Hank Mahoney: [after a cat-fight with a chorus girl] Next time I'll give you a facial instead of a scalp treatment!

Chorus Girl: I'll fix you, ya little peanut!
Eddie Kearns: Hank, did you see Queenie? What's the matter Hank, aren't ya happy? Wasn't Queenie great? Aren't ya proud of her?

Hank Mahoney: Oh, of course, Eddie. I'm glad to see her make good. Oh, but, gee, we ain't never had to get by on our legs before.

Eddie Kearns: Oh, that don't mean nothin', Hank. Those guys are not going to pay ten bucks to look at your face; this is Broadway!

Hank Mahoney: Yeah, "Broad's way!"
Uncle Jed: [Last lines] It's better to star in P-P-Pe-or, P-P-Pe - or, Osh Kosh than st-starve on Broadway.

Moe: That's a bunk!

Hank Mahoney: Now, you listen to me, Stupid, I'll handle things. Yes, and I'll have you back on Broadway and in The Palace! In less than six months.

Moe: No foolin'?

Hank Mahoney: Why, it's cream in the can, baby.

Uncle Jed: Su-Su-Sure it is. Cre-Cre-Cre. It's, it's in the can!
[the Stage Manager is yelling at the electricians in the theater rafters]

Stage Manager: [pointing to the stage] I told you, I want a spotlight *right here*!

[a miffed electrician drops a spotlight off the rafters. It lands on the stage with a crash]

Stage Manager: [cowed] Thank you.
Queenie Mahoney: Gee, this is elegant, ain't it!
Hank Mahoney: Oh, honey, with your looks and my ability, Oh, I wouldn't steer you wrong. Oh, now, don't worry. You see that electric sign with the fella in BVDs?

Queenie Mahoney: Yeah.

Hank Mahoney: Well, right there, they're going to have the Mahoney Sisters.

Queenie Mahoney: In BVDs?

Hank Mahoney: Yes, in BVD - Baby, they were plenty smart when they made you beautiful.
Hank Mahoney: Come on, let's get cleaned up before Eddie gets here. I'll run a tub for you.
Hank Mahoney: Oh, nothing doing. We're in New York to stay!

Uncle Jed: S-s-say, say listen, girls, you I-I know this town better than you do. And-and there are more sisters doing their acts over the lunch counters in New York, th-th-then over the - than in the theaters.

Hank Mahoney: Oh, you're just a crepe hanger!
Hank Mahoney: Well, we aren't leavin' this town, 'til we get a flash of Babe Ruth and Grant's Tomb.
Hank Mahoney: Oh, goodbye Uncle Jed.

Uncle Jed: If you wanna see me, just call me up.

Hank Mahoney: Yeah, fine. You're in the phone book?

Uncle Jed: You-you bet!
Eddie Kearns: Queenie! All grown up and everything!

Hank Mahoney: You see, that sisterly kiss won't be so hard to take now, will it?

Eddie Kearns: I'll say it won't!

[Eddie kisses Queenie]

Hank Mahoney: Take it big.

Eddie Kearns: I did!
Eddie Kearns: Gee... you were a funny looking thing when I first saw you, with those gangly legs and freckles. But, you certainly turned out to be a beautiful girl!

Queenie Mahoney: Oh, I'll go get some clothes on.
Eddie Kearns: "Mrs. Eddie Kearns" - sounds pretty doesn't it?

Hank Mahoney: Swell, Eddie!

Eddie Kearns: Yeah, and you can feature that anytime, in the electric lights.
Stage Manager: Wait! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Listen, toots, what's the matter with the left leg?

Chorus Girl: Well, I've got a headache.

Stage Manager: Well, go on, sit down, take a load off your mind.
Hank Mahoney: Say, maybe we better get undressed. Come on.
Hank Mahoney: In a minute, I'm gonna lay that dame like a roll of linoleum!
Hank Mahoney: And don't forget, we do things intimately.

[Wink]
Hank Mahoney: Say, you've been asking for trouble and now you're gonna get it! You great, big, peroxide-headed, dizzy blonde, you! What are you thinking of that!
Queenie Mahoney: Oh, dear, I'm just shaky all over!

Hank Mahoney: Oh, Queenie, will you stop. You're gettin' me nervous now. It ain't gonna be a bit different than it was in Reading, PA and we're going over just as big!

Queenie Mahoney: Oh... do you think so?

Hank Mahoney: Why, it's cream in the can, baby.
Jacques Warriner: You think it's a good show then, Zany?

Francis Zanfield: It's just an oil well, that's all.

Jacques Warriner: Alright, let's see your gusher.

