Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

George Murphy: King Shaw

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• King Shaw : The more you know about women, the less you know about women.

  Johnny Brett : Maybe it's time you find out they're not all alike.

• Johnny Brett : [singing]  So, move Grant's Tomb to Union Square

  King Shaw : And put Brooklyn anywhere

  Johnny Brett , King Shaw : But please, please, I beg on my knees, Don't monkey with old Broadway...

• Johnny Brett , King Shaw : [singing]  Please don't monkey with Broadway, Though it's tawdry and plain, It's a lovely old lane, Full of landmarks galore and memories gay...

• Johnny Brett : Come on. Come on! Get out there. We'll give these people a show.

  King Shaw : Okay, boy.

  Johnny Brett : And remember, you never know who may be out there. So give!

• King Shaw : And we came to New York to get on Broadway.

  Johnny Brett : At least after five years of hoofing we're in the right town.

  King Shaw : Yeah, but who knows it except us? Just a couple of taxi dancers, pushing around a lot of female lonely-hearts at five cents a dance. And doing a specialty act - without pay.

  [sarcastically] 

  King Shaw : What a career.

• King Shaw : Attractive? She's the tops, Johnny!

• King Shaw : [singing]  Between you and me, To use the vernacular, You've got what they call, "Oomph" in your eyes...

• Johnny Brett : Come on, we'd better go through your routine.

  King Shaw : Routine. Routine! Routine! Don't you ever think of anything else?

  Johnny Brett : Okay. It's your routine, not mine.

• Johnny Brett : What's the matter, King?

  King Shaw : So you took Clare out to lunches?

  Johnny Brett : No crime in that, is there?

  King Shaw : No, no. We share everything.

• King Shaw : Well, well. The more you know about women, the less you know about women. Gosh, I was beginning to think I had a permanent lease behind the eight ball.