Bombshell (1933)

Frank Morgan: Pops Burns

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Quotes 

• Lola Burns : Get away from me, all of you! You're nothing but a pack of leeches!

  Pops : Leeches?

  Lola Burns : Yes, leeches! At least he

  [motions to Space] 

  Lola Burns : was right; I don't know how I expected to bring a baby in here with an old fool for his grandfather who's half-drunk all the time!...

  Pops : After the way I've worked to handle your affairs...

  Lola Burns : Well, what about my affairs! Where are they? Why aren't my bills paid? Where does my money go? I never see any of it!

  Mac : Lola, you're exciting yourself...

  Lola Burns : Well, what are you doing about you? Don't think I don't know about your stealing and all the cuts you get from the stores! And you

  Elsie, Hanlon's Secretary : Aw, listen, Sis...

  Lola Burns : And you who never, haven't had a job to your name for three years and bringing her in here like it was a hotel for traveling salesmen! I've only stood it because it's the only home and family I've got. But I'm getting sick of it, you understand? There's only Loretta and the dogs that ever do a single thing for me. All the rest of you are just out for what you can get and I'm getting pretty tired of being a golden goose or whatever you call it!

  Space Hanlon : Atta girl, Sugar!

  Lola Burns : Don't "atta girl" me! I never want to see you again as long as I breath. You're worse than all the rest of 'em!

  [starts quoting Space] 

  Lola Burns : "Stone-Age Stuff!" "Mad with Desire!" "Lovers' Brawl!" Is that the way you prove you just more than care for me? Treating me like a strip act in a burlesque show! A glamorous Bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been! Well, I'm through do you understand? With the business, with everybody! You can get another "It Girl," a "But Girl" or a "How, When and Where Girl." I'm clearing out - and you can all stay here in this half-paid-for car barn and get somebody else to pull the apple cart! I'm going where ladies and gentlemen hang their hats and get some peace and quiet... and if any of you try to interfere with me - I'll complain to the authorities!

• Lola Burns : All right, Mac, have 'em bring around my roadster.

  Mac : Your brother took the roadster to Tijuana.

  Lola Burns : Tijuana? Say, who told him that...

  Pops : I sent Junior down there to look over a crop of fillies with the idea of a possible purchase...

  Lola Burns : I know the kinda fillies he'll look over!

• Lola Burns : You've been out all night and you're still boiled!

  Pops : I've been in conference with some racing men. We've been discussing methods of breeding.

  Lola Burns : Don't talk to me about your methods of breeding. I don't want to hear another word.

• Lola Burns : Four hundred dollars.

  Pops : Yes, I want to wire it right away.

  Lola Burns : Who for?

  Pops : Well, Junior didn't explain; he just telephoned...

  Lola Burns : Oh, I get it! Tijuana again. They've been giving him a sleigh ride on the roulette wheel.

  Pops : Now, Lola, you mustn't be too hard on your brother...

  Lola Burns : Not another nickel! He's been supporting every gambling joint on that border with his millionaire complex and my money!

  Pops : Yeh, but they're liable to hold him...

  Lola Burns : Well, let them hold him. Let them put him to work on a rockpile. I don't care. I'm through. He's a liar and a no-good and a - oh, what the heck. Ma liked him.

  [signs the check] 

• Pops : Daughter! Daughter. What a nightmare! Leaving us this way with bitterness in your heart - and no money.

• Pops : This is disgraceful, Gillette! Why, Hugo comes from a noble family. And as for Lola, well, on my side, she's descended from everything back of Edward the Ninth.

  Mr. H. Gillette : You mean the Eighth, don't you? There was no Ninth.

  Pops : Yes, of course. A slip of the tongue in my excitement.

• Pops : How 'bout a little libation?

  Mr. Middleton : No, I thank you.

  Pops : I don't suppose, Madame M would?

  Mrs. Middleton : No!