Babes in Arms (1939)

Charles Winninger: Joe Moran

Quotes 

• Joe Moran : Here's a toast to vaudeville, the greatest entertainment in the world. It made me what I am today, a papa. And it's pretty nice, I tell you. Having that little home down there on Long Island where you can take the wife and kiddies. Where you can lay off all summer long, in the country, instead of a crowded boarding house in the roaring '40s where there's nothing but streets to play in, like I had when I was a kid. What other business is like that, I ask you? There ain't none! Vaudeville, boy, you're something.

• Mickey Moran : Dad, there's a lot of entertainment on this side of the room. You folks are responsible for it. We're your kids, chips off the old block. Most of us were born in theaters, greasepaint in our veins. And you say you don't want us to go on a stage. No. You want us to be lawyers and brokers on Wall Street and your girls to marry rich guys.

  Joe Moran : I suppose that's bad being a broker.

  Mickey Moran : Well, Clark Gable ain't on relief.