Syncopation (1942)

Frank Jenks: Smiley Jackson

Quotes 

• Smiley Jackson : Say, cutie, uh, how do you look in tights?

  Johnny Schumacher : She's not in show business.

  Smiley Jackson : Oh, too bad. I got a marvellous spot in my show for a girl in tights.

• Smiley Jackson : I'm the guy with the golden apple tree, and the little Miss is gonna shake 'em down for us.

• Smiley Jackson : The way she massages the ivories, we'll be a sensation.

• Smiley Jackson : Some crowd, huh?

  Cafe Singer : I'll say. Makes me feel like the third man in the telephone booth.

• 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...

• 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,