Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

Wallace Ford: Jed Marlowe

Quotes 

• Molly Mahoney : I guess you've been doin' all right for yourself since you got out of show business with that column and all those newspapers and everything.

  Jed Marlowe : Aw, I've got those chumps fooled. I'm still a hoofer at heart.

  Molly Mahoney : So am I. I used to dream I'd have this town at my feet. Now I'd settle for a good chiropodist.

• Jed Marlowe : Tell me, aren't you Miss These, Them and Those, yet?

  Molly Mahoney : You mean, Eddie? No, not yet, but we're engaged and that's as good as bein' married.

  Jed Marlowe : As good? It's a darn sight better.

• Jed Marlowe : Molly, you're in a swell spot here to keep your eyes and ears open to see what's going on. And that's what I breed on. How'd you like to make yourself a little extra dough?

  Molly Mahoney : Sure. I think so.

  Jed Marlowe : Swell. Now, here's your first job. Find out who that sweet little dish is that has Chat Chatsworth hanging on the ropes. You know her?

  Molly Mahoney : [Sees it's Pat]  No, Jed. That's a new one on me.

• Molly Mahoney : Say, what is this bird Chatsworth like, anyway?

  Jed Marlowe : He's a wild cuckoo. He flits from limb to limb and every season he picks himself a new mate. After he's feathered their nest with linoleum, he flies away and picks himself another. Five, so far.

  Molly Mahoney : Five wives?

  Jed Marlowe : From penthouse to flop house in one easy lesson.

• Jed Marlowe : You got any mud for me?

  Molly Mahoney : No, not yet, Jed, I - I been kinda busy.

  Jed Marlowe : Did you get the low down on that pigeon Chatsworth's running around with?

  Molly Mahoney : No, I haven't.

  Jed Marlowe : They tell me she's a little Romanian dancer by the name of -Mahoney.

• Jed Marlowe : Molly, you can still change your mind.

  Molly Mahoney : Not me. I'm gonna be back in Nebraska in time for the corn and lima bean festival. And, who knows, maybe this year I'll be elected Queen of the Succotash!