Greenwich Village (1944)

William Bendix: Danny O'Mara

Quotes 

• Danny O'Mara : Oh, speaking of talent, here's the little girl I'm going to star in my show.

  Bonnie Watson : [singing]  Everybody's hand in hand, Swingin' down the lane, Everybody's feelin' grand, Swingin' down the lane, That's the time I miss the bliss, That we might have known...

• Danny O'Mara : What can Ziegfeld do for her that I can't do? Stick some feathers in her dome and have her comin' down them steps, "I am a prick." I'm gonna give 'em somethin' different! I got the best guys in the business to help me put it on.

• Danny O'Mara : It was okay, but, I don't know, Shug, you weren't at your best tonight.

  Bonnie Watson : No?

  Danny O'Mara : No, you were only sensational. Usually you kill the people.

• Danny O'Mara : Now, finish your drink and blow! And the next time I catch you hangin' around trying to talk to her, I'm gonna turn your head under your arm.

• Danny O'Mara : You're gettin' better Princess. This is one time a guy pulled a cork and you were here before the pop.

• Brophy , Bonnie Watson , Danny O'Mara : [singing]  It's all for art's sake, The girls who pose, In hardly any clothes...

• Danny O'Mara : Good mornin', Sugar.

  Bonnie Watson : Hello, Danny.

• 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.

• Danny O'Mara : You're new around her, ain't ya? You don't dance like nobody I know.

  Ordway : [in drag]  I'm from Vienna. And this gay music makes me so home sick for my beloved Danube.

  Danny O'Mara : Oh, is that so. Is that your husband?

  Ordway : You silly, you tickle me.

  Danny O'Mara : Oh, not here Queenie, in front of all these people. I know a better place.

• 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.