Dave: Looks like a mine to me, from all the gold diggers you got in the troupe!
Hank Mahoney: One more crack from you, bimbo, and you'll be holding a lily!
Stagehand: Listen, Mahoney, we want you up on the prow of that boat. Come on now. Take, get your clothes off.

Queenie Mahoney: Oh, but, I don't want to take my clothes off!
Stage Manager: You were great Mahoney!

Chorus Girl: I'll say you were! You'll be riding in a Rolls Royce by Thursday!

[laughter]

Stage Manager: What a flock of Johns will be waiting at that Stage Door.

Queenie Mahoney: Go on! You can't kid me!

Stage Manager: I'm not kidding you. I may be there myself!

[More laughter]
Queenie Mahoney: Say Hank, do you think that's all I'll get to do? Go on without any clothes on?

Hank Mahoney: Well, not if I can help it. But, you don't need to worry. Say you got a lot more on when you ain't got anything - from most of the dames I've seen around here!

Queenie Mahoney: Yeah! Well, I guess I'll go get undressed again.
Eddie Kearns: Well, let's go and get a bowl of chop suey and we'll rewrite the show!

Hank Mahoney: Well, if you'll write me back in the show, I'd go for a bowl of anything.

Eddie Kearns: Well, you can - get most anything out of a bowl of chop suey.
Queenie Mahoney: Oh, Eddie, don't be such a crab!
Eddie Kearns: Why do you let a guy like that hang around you?

Queenie Mahoney: Say, will you lay off him! I'm sick of hearing you crab all the time!

Eddie Kearns: I'll give him a sock in the nose!

Queenie Mahoney: You and how many others?
Hank Mahoney: I'm going to give her the swellest party she's ever had! Oh, Eddie, I love her so much!

Eddie Kearns: You sure are regular, Hank.
Party Guest: I brought the radio along with me.

Party Guest #2: What can you get with that?

Party Guest: Why, gee, I can get Chicago with that?

Party Guest #2: Chicago? Why that's nothin'. I got Scotland last night.

Party Guest: How do you know you got Scotland?

Party Guest #2: Why, I heard the guy singing "The best things in life - are free".
Jacques Warriner: I'd like to do a lot of things for you Queenie. How would you like an apartment, all your own? Say, on Park Avenue? And a car, all your own? Perhaps a Rolls Royce? Oh, and a lot of nice things.
Stew - Mr. Zanfield's Assistant: Come on, little love boat, let's have this dance.
Hank Mahoney: Say, what kind of a sap are you, anyway?

Eddie Kearns: What do you mean?

Hank Mahoney: Are you gonna let a John like that steal her away from you because he's got a little more Jack?
Hank Mahoney: You're a coward! You're afraid of Jacques Warriner! Or, you'd go out and fight for her! But, you're just yella!

Eddie Kearns: You think I'm yella, heh?

Hank Mahoney: Sure, you're yella!

Eddie Kearns: Well, I'll show you how much I'm yella!

Hank Mahoney: Well, you're yella! You hear me! You're yella!

Eddie Kearns: I'm yella, heh?

Hank Mahoney: Yella! I said you are! You're yella! You're yella! You hear me!
Queenie Mahoney: Listen, there's gonna be no part in your show for that dame! Get me?
Hank Mahoney: [Instructions to the piano player] Now, give us a pick-up for an introduction and a couple of choruses. And swell to the finish. But you follow us, not us you.
Turpe - Costumer: Stop? Stop! Girls! Girls! Girls! Be careful of my hats.

Chorus Girl: Well, we gotta get down on the stage.

Turpe - Costumer: I don't care. I can't allow you to ruin 'em.

Wardrobe Lady: I told you... they were too high and too wide.

Turpe - Costumer: Well, big mama, I design the costumes for the show, not the doors for the theater.

The Broadway Melody Quotes

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The Broadway Melody short comments

Damien 2022-04-23 07:04:07

I feel that my sister is much prettier than my sister, especially the close-ups of the faces when lying on the bed. The figure is also exquisite. In addition, the elder sister loves the younger sister, but does not love the fiancé. Is it the earliest gay film?
Jasmin 2022-04-19 09:02:44

1.5. Oscar's first audio BP. Early musical films belonged to the middle form of the transition from silent films to sound films, and the style could not be separated from exaggerated movements and facial expressions. The characters are heavily masked, the poor boy and the rich, the money-loving girl and the good girlfriend have long been in a fixed pattern, and the plot is just slowly approaching this pattern, without any intention to move closer to reality. , resulting in the theme of the film can only belong to the children's play in fairy tales.