Forsaking All Others (1934)
Charles Butterworth: Shep
Quotes
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Eleanor : I wish a man would marry me so I could wear a decent hat.
Shemp 'Shempy' : That's the best reason for getting married I ever heard.
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Eleanor : Oh, I want to go to the bachelor dinner.
Shemp 'Shempy' : Can you do a fan dance?
Eleanor : I invented the fan dance.
Shemp 'Shempy' : I saw one with electric fans once, it was awful
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Eleanor : I wish I were a man.
Shemp 'Shempy' : Were, or had?
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Shemp 'Shempy' : [as he helps Paula pick up the Dining table and carry it] Where are we going?
Aunt Paula : To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.
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Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Shemp 'Shempy' : You ever look at a milkman?
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Shemp 'Shempy' : Tell me Jeff, how was Spain? Full of Spaniards?
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Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Come on, let's get out of here. I've got to go drink myself into proper condition to give the bride away.
Shemp 'Shempy' : I got just the drink. You take a jigger of brandy, a pony of rye, three fingers of vodka, a dash of radium and stand well back.
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Hotel Manager : Well, if you're awake, why don't you open your eyes?
Jeffrey 'Jeff' : I can't. I' afraid they'll drop out.
Shemp 'Shempy' : We went to a bachelor dinner last night. He ate too much ice cream
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Shemp 'Shempy' : We better find him somehow. After all, the wedding starts in a couple of hours and we've got to find somebody to marry Mary. Marry Mary? Marry Mary! That's right!
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Shemp 'Shempy' : [Disapprovingly] What is that smell? Fresh air?
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Shemp 'Shempy' : If you ask me, you're not going to Spain. You're going to a lunatic asylum.
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Aunt Paula : And this is the living room, if you can call it living.
Shemp 'Shempy' : Cheery, isn't it dear?
Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, yes,. Truly, truly.
Shemp 'Shempy' : Tell me, madam, how far are you from the nearest school?
Aunt Paula : 30 miles by horse and dog sled.
Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, that's good enough for junior.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, too good. Ah, darling, how many bedrooms do we need?
Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, one for you and the nurse, and one for my mother.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yeessss.
Shemp 'Shempy' : [to Aunt Paula] My mother's been living with us since we were married.
Mary Clay : [Who had been listening to all of this, from the doorway] Oh, ho, you fools.
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Shemp 'Shempy' : What is that smell, fresh air?
Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yeah, and don't breathe too much of it - it's liable to collapse your lungs.
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Shemp 'Shempy' : I have a nice home where I can press a button and get anything I want, and I could've stayed there. But, no, I drive 13 hours in the hot sun so I can peel potatoes.