Blonde Venus (1932)

Robert Emmett O'Connor: Dan O'Connor

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• Dan O'Connor : So, this is the pip you phoned about. Where did you pick her up?

  Ben Smith : I ran across her a long time ago. I've been saving her for a spot like this.

  Dan O'Connor : Can she croon? What I need's a crooner.

  Ben Smith : She can croon in a pinch. Who can't?

  Dan O'Connor : I got one good-looker eating her head off on me already. I don't know if I can use another.

  Ben Smith : All right, then. All right. I got three or four spots I can place this dame without half trying. Come on, baby.

• Dan O'Connor : What'd you say your name was?

  Ben Smith : Jones.

  Dan O'Connor : Well, we'll change that.

• Nick Townsend : Why don't you cool down and run along? We don't want any trouble.

  Big Fellow : Yellow, huh?

  Nick Townsend : Yes, maybe I am. As a matter of fact, I'm scared stiff. And being reasonably certain that someone's gonna get a punch in the jaw, I'm going to make sure it isn't me.

  [punches him] 

  Minor Role : Are you goin' back for more, or will we go home, ya big stiff? Come on Mary.

  Big Fellow : [as he's being picked up off the floor]  Who hit me?

  Dan O'Connor : Sorry this happened, Mr. Townsend.

  Nick Townsend : Oh, that's all right, O'Connor, I rather enjoyed it.

• Nick Townsend : Say, O'Connor, I meant to call you up yesterday but I didn't get around to it. Miss Jones isn't going to work for you anymore.

  Dan O'Connor : What's the idea? She can't quit me like this.

  Ben Smith : Who's that?

  Nick Townsend : Nick Townsend. After me giving her all this publicity and workin' up a swell following for her?

  Nick Townsend : Do you happen to have a contract with Miss Jones?

  Dan O'Connor : Have you got that dame under contract?

  Ben Smith : Have I got a million dollars?

• Ben Smith : I'm no magician. I can't pick her out of the air. I've done my best to find her.

  Dan O'Connor : Did you try her home?

  Ben Smith : Sure, I tried her home, and I found out plenty. She's married.

  Dan O'Connor : Married?

  Ben Smith : And what's more, she's got a kid.

  Dan O'Connor : A kid?

  Ben Smith : And her husband's gone to Europe for his health.

  Dan O'Connor : For his health.

  Ben Smith : He sailed three weeks ago. She ain't been home all day and neither has the kid and nobody knows when she'll be back.

  Dan O'Connor : Maybe something's happened to them.

  Ben Smith : And me pickin' a winner for the first time this year. Blooey goes my fifteen percent. Why the next one I get, I'll nail down if I have to marry her.

• Dan O'Connor : Why were you late again? Run out of gas?

  Taxi Belle Hooper : Don't crab, I couldn't help it.

• Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones : [singing]  Hot voodoo, I'm aflame, I'm really not to blame, That African tempo is meaner than mean, Hot voodoo makes me brave, I want to misbehave, I'm beginning to feel like an African queen, Those drums bring out, The devil inside me, I need some great big angel to guide me, Hot voodoo gets me wild, Oh, fireman, save this child, I'm going to blazes, I want to be bad!

  Nick Townsend : [clapping and talking]  Not bad, eh, Henry?

  Henry : I should say not.

  Nick Townsend : Where'd you dig her up, O'Connor?

  Dan O'Connor : How do you like her, boys?

  Nick Townsend : Pretty good.

• Charlie Blaine : How about ordering something to drink? What'll you have, Miss Jones?

  Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones : I don't drink.

  Henry : Smoke?

  Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones : No, thank you.

  Charlie Blaine : You won't last very long in this place.

  Dan O'Connor : Why won't she?

  Charlie Blaine : She's got too much class for this joint.

• Edward 'Ned' Faraday : Do you know where she is?

  Taxi Belle Hooper : No, I don't know. But you ask a guy named Nick Townsend maybe he...

  Dan O'Connor : Shut up, if you know what's good for ya. Don't mind her. She's cracked! I wish I could help you locate your dame, brother; but I don't know a thing. In this business, they come and they go.