Babes in Arms (1939)

June Preisser: Rosalie Essex

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Quotes 

• Rosalie Essex : How much do you need?

  Mickey Moran : Well, let me see. First of all, we're going to use a barn that some actors used last summer and turned it into an outdoor theater. I figured if we all pitched in together - that is, for the scenery and the costumes and everything - it would run us about $287.

  Rosalie Essex : Have you got it yet?

  Mickey Moran : No.

  Rosalie Essex : Well, you have now.

• Mickey Moran : [at rehearsal]  Ah, terrible. Terrible! Don, terrible!

  Rosalie Essex : I didn't think so.

  Mickey Moran : No, but, it's the way you read the lines. I mean, there's no feeling to it or anything! Look, maybe we'd better try it here on the couch. Don, come over here and sit beside her. I want a more *virile* approach, like Clark Gable would do it. Now, come on, do it once for me, will you?

  Don Brice : Your Majesty, I have a feeling I'm going to find Egypt fascinating.

  Mickey Moran : No, no, that's still not it, Don. Let me show you, will you? Just stand up there for a minute. Look.

  [with a Clark Gable accent] 

  Mickey Moran : Now, see here, Cleo. You've stalled me for the last time. You can't push Mark Antony around like that and get away with it, see. Last month, I took over the south side. Now, I'm taking over the palace. And what's more, I'm taking over you, see? Get your things packed. We're taking a honeymoon on the Nile. I've got a barge waiting with the motor running.

  [stops the Gable accent] 

  Mickey Moran : Now, you see, Don? That's more the way Gable would do it.

  Don Brice : Well, Gable and I work differently.

  Mickey Moran : Yeah, that's why he works more often.

• Mickey Moran : Miss Essex.

  Rosalie Essex : Oh, don't call me that. Call me Baby, everybody does.

  Mickey Moran : Well, all right. What do you do with yourself, Baby?

• Mickey Moran : Let me show you what I mean, huh? Now, this is the way Barrymore would do it. Now, watch, Sid.

  [with Lionel Barrymore accent] 

  Mickey Moran : Now, see here, Cleo. This isn't by chance one of your latest admirers, is it?

  Rosalie Essex : Why, uncle, I don't know what you mean.

  Mickey Moran : [with Barrymore accent]  Don't try to act innocent, my child. The whole town's talking. Now, see here, sonny, we don't like strangers hanging around this place. I'll give you just 48 hours to get out.

  [steps the to other side of Rosalie, drops the Barrymore accent] 

  Mickey Moran : Pardon me, Don.

  [with a Clark Gable accent] 

  Mickey Moran : When I go, Cleo goes with me. I love her, you see? Out of the way, uncle. We're leaving.

  [returns to the other side of Rosalie, back with a Barrymore accent] 

  Mickey Moran : Now, look here, Cleo. I'm your uncle. I love you as if you were my own niece. But this man is marrying you just for your money.

  [returns to the other side of Rosalie, back with a Gable accent] 

  Mickey Moran : She's going with me, understand?

  Rosalie Essex : Do you love me because I'm worth $50 million?

  Mickey Moran : [with a Gable accent]  Nonsense. I'd love you if you only had $40 million. Money isn't everything.