Cover Girl (1944)

Eve Arden: Cornelia Jackson

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• John Coudair : All right, I'm trying not to be excited. What would you do if your youth should walk in through that door?

  Cornelia Jackson : I'd put braces on its teeth.

• Cornelia Jackson : That one isn't a girl, John. She's a leaping thyroid!

• Cornelia Jackson : This mania you have for peering at these creatures in their native haunts is the - well, I should know after all these years, I can't change you. Is this one worth going to Brooklyn to see?

  John Coudair : Where on earth is that?

  Cornelia Jackson : I think you take a bridge to get there.

• Cornelia Jackson : [after being repeatedly interrupted and bumped into by cast members and kitchen staff backstage at Danny McGuire's nightclub]  Wouldn't it be simpler if we just laid down and let them walk all over us?

• Cornelia Jackson : She looks relaxed. If only you gals could realize how important that is - to be quiet and relaxed.

• Cornelia Jackson : [after close examination]  Nice teeth. Well, keep your nightlife down and your hopes up. You may hear from us.

• Cornelia Jackson : What is a new face, anyway? I keep hearing about them all the time; but, I've never seen one.

• Cornelia Jackson : We don't think you know what you want.

  John Coudair : I know exactly what I want. I want a girl with a story in her eyes.

  Cornelia Jackson : Drawing room or smoking room?

• John Coudair : Have that girl come and see me tomorrow, Stonewall.

  Cornelia Jackson : Well, I'm glad you liked her. I thought she was quite unusual looking, for a blonde.

  John Coudair : No, no. I mean the one with red hair.

  Cornelia Jackson : Oh, the red hair. The red hair!

• Cornelia Jackson : Wouldn't it be simple if we just laid down and let them walk over us?

• Noel Wheaton : I guess my trumpet was kinda outta tune?

  Cornelia Jackson : I thought I heard a sour note.

• Noel Wheaton : I've tried everything this side of kidnapping. I...

  Cornelia Jackson : What is this side of kidnapping?

  Noel Wheaton : Please don't be humorous.

  Cornelia Jackson : You're humorous! Both of you. You're trying to do something you'll never do. Lure a girl away from a guy she loves - with things. Well, it won't work - and I'm just dame enough to be glad of it. What do you think of that?