Three Little Words (1950)

Vera-Ellen: Jessie Brown Kalmar

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• Bert Kalmar : Hey, wait a minute. You're not walking out on me, are you?

  Jessie Brown : Not yet.

  Bert Kalmar : What'd you open the door for?

  Jessie Brown : Because I'm a nice girl, Mr. Kalmar. And a nice girl always leaves the door open.

• Jessie Brown : You want to be everything in show business all at once and I just want to be a wife.

• Jessie Brown Kalmar : [singing]  So when I fall asleep at night, It seems you just tip-toe into all my dreams, So I think of no other one, Ever since I've begun thinking of you.

• Bert Kalmar : I've got a great idea. An opening for the new act. I come out in one, see, I'm a magician.

  Jessie Brown : Oh, a magician.

  Bert Kalmar : Yeah! I'm in full dressed suit, medals on my chest, maybe a mustache and a little goatee.

  Jessie Brown : [sarcastically]  Yes, I adore little goatees.

• Jessie Brown : I'm not a girl who needs a new sable every winter.

• Jessie Brown : [singing]  I'm sweet Marie from gay Paris, This is my new car, It fill my heart with joy, To drive a Yankee boy...

• Jessie Brown : [singing]  But, if you pooh-pooh me, I pooh-pooh you...

• Jessie Brown : [singing]  When you're in zee car, Don't go too far, Ooh la la, Ooh la la, Come on, papa

• Harry Ruby : What do you think of her?

  Jessie Brown Kalmar : Well, she's - very peppy, isn't she.

  Harry Ruby : Yeah, she's got a lot of life.

• Jessie Brown Kalmar : I still think Harry's in love.

  Bert Kalmar : Don't be silly. Just because a fella writes a romantic tune that doesn't mean he has to be Beethoven.