Baby, Take a Bow (1934)
Ray Walker: Larry Scott
Quotes
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Welch : You're a nice girl and you're about to make the biggest mistake of your life.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : That's my business.
Larry Scott : Sure it is, and don't let him tell you any different!
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Eddie Ellison : Well, if it isn't my old pal Welch, big as life and twice as natural.
Larry Scott : He's still got it in for you! He's been giving the one-two the whole way up here, trying to promote himself.
Welch : I was just trying to give Kay here a little friendly advice. I know a lot more about crooks than she does.
Larry Scott : Why, you!
[he tries to punch Welch, but Larry stops him]
Larry Scott : If you slug him, you'll get in trouble. You're on your way out. Keep going. I'm on my way in. I got nothing to lose.
[he punches Welch]
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Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Did you tell her about her present?
Eddie Ellison : Who, me? Gee, won't she look cute in that?
Jane Scott : Oh, it's darling.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : It cost an awful lot.
Eddie Ellison : It's for Shirley, isn't it? She only has a birthday once a year.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Every day is her birthday with you.
Eddie Ellison : Well, why shouldn't it be? Say, here's another littl gadget I bought for Shirley.
Larry Scott : What is it?
Eddie Ellison : Take a look.
[He hands Larry a small telescope. When Larry looks into it, it leaves a black ring around his eye]
Larry Scott : I don't see anything.
Eddie Ellison : No, but we do!
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Oh, Eddie, you and your tricks. You're not going to give that to the baby. You're making her as bad as you are.
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Larry Scott : Top of the morning to you.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : And the heat of the evening to you.
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Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Sit down and have some coffee.
Larry Scott : Aren't you going to wait for Eddie?
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : I should wait and eat a cold breakfast? Not for any husband. Sometimes I get so mad I could give him poison.
Eddie Ellison : And sometimes I get so mad I could take it. What do you know about that?
Larry Scott : To hear you two in the morning, you'd think you were ready to jump at each other's throats.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : In the morning? What about the rest of the day?
Larry Scott : Well, I just hope Jane and me get along as well as you two.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Eddie, Larry and Jane got engaged last night!
Eddie Ellison : Well, I don't see why a fine girl like Jane would want to marry a mug like you.
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Larry Scott : Sometimes I wonder if going straight really pays.
Eddie Ellison : Hey, cut out that kind of talk, will you?
Larry Scott : But what will Jane think?
Eddie Ellison : She's a hundred percent for you. She wouldn't think anything bad about you any more than Kay would me. We won't tell them anything tonight, though.
Larry Scott : Why not?
Eddie Ellison : I don't want anything to spoil Shirley's birthday party!
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Eddie Ellison : Well, if it isn't my old pal, Welch. As big as life and twice as natural.
Larry Scott : He's no pal of yours, fella. He's still got it in for you.
Eddie Ellison : What do you mean?
Larry Scott : He's been throwing hooks into you all the way up on the train. Trying to promote himself.
Welch : Yeah. I was just trying to give her a little friendly advice, that's all. I happen to know a lot more about crooks than she does.
Eddie Ellison : Why, you -
[moves as if to hit Welch]
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : [restraining him] Eddie, Eddie!
Larry Scott : If you sock him, you'll get into trouble. You're on the way out. Keep going. I'm on the way in, so I've got nothing to lose.
[punches Welch in the nose]
Eddie Ellison : Thanks, fella. I'll be seeing you when you get out.
Larry Scott : Good luck. I wish I could be your best man.
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Larry Scott : Say, how 'bout going to the movies with us tonight?
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Oh, thanks, but we can't leave Shirley.
Larry Scott : They're showing 10,000 years in Sing-Sing at the Cameo.
Eddie Ellison : Gee, what a long stretch!
Jane Scott : They say it's awful funny.
Eddie Ellison : Not for my dough.
Larry Scott : Well, come on, Jane. We'll be late.
Eddie Ellison : Say, Larry, what's your hurry? If you miss three or four years, it don't make any difference.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Have a good time.
Larry Scott : Thanks. Sorry you won't come with us. So long.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison , Eddie Ellison , Jane Scott : Good-bye.
Eddie Ellison : Oh. Hey, Larry.
Larry Scott : Yeah?
Eddie Ellison : We've got to be on the job early in the morning. Stop by for me, and we'll dunk a couple of doughnuts.
Larry Scott : Right.
Eddie Ellison : And say, let me know what the guy did to get 10,000 years.
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Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : What's happened?
Eddie Ellison : Well, the breadwinners have stopped winning.
Larry Scott : Yeah, looks like we're in for a little vacation.
Jane Scott : You mean you were discharged.
Eddie Ellison : Well, not exactly. We were canned.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : But they can't let you off for nothing.
Eddie Ellison : No. I know they can't. But they did. Welch saw to that.
Jane Scott : Who's Welch?
Larry Scott : Well, he's an old friend of ours.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Will you excuse us for a minute? I want to talk to Eddie alone.
[Eddie and Kay go into the next room]
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Now listen, Eddie. When we were married we said we'd go 50-50 on everything, didn't we?
Eddie Ellison : Uh-huh.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Well, that meant joy and trouble, too. You always let me in on the joy, now. Why not the trouble?
Eddie Ellison : There's nothing more to tell.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Eddie, look at me. Did Larry have anything to do with this?
Eddie Ellison : No.
Kay 'Funny Face' Ellison : Well, then. We haven't a thing to worry about.
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Welch : [Welch is searching Eddie's apartment for a stolen pearl necklace] What kind of a sap do you think I am?
Eddie Ellison : I don't know. What kind of a sap are you?
Welch : Now, let's see. If I was in your spot, I wonder where I'd hide that necklace.
Eddie Ellison : Let me see. Maybe you'd swallow it.
Larry Scott : I read in Popular Mechanics where Zulus hide jewels by sewing them under their skin.
Eddie Ellison : That'd be all right if we were Zulus.
