Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Charles Winninger: Sam Demming

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Quotes 

• Eddie : You want me to drive you out to the ballgame this afternoon, Mr. Sam?

  Sam Demming : No, I'm sick of ballgames.

  Eddie : The Giants are playing the Cards.

  Sam Demming : I don't care if the Senators are playing the horses!

• Patsy Demming : He's kept you on ice for the past five years. Hasn't he?

  Sam Demming : And don't speak about your father like he was a side of halibut!

• Sam Demming : What is this? Hey, hey, what's going on here?

  Jonnie Demming : We're doing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and I'm playing Simon Legree.

• Sam Demming : Ah, honey, school doesn't last forever. It just seems like it does.

• Sam Demming : When you see Jonnie, give him both barrels.

• Jonnie Demming : Hey, Pop, where are you going?

  Sam Demming : I'm going out to the ballpark where you're always trying to send me. And if they've made that arty, you'll find me a Grogan's Bar. Stinkin'!

• Sam Demming : Lay off of the arty stuff. You were born in a split week between Tulsa and Little Rock. Your first bottle was two parts milk and one part hokum. You learned your alphabet out of Joe Miller's joke book. Hokum is in your blood, kid.

• Sam Demming : Now, there's a show that makes sense and it's got what you've lost since you hit the top.

  Jonnie Demming : What's that?

  Sam Demming : Heart.

  Jonnie Demming : Oh, Dad, you can't sell that old applesauce to Broadway anymore.

• Felix Gross : I've got a performer for you that can't miss. You remember Trix.

  Sam Demming : Oh, yeah. How are you?

  Trixie Simpson : I don't know. I haven't had a physical lately.

• Sam Demming : Get aloud of this. This leaps! All right, boys, give me the groovy - I mean the gravy. Ready? Go.

  [singing] 

  Sam Demming : Styles in music always change, There's always some entirely different things, But no matter how they change, Its not as good as in the good old days, I love corny music, Where the trombone blows, Me-aaa-aah, I love corny music, When the band all goes

  Sam Demming , Tommy Dorsey : Me-aaa-ahh...

  Sam Demming : I won't say that swing bands aren't great bands, They're up-to-date bands, I agree...

• Sam Demming : [singing]  Oh, you beautiful doll, You great, big, beautiful doll, Let me put my arms about you, I could never live without you, Oh, you beautiful doll, You great, big, beautiful doll...

• Sam Demming : No ad-libbing.