Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)

Alice White: Dixie Dugan

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• Dixie Dugan : Say, I've heard plenty about that Buelow. He's a big shot. I've seen out front of our show several times. You know, I read somewhere he gets five thousand a week.

  Jimmie Doyle : Five thousand what? Cigar coupons?

  Dixie Dugan : If you had his power and his bankroll...

  Jimmie Doyle : Yes, I know the type, the minute he meets a girl he starts feeling her ribs and talking about a screen test.

• Dixie Dugan : Hello, there. I'm Miss Dixie Dugan. I'm going to be on a contract with the studio.

  Reception Clerk : Who isn't.

  Dixie Dugan : I've come all the way out from New York.

  Reception Clerk : Who hasn't.

  Dixie Dugan : I wanna see the boss.

  Reception Clerk : Who doesn't.

• Dixie Dugan : You're a peach, Mr. Buelow.

  Frank Buelow - The Director : Oh, now, now, now, you mustn't call me Mr. Buelow. Call me Daddy.

• Frank Buelow - The Director : I'll arrange a nice little dinner tonight up at my place in the Hills.

  Dixie Dugan : Oh, a Hollywood party?

  Frank Buelow - The Director : Well, sort of a party. Just two people who are interested in each others future. I'll have the contract there, waiting for your signature.

• Dixie Dugan : [backstage, after the show has flopped]  You could have sent the audience home in a taxi.

• Frank Buelow - The Director : Miss Dugan, have you ever thought of going into pictures?

  Dixie Dugan : You mean the galloping snapshots?

  Frank Buelow - The Director : Yes. You know, Hollywood needs fresh, new personalities.

  Dixie Dugan : Oh, I'd just love to be out there amongst those cowboys and those Indians.

  Frank Buelow - The Director : Well, I'm the fellow who can put you there.

• Frank Buelow - The Director : I also have the privilege of selecting my own cast, too. I make these trips each week to discover new talent.

  Dixie Dugan : Well, you're one up on Columbus, right now, you've discovered me.

• Jimmie Doyle : What was that mug trying to sell you?

  Dixie Dugan : I'm going to Hollywood to be a picture star. Mr. Buelow can fix it up for me in a big way with sound effects!

• Jimmie Doyle : Now, get this Dixie Dugan, you let this big wind storm kid you into going to Hollywood, you and I are all washed up! And I'll never, never speak to you again.

  Dixie Dugan : But, I'll be speaking to you - and all the rest of the world, over the Vitaphone.

• Dixie Dugan : I can't go back and tell 'em I flopped before I started.

• Donna Harris : Listen, Dixie, they've got one thing I haven't: youth. Young necks, young legs and young eyes and slim, soft young bodies. And when it comes to those things, you can't fool the camera.

  Dixie Dugan : What's this old stuff? You're still young.

  Donna Harris : I'm 32 and in this business when you're over 32 you're older than those hills out there.

  Dixie Dugan : Hollywood can't really be like that.

• Dixie Dugan : I give up. I guess I'll get a job at a factory where they make little straw hats for horses.

• Dixie Dugan : Why didn't you wire me? I've had such a toothache in my heart.

• Dixie Dugan : How was I?

  Kramer - the Director : All right.

  Dixie Dugan : All right? I thought it was swell.

  Kramer - the Director : Now, save your energy for the hysterics.

• Dixie Dugan : What's wrong with you, Shakespeare?

• Jimmie Doyle : I do know your work better than anybody else and you're not giving us your old sparkle.

  Dixie Dugan : Sparkle, your grandma! What do you think this is? The Fourth of July?

• Dixie Dugan : I gotta finish dressing. I'm going to a party and grab some laughs.