Syncopation (1942)

Bonita Granville: Kit Latimer

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Quotes 

• Kit Latimer : I've never been anywhere like this before. I never even knew it was here.

  Johnny Schumacher : Well, that's Chicago.

  Kit Latimer : Chicago.

  Johnny Schumacher : It's you and me. "Oh I see, flashing, that this America is only you and me. Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me. Past, present, future, are you and me."

  Kit Latimer : Walt Whitman, isn't it?

  Johnny Schumacher : Yeah.

  Kit Latimer : He's my favorite poet, too.

• Paul Porter : I've always liked sweet music. This stuff makes me jumpy.

  Kit Latimer : Well, that's what it's supposed to do.

• Kit Latimer : Oh, it's wonderful, Johnny!

  Johnny Schumacher : You really think so?

  Kit Latimer : Oh, swell.

  Johnny Schumacher : Oh, uh, it'll never be like Rex, though.

  Kit Latimer : You shouldn't be! You've got a style of your own. Rex is - is New Orleans, Basin Street, and you're Chicago. Ohh, you pick up where Basin Street leaves off.

• Johnny Schumacher : The world is yours, you do what you want with it.

  Kit Latimer : I wanna put it in my pocket and dance on the moon.

• Kit Latimer : They're not dancing just to forget their troubles. They're getting something they can carry away. They're dancing to music that comes from the heart, music that's American-born.

• Kit Latimer : Wonderful, Johnny.

  Johnny Schumacher : Ah, the one time you people come clear across town to hear us, we have to sound like six drunken plumbers in a tin shop.

• Kit Latimer : You almost had her, Rex. Someday you'll get her, Rex. Some day you'll bring her down.

• Johnny Schumacher : We'll meet again somewhere.

  Kit Latimer : Where one and one are three.

• Kit Latimer : Don't leave me! Please, Johnny.

  Johnny Schumacher : I was just gonna put on the light.

  Kit Latimer : I like the dark.

• Kit Latimer : When did you first know you loved me, Johnny?

  Johnny Schumacher : When I started to take showers with my clothes on.

• Smiley Jackson : Just another jazz band.

  Kit Latimer : You're slipping, Smiley. Listen, can't you hear? It's more than just jazz. it's got kind of a swing. It's new.

  Smiley Jackson : It's too new for me.

  Kit Latimer : Listen to that horn...

• Johnny Schumacher : I wonder how long this will last for us.

  Kit Latimer : It was worthwhile, even if it lasts only tonight.

• [last lines] 

  Kit Latimer : Listen.

• Kit Latimer : It seems to me I've heard that tune years ago.

  Smiley Jackson : Well, look, cutie, just between you and me and the lamppost, I picked it up on a Mississippi River boat from a boot black boy. They play it slow in Memphis, they sing it blue in St. Louis. But up here in the windy city, we just give it a needle and rock it back to life with that ol' razzmatazz.

  Kit Latimer : It's still New Orleans,