Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

Osgood Perkins: Morty Wethered

Quotes 

• Hugo : Now, you know what to do, don't you?

  Genevieve Larkin : Yes.

  Morty Wethered : Well, if she doesn't, she's changed a lot in the last few days.

  Genevieve Larkin : Oh, it's so hard to be good under the capitalistic system.

• Morty Wethered : [trying to sell a life insurance policy to his boss, J.J. Hobart]  When the captain goes over the side for the last time, life insurance takes the wheel, and brings the ship safely into port.

• Genevieve Larkin : What's Sally supposed to do? Twiddle her thumbs?

  Morty Wethered : Sally can twiddle anything she wants.

• Morty Wethered : Gen, you've got to think of something, my mind is blank.

  Genevieve Larkin : J.J. is likely to find that out too.

• Morty Wethered : Gen, you're a genius.

  Genevieve Larkin : Just don't you forget it.

• Genevieve Larkin : Is that J.J. Hobart?

  Morty Wethered : That's the guy.

  Genevieve Larkin : That old fellow? Why, Morty, he's got two feet in the grave already.

  Morty Wethered : Well, all we've got to do is to make him lie down in it.

  Genevieve Larkin : Don't you worry. I'll have him pull the dirt in over him.

  Morty Wethered : Good girl.

• Hugo : Ask him to dance. Keep him on his feet.

  Morty Wethered : Get him overheated.

• Morty Wethered : I don't feel like napping just now, Miss...

  Genevieve Larkin : Larkin. Genevieve Larkin.

• Morty Wethered : It says here in this paper that Stanley J. MacNeil dropped dead.

  J.J. Hobart : Stan MacNeil? Why, I saw him only last week.

  Morty Wethered : Well, after all, he was getting on. How old does it say he was?

  Hugo : Fifty-eight.

  Morty Wethered : Well, ripe old age.

  Hugo : Yeah.

  J.J. Hobart : What did he die of?

  Hugo : Eh, overwork.