Pal Joey (1957)

Rita Hayworth: Mrs. Vera Prentice-Simpson

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• Vera Simpson : It may come as quite a surprise, Miss English, but, I do believe there's been nothing between you and Joey. That makes you all the more dangerous. You may not know it, but, when Joey told you to keep your clothes on today, he played the greatest love scene of his career. I could undress in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel and he'd never turn a hair.

• Vera Simpson : Let's say we understand each other. We're alike, Joey and I - the same breed of cat.

• Vera Simpson : [singing]  You're looking at a former stripper, But before I unzip one zipper, I want it known I was quite the artiste, But, the intellectual kind, What was I thinking while I worked through my dance? While I worked these thoughts kept crossing - my mind, Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today, Zip! Will the Giants ever take it away? Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night, Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right...

• Joey Evans : I told you something once. I'm gonna tell it to you again. Nobody owns Joey, but Joey.

  Vera Simpson : I'll show you who owns Joey.

• Vera Simpson : Who is that?

  Joey Evans : One of the mice in the line.

• Joey Evans : If you ever get tired of being a wealthy widow, you might like to go back into show business.

  Vera Simpson : No, thank you. I like being Mrs. Prentice-Simpson.

  Joey Evans : Well, I'm not knocking you being Mrs. Prentice-Simpson. But, I just thought you and me as a team, we'd make a dandy double.

  Vera Simpson : Aren't you afraid you might find me a bit rusty?

  Joey Evans : Don't be ridiculous. Why don't you get out of something uncomfortