' caviar and Boris was pourin' me tea. There ve vere. Just the four of us. Lemon and tea, Boris and me. I-yi-yi-yi...

• Olga Chekaloff : Mr. Bellaire, the monkey men are here.

  Hillary Bellaire : The monkey men? What the devil do we want with monkey men?

  Diana Bellaire : We need another monkey. The one we rehearsed with last night, bit poor, dear Jerrold.

  Hillary Bellaire : Good! I'll give the monkey a run of the play contract. Send the monkeys away.

  Olga Chekaloff : Yes sir. Ders one thing ve don't need in dis house, it's more monkeys.

• Olga Chekaloff : [singing]  Quainty, dainty me, Gentle as can be, I'm even shy whenever I express myself, I'm so demure I blush when I undress myself...

• Olga Chekaloff : [singing]  I flutter like a butterfly so daintily, But somehow no one ever flutters after me..

• Judy Bellaire : This is the chance I've been waiting for all my life!

  Olga Chekaloff : All her life. Listen to her. All your life? You haven't lived yet!

• Olga Chekaloff : That reminds me of something.

  Ricky Saboni : What?

  Olga Chekaloff : I can't remember.