Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Edna May Oliver: Sarah Wendling

Quotes 

• Barbara Shea : [on the telephone]  This is Mr. Shea's daughter. My father isn't home right n - Well, I'm awfully sorry the boys are rehearsing, but I'll be glad to...

  Sarah Wendling : [on the telephone]  I'm tired of warning you people. I won't have my nights disturbed by a lot of noisy riffraff. I won't put up with it any longer!

  Barbara Shea : I'm sorry, Miss Wendling, I'll go right up and...

  Sarah Wendling : [hangs up]  .

  Betsy Brown : What's wrong?

  Barbara Shea : She called us a lot of riffraff.

  Betsy Brown : Who?

  Barbara Shea : Our landlady.

  Betsy Brown : I didn't know we had one.

  Barbara Shea : Well, if you ever see a pumpkin in one of the windows next door and it isn't Halloween, that's our landlady.

• Roger Wendling : This young lady wants to give you money to pay the rent on the hotel.

  Sarah Wendling : Nonsense! So you've gone in for social service, have you?

  Roger Wendling : Not exactly, Aunt Sarah, I just met an acquaintance.

  Betsy Brown : There's almost five dollars in here, and I'm sure Pop will have the rest for you very soon.

  Willoughby Wendling : Bless my soul!

  Sarah Wendling : Keep your soul out of this. You will please get rid of this child.

  Roger Wendling : But Aunt Sarah...

  Sarah Wendling : If those people next door think they can play on my sympathy like this, they are greatly mistaken. I'll have my rent, all of it, or out they go.

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, I've come here to tell you to let this nephew of mine alone. You let him pay your rent for you, didn't you?

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah!

  Barbara Shea : I don't have to listen to this!

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah, that was uncalled for, unkind, and untrue!

  Betsy Brown : Uncle Roger didn't give us any money! We got it from - from someone else.

  Sarah Wendling : So it's Uncle Roger now, is it? Is Miss Shea your mother?

  Betsy Brown : Practically.

  Roger Wendling : Betsy is Mr. Shea's adopted child.

  Sarah Wendling : Adopted, eh? So they brought her into this wholesome atmosphere, nice place for a child. Why, she's using her as a decoy, and you don't you have the sense to realize it!

• Sarah Wendling : Officer, there's the child you're after.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : You let her alone!

  Detective : Now, just a minute...

  Betsy Brown : Don't you hurt Pop! Don't you dare hurt Pop!

  Detective : We're not hurting anyone, little girl. There's no need to get excited, but we've got orders to pick her up.

  Betsy Brown : No, no! I want to stay with Pop!

  Detective : Well, I don't blame you, but you come along with us, and your pop will straighten things out later.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : I'm afraid you'll have to go with them, Betsy.

  Betsy Brown : But I don't want to go back to the orphanage! I want to stay with you!

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Now, don't you cry. Soon I'll come see you, and I'll get you out again.

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, give your father a message from me that he's being disposessed.

  Barbara Shea : Oh, you can't!

  Sarah Wendling : I'm tearing the hotel down.

  Barbara Shea : But he paid his rent!

  Sarah Wendling : He's violated his lease by having all sorts of animals on the premises. He'll save himself a lot of trouble by getting right out.

  Roger Wendling : I'll have something to say about this.

  Sarah Wendling : I'm afraid you will not, as our attorney will inform you. Furthermore, Roger, if you continue your association with this woman...

  Roger Wendling : Continue it? I was just trying to get her to make it permanent!