Greenwich Village (1944)

Carmen Miranda: Princess Querida O'Toole

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• Princess Querida O'Toole : Would you like to take advantage of me?

• Princess Querida O'Toole : What big and strong hands, huh. These are hands that do things. Do they do things?

• Princess Querida O'Toole : Danny let's them in free for nothing. They are what you call: local colors.

• Princess Querida O'Toole : I am an Indian princess. My father was a great red chief of the Blackfoots.

• Princess Querida O'Toole : Okay, I take a hints. I don't have to fall in a house.

• Princess Querida O'Toole : Kens, for your windows, I have just the things: gorgeous droperies.

  Kenneth Harvey : Droperies?

• Danny O'Mara : That's their laboratory.

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Let them use the basement. I don't like them upstairs.

  Danny O'Mara : Why not?

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Last week the gin blown up. My apartment smells all day like the drys martini.

  Danny O'Mara : It wasn't gin, it was scotch.

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Gin or scotch, they both stinks.

• Princess Querida O'Toole : [singing]  I could have had some other guys, Some Harry, Dick or Tom, But all I want is you, You sweet incendiary bomb!

• Danny O'Mara : He gave that music to us.

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Sure he did! We are in rehearsals.

  Danny O'Mara : I got too much dough sunk in this to let anything stop me now. I've even got a *colored* act tryin' out tomorrow morning and they're rehearsing with his music.

  Hofer : Arghhh. If I have been instrumental in saving his immortal music from such desecration, then, already I have been repaid.

• Princess Querida O'Toole : O'Shea, the tops of the evenin' to ya.

  Police Officer O'Shea : What's this Princess? I didn't know you were Irish?

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Sure! And would I be anything else? Born in the Count of Corks!

• Princess Querida O'Toole : Look, O'Shea, you see that man there in the street with the bundles under his arms?

  Police Officer O'Shea : Yeah.

  Princess Querida O'Toole : He just tried to sell me some moonshines.

  Police Officer O'Shea : Tried to sell you what?

  Princess Querida O'Toole : Moonshines. Whiskey. Scotch whiskey. He's a bootslegger.

  Police Officer O'Shea : Are you sure?

  Princess Querida O'Toole : As sure as my name is Querida O'Tooles!

• Princess Querida O'Toole : I don't know anything. I give you my honor!

• Princess Querida O'Toole : [singing]  I want my hips to say "hip-hip-hooray!"

• Princess Querida O'Toole : [singing]  I don't want a Romeo, I don't want a romance, No, I only want to dance, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dance, Any band that is handy, Can make me feel dandy, I don't need a brandy for kicks, a-ha, Give me a rhythm that is Latin, And I'll show Manhattan, My South American tricks, Samba!

• Princess Querida O'Toole : [singing]  I want to pick 'em up and lay 'im down, I don't care for a hoochie-coochie, And I don't like the shimmy, Trick my feet to a tropic beat, And gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme...