Gold Dust Gertie (1931)
Chic Johnson: Elmer Guthrie
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Quotes
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : There's no use in trying to horse little Gertie around. I was born in Arizona and I know my ponies.
Elmer Guthrie : But you can't make jackasses out of us.
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : And cut out the wise cracks, I know all the answers.
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Elmer Guthrie : I wish I was the lemon or the sugar in your tea, Cause then with every sip you'd take, You'd give a kiss to me.
[kiss]
Mabel Guthrie : Oh, that's wonderful! Oh, Elmer, do you really feel that way?
Elmer Guthrie : Do I feel that way? Last night I felt every way.
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Elmer Guthrie : Let's show more of the figure and less of the suit.
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George Harlan : You will see in a glance...
Elmer Guthrie : Just how much a woman wants to show, when bathing. The Acme Company gained recognition and sales by taking off that much from the old model bathing suit and let a woman expose her ankles to the public gaze.
John Aberdeen Arnold : It created a sensation. It was vulgar!
Elmer Guthrie : But, it made money!
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Mabel Guthrie : Hand over your paychecks.
Lucille Harlan : And your cash. Every penny of it.
Mabel Guthrie : Here, give me that!
Elmer Guthrie : That's nothin' but a pool check.
Mabel Guthrie : Do your bathing at home.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : [knock on the door] Who is it?
Elmer Guthrie : Me!
George Harlan : I!
Elmer Guthrie : Us!
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Come in. All of you. Well, looks like old home week. Welcome to my pajama party.
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Elmer Guthrie : She'd take the hump off of a camel's back.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : You're just a couple of minnows. I'm after big fish and I don't mean mackerel.
George Harlan : You mean you're going to make him fall?
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Fall? He's on his back now. I'm picking him up and leading him around. I'm teaching him to walk, skip, hop and jump. Now, you be good little boys and you can stick around. You start something and I'll have you fired.
Elmer Guthrie : The weaker sex.
Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Yes, sir, and going stronger.
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Elmer Guthrie : They showed some of the knee. It saved the firm, sir. The showing of the knee.
George Harlan : Now, we can rip off even more - and make ourselves millionaires over night.
John Aberdeen Arnold : That is enough. A woman's body is sacred. And her *nudity* should be guarded from the public gaze.
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Gertrude 'Gertie' Dale : Look! I've got a sucker!
George Harlan : That's nothing new.
Elmer Guthrie : That makes a boatload of suckers.