Twentieth Century (1934)

Charles Lane: Max Jacobs

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• Oscar Jaffe : You amoeba.

  Max Jacobs : It's the truth, whether you know it or not.

  Oscar Jaffe : Owen, take this creature who came to me as an office boy as Max Mendlebaum and who is now Max Jacobs for some mysterious reason and throw him into the street.

• Oliver Webb : Now, that Hoboken Cinderella isn't going to do. That kind of acting is for pins in a basement.

  Max Jacobs : You're telling me. She's hopeless! And the worst of it is that Jaffe's going to blame me for the fact that a lingerie model hasn't turned out to be a - Bernhardt. The more you direct her, the worse she gets.

• Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Maxie! Maxie! Maxie! Oh, my sweetheart. My darling. My angel.

  Max Jacobs : I got a new Somerset Maugham play for you. It just came out by plane.

  Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka : Oh, Sweet. That's divine!