Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

Edward Arnold: Martin X. Edley

Quotes 

• Martin X. Edley : [open's hotel room door]  Well, Angel Face, come into my parlor.

  Bunny Smith : Yes, Mr Spider.

• Martin X. Edley : [on the phone]  Hello. Let me have the public stenographer's office, please. Hello, this Martin Edley, 39E, I want a secretary. Well, send up the little blonde that was here yesterday: Bunny something or other.

• Martin X. Edley : I'm going to transfer my headquarters to New York. I'm going to get myself a swell apartment.

  Bunny Smith : You are?

  Martin X. Edley : Of course, I won't be here all the time. I just come and go, you understand. Now, Bunny, I need someone in town to take care of my private affairs. You know, entertain my friends and business acquaintances. Somebody easy to look at. Smart, like you. You know what I mean?

  Bunny Smith : Yes and no.

  Martin X. Edley : Like a confidential secretary.

• Martin X. Edley : The Bey, I mean, His Highness, is entertaining me on the Roof tonight. And, he's quite a fellow. He's got diamonds that big. And he said to me, his fellow translated, bring that very pretty little girl along - that takes dictation.

• Martin X. Edley : I'm a businessman. I made you an offer and you turned it down.

  Bunny Smith : I didn't turn it down. I just can't make it - tonight.

  Martin X. Edley : You start tonight or you don't start at all. Now, what do you say?

• Chip Collyer : Shades of peace and prosperity! If it isn't my old friend, Martin X. Edley.

  Martin X. Edley : Chip Collyer! What are you doing back in New York?

• Chip Collyer : How was life in the penitentiary?

  Martin X. Edley : You wrote a lot of lies about me. You know very well I was acquitted.

  Chip Collyer : Yeah, that's because I went off to war.

• Bey of Aribajan : You see, Mr. Edley. Mine is a sad life. Very dull. You have brightened it considerably. I am very grateful. Thank you very much, Mr. Jessup.

  [He turns and nods to Mr. Jessup as he leaves] 

  Mr. Jessup : I shall see you in Washington, your highness.

  Martin X. Edley : He speaks English.

  Mr. Jessup : So does the FBI.