Sing and Like It (1934)

Edward Everett Horton: Adam Frink - Producer

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• Adam Frink - Producer : "Partners"... you and I? Are you mad?

  T. Fenny Sylvester : No... I ain't sore.

  Adam Frink - Producer : Well, would it be presumptuous on my part to inquire just what the devil it is you're talking about?

  T. Fenny Sylvester : Well, that's all right. You puttin' on a show, ain't ya'?

  Adam Frink - Producer : Yes.

  T. Fenny Sylvester : Okay, well, I'm puttin' up half the dough and helpin' ya' produce it. In other words, me and you is partners in the theater racket.

  Adam Frink - Producer : My dear Mr. Sylvester, your insolent, boorish, *vulgar* suggestion that you affiliate with me, Adam Frink, the artistic genius of the theater, why it's, uh, it's ineffably preposterous. And with this, allow me to terminate the interview.

  [waves dismissively] 

  T. Fenny Sylvester : [turning to Toots]  Put that in one word for me.

  Toots McGuire : The gentleman says "nerts".

• T. Fenny Sylvester : [as Annie is awkwardly rehearsing her song on stage]  Did you ever hear such a voice?

  Adam Frink - Producer : Not emanating from a human throat, no.

  T. Fenny Sylvester : That song's gonna' have all Broadway on its feet.

  Adam Frink - Producer : Running for the nearest exit.

• T. Fenny Sylvester : Boy, don't that song get ya'? And whaddya' think of that verse?

  Adam Frink - Producer : I think it's the most excruciatingly strident thing I have ever heard.

  T. Fenny Sylvester : Yeah, it *is* beautiful, ain't it? Sure picked a leadin' lady for ya', didn't I?

  Adam Frink - Producer : For me? You did not! Do you suppose for one minute that I would perpetrate that, that, that... creature upon an audience? She's impossible. I won't do it!

  T. Fenny Sylvester : Listen, dearie. There ain't no such word as "won't" when you're talkin' to me. I say she's your leadin' lady, or else.

• Adam Frink - Producer : [to Fenny, in regards to Annie's acting abilities]  Take my advice, old man. If you want to put her in the show business, have her tattooed all over - - and sign her up with the circus.

  Toots McGuire : [Fenny turns and looks inquiringly at Toots]  The gentleman says, the lady's a Gorgonzola.