King for a Day (1934)

Bill Robinson: Bill Green

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• Bill Green : [singing]  Girls, I sat up last night. Right on side the bed. Why I wrote a song that's just too bad children it will knock you dead. I know you've all danced the Charleston, The Black Bottom away. Now, stand at attention, prance awhile, dos jes as I say... Wo-doddle-e-do!

  Black Orchids : What's that?

  Bill Green : Bill Robinson's Stomp.

• Dusty Fletcher : Boy, where was you born at?

  Bill Green : I was born in Russia.

  Dusty Fletcher : What part?

  Bill Green : The darkest part of Asia.

  Dusty Fletcher : Did you ever live near the Black Sea?

  Bill Green : Brother, I bathed in the Black Sea.

  Dusty Fletcher : And you forgot to dry off.

• Parson : [singing]  For better or worse, do you take this man?

  The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon : I'm gonna take him every way I can.

  Parson : Will you keep her happy, answer?

  Bill Green : Parson, I ain't had no compliant from anyone.

  Parson : No two-timin' boy, get that in your knob.

  The Bride - Harlem Honeymoon : If he's two-timin', parson, you gonna have a funeral job.

• Bill Green : Tell Mr. Brown, Bill Green is here to see him.

  Janitor : Mr. Brown don't wanna see no Bill Green.

  Bill Green : By the way, do you play the numbers?

  Janitor : Do a horse eat corn?

  Bill Green : 4-48 tomorrow will get it.

  Janitor : Well, hush my mouth.

• Bill Green : Mr Brown, just a minute. All I want you to do is give me one chance and I know I'll make good, 'cause I've been rehearsing. And man, I've got a tap routine and I know your audience will be wild about it.

• Mr. Brown : I've got too much money invested in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.

  Bill Green : I ain't no amateur. I been on for an audience for years!

  Mr. Brown : Where did you ever dance before an audience?

  Bill Green : On the street corner.

• Mr. Brown : Here's a couple of dollars. Maybe that'll hep you get on your feet.

  Bill Green : I don't want no couple of dollars.

  Mr. Brown : Oh, no?

  Bill Green : Well, just a minute, I want a job in your show.

• Mr. Brown : Will you stop followin' me.

  Bill Green : I'm gonna follow you till I get two shades lighter.

• Mr. Brown : Your show or mine.

  Bill Green : That's all I wanna hear you say. Mine or yours.

  Mr. Brown : Mine or yours.

• Pipe Smoking Stagehand : Mr. Brown isn't cheer. You better git going.

  Bill Green : Mr. Brown ain't gonna be here. That sign don't read No Smoking. It reads Brown's Black Orchids has turned to Green and you better git going.

• Bill Green : Say, son, listen. That routine is out.

  Mr. Brown's Dance Director : What do you mean out?

  Bill Green : I mean just what I say because I've got too much money wrapped up in this show to be bothered with any amateurs.

  Mr. Brown's Dance Director : But, you can't call me an amateur. I've been in this business for the past 20 years, boy.

  Bill Green : Boy? How big does men grow where you come from? So, the 21st year, you resign. Beat it! Get on outta here. Go ahead. Get out.