A Star Is Born (1937)

Janet Gaynor: Esther Victoria Blodgett - aka Vicki Lester

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• [last lines] 

  Vicki Lester : Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.

• Esther Blodgett : Some day you won't laugh at me! I'm going out and have a real life! I'm gonna be somebody!

• Esther Blodgett : [Practising her line with an accent]  Acme... Naw Shmith ain't in!

• Miss Phillips - Central Casting Clerk : Still want to go in the movies? You know what your chances are? One in a hundred thousand.

  Esther Blodgett : But maybe... I'm that one.

• Pop Randall - Landlord : Mr. McGuire is a big director.

  Esther Victoria Blodgett - aka Vicki Lester : Oh, are you really? Oh, could you possibly use me in a picture, Mr. McGuire? Of course, I haven't had much experience, but I don't think that really matters if you're willing. And I really feel that...

  Danny McGuire : Listen, lady. In the first place, I'm not a director; I'm an assistant director. In the second place, if I had any jobs to give away, I'd confer one on myself. And in the third place, you should have stayed back home in the first place.

• Esther Blodgett : I'm going out there and BE somebody!