The Gang's All Here (1943)
Charlotte Greenwood: Mrs. Peyton Potter
Quotes
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : [after meeting Dorita] That hat! I'd better watch my lampshades and bell-cords!
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Tony De Marco : [noticing Vivian Potter for the first time] You are beautiful!
Mrs. Peyton Potter : He speaks English!
Edie Allen : Its wolf talk, that's international.
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Peyton Potter : [inspecting lipstick on his handkerchief] Hmm... ketchup?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : No doubt. And from a Brazilian tomato.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Well old swoopy, swapping swoops at your age. What have you got to say about that?
Peyton Potter : I told you darling we were simply discussing investments.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Ah, I remember you from your pictures in the newspapers, or was it the Police Gazette? How are you?
Dorita : I'm very well to do. Thank you.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Ah, you do very well what you do do.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Peyton will never allow it.
Phil Baker : Not even with some gentle persuasion?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : What do you mean?
Phil Baker : Let's see. I've got it! Your boudoir.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : What are you talking about?
Phil Baker : I'm talking about the biggest scene of your career. Come along, you old tenderized ham.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Well, at last, I'm worth something.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Peytie, can I help it if I'm irresistible?
Peyton Potter : It's that vitamin B1. I told you you were taking too much. You're overdoing it.
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Phil Baker : Blossom, you old cabbage, you!
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Oh, boy, it's more like coleslaw now.
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Phil Baker : You know what to do now?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : No, my mama never told me.
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Mrs. Peyton Potter : Don't give him anything stronger than lemonade. The last time he had champagne was on our honeymoon. It was at Niagara. He thought he was a barrel. He wanted me to roll over the falls with him.
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Phil Baker : [Phil and Mrs. Potter are in her boudoir] You know what to do now?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : No, my mama never told me. Don't you worry about me.
[a knock at the door]
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Here he is.
Phil Baker : Come on, baby. Do your stuff.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Come in.
[Enter Peyton]
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Oh, Peyton.
Peyton Potter : You sent for me, dear?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Yes, I did.
Peyton Potter : What's Mr. Barlow doing here?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : [the ensuing scene is acted in a very florid melodrama style, very Clyde Fitch] Protect me. This man is blackmailing us.
Peyton Potter : Blackmail? What's he want, money?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Would it were money he wanted.
Peyton Potter : What do you mean by that?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : He threatens me unless I allow my daughter, your daughter, our daughter to dance in the show with Tony De Marco.
Peyton Potter : Why, that's unthinkable. Oh, you blackguard. Oh, you gangster. How could you think of such a fiendish scheme?
Phil Baker : Now, Mr. Potter, the only decision I want you to make is this: shall I introduce Vivian as the charming child of Mr. And Mrs. Peyton Potter... or shall I simply announce, ladies and gentlemen... I give you the talented daughter of the notorious Blossom Murphy?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Ohhh!
Peyton Potter : You know her name?
[to Vivian]
Peyton Potter : You told him your name?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : [tragically] No, Peyton, he knew me... in Paris.
Peyton Potter : In Paris? You scoundrel! Out of her dark past which she has lived down so beautifully... so gracefully, you come at a time like this to blackmail her.
Phil Baker : Ugly word, "blackmail. " Don't say it again.
Peyton Potter : Blackmail, blackmail, blackmail! How much money does he want?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : I don't know.
Phil Baker : As I said before, or should have said, you cannot bribe me with gold. It is the artistry that was Blossom Murphy that I would restore to the world through her daughter Vivian.
Mrs. Peyton Potter : Oh, Peyton, you won't make her do it! You won't make her appear in that show! I would die!
Peyton Potter : I see no other way out, darling. Mr. Bailey has us in his power.
Phil Baker : Will you give your consent, Mrs. Potter?
Mrs. Peyton Potter : If Mr. Potter insists!
Peyton Potter : What else can I do? But I'm not finished with you yet. I'll see a good lawyer today to deal with you for this outrage.
Phil Baker : My brother in Brooklyn, he's a wiz on blackmail cases.
Peyton Potter : Oh, is he?
Phil Baker : Yes.
Peyton Potter : Really!