Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Tim Ryan: Mr. Kennedy

Quotes 

• Mr. Kennedy : Why should a man be worried with two such girls. One that's never here and the one that is here is a wack!

• Mr. Kennedy : I've decided to give you your job back.

  Beverly Ross : Well, thanks Mr. Kennedy, but I'm not cut out to be a switchboard operator.

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no, no. I mean on the air with your own program, Reveille with Beverly - at a substantial raise, of course.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, you said you didn't like swing?

  Mr. Kennedy : I said that? Now, you know the majority of our listeners prefer Freddie Slack to Beethoven and Bob Crosby to Mendelssohn.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, what about Vernon Lewis?

  Mr. Kennedy : Vernon Lewis? By the time he gets back, we'll have television. And who could stand looking at that face?

• Beverly Ross : You used to prefer the Classics?

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no. I want something that will put you in the groove, rather solid, through the gate. Classics are off the cob, in shallow water. They're icky. Icky?

  Beverly Ross : Yes, icky.

• Mr. Kennedy : I'd like some records.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, perhaps a concerto?

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no. I want something hot. One that - will give you the hives.

  Beverly Ross : You mean jive.

  Mr. Kennedy : Jive, yes, jive.

• Mr. Kennedy : [on the phone to the receptionist]  Elsie - get me Lamb, Curry and Rice...

  [gruffly] 

  Mr. Kennedy : No, I'm not hungry, that's the name of our advertising firm, remember?