The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
Frank Morgan: Merle Farrell
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Quotes
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Merle Farrell : Wouldn't you like a... a... whatever it is?
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Merle Farrell : Girls, take your original positions. I want to create a different mood. Must I do everything myself?
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Merle Farrell : Why doesn't somebody do something? Why doesn't the piano play the way I want it to play. When I want a yellow mood, why can't I have a yellow mood?
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Merle Farrell : What right have you got connecting this Princess with my Follies? I could have you arrested!
James 'Jimmy' Bates : This is the day of high pressure, Merle, blood pressure, sales pressure, you got to give 'em the works. I got the contracts right here, all made out. I figure it on a percentage basis. No play, no pay.
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James 'Jimmy' Bates : Princess Exotica, Merle Farrell. Merle Farrell, Princess Exotica.
Merle Farrell : How do you do? I hope you had pleasant passage.
James 'Jimmy' Bates : Well, it was rather rough in spots. We're still trying to get the rubber out of sea legs.
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James 'Jimmy' Bates : This is the old carney song about the carpenter.
Merle Farrell : Carpenter? What carpenter?
James 'Jimmy' Bates : You know, the one with the girl who's got things wrong with her - her piano legs busted and her doorbell doesn't ring.
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Merle Farrell : What's Turkish about that noise?
James 'Jimmy' Bates : She ain't a Turk.
Merle Farrell : She - what?
James 'Jimmy' Bates : Well, that was just the old ballyhoo!
Merle Farrell : You mean, she's not a Princess?
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Teresita : Hello, Bugsy.
Merle Farrell : Oh, don't you Bugsy me!
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James 'Jimmy' Bates : Hello, Merle.
Merle Farrell : Yes, don't you Merle me!
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Gladys, aka Ella Beebee and Eve : Merley got his divorce today and we're going to be married.
James 'Jimmy' Bates : You don't mean to tell - oh, Merley, you're so impulsive.
Merle Farrell : Well, we kinda felt as though you brought us together, I was wondering if there wasn't something I could do for you?
James 'Jimmy' Bates : Yes! There is! But, I wouldn't ask you to do a thing like that.
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Merle Farrell : I'm working so hard, I don't know what I'm doing.