Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

Charlotte Greenwood: Polly Hathaway

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• Polly Hathaway : [Repeated lines]  Darling, I love you madly. I cannot live without you. You must never leave me.

• Polly Hathaway : You have all the passion of an infuriated clam.

• Polly Hathaway : I'm not here to give you dancing lessons.

• Detective : Who are you?

  Polly Hathaway : I'm the body.

• Polly Hathaway : You're just as safe with me as you would be in jail.

• Polly Hathaway : You're dead and you won't lay down.

• Jeffrey Haywood : I want to get married next week and you're the one that's going to do it for me.

  Polly Hathaway : Do it for you? Great scott, when a man gets married that's one thing he must do for himself.

• Jeffrey Haywood : I only want you to have supper with him. Will you?

  Polly Hathaway : Well, will he give me a good supper?

  Jeffrey Haywood : Oh, sure! In my room. Its at the Seaside Hotel.

• Jeffrey Haywood : If we can only get Angelica to find her Reggie with another woman...

  Polly Hathaway : Oh, I see!

  Jeffrey Haywood : Looks don't mean anything. Anyone will do.

  Polly Hathaway : Oh, so you picked me! Thanks!

  Jeffrey Haywood : Oh, no, you're such a great scout.

  Polly Hathaway : Yes, I'm Buffalo Bill.

  Jeffrey Haywood : Now, listen, you will register as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.

  Polly Hathaway : Mr. and Mrs. John Smith? Now, I'm Pocahontas.

• Jeffrey Haywood : I better find someone who can put a little pep into a man. Someone with enough "it" to teach a man how to act with a woman.

  Polly Hathaway : Oh, yeah? What is the address of this Seaside Hotel?

• Polly Hathaway : Here it is, now, Seaside Hotel, seven o'clock, approach Reggie and supper. Gee, I love supper. I hope they have meat.

• Polly Hathaway : What you're supposed to do now is to make love to me!

  Reginald Irving : Where do I begin?

• Polly Hathaway : First, you seize me. One arm around my neck. Comme ci comme ça. Well, come and get this. Are you anchored?

• Polly Hathaway : I'm not supposed to be your maiden aunt. I'm supposed to be the party of the second part in a regular orgy. In a regular orgy! In a kiss! Let me show you a kiss!

• Polly Hathaway : Mama don't wanna play.

• Polly Hathaway : Come on now, hurry. I'm tired of this whole thing. I came here for a quiet little supper and what do I get? A shot in the pajamas!

• Jeffrey Haywood : Listen, Polly, we've always been good friends, haven't we?

  Polly Hathaway : Yes. But you're scaring the friendship out of me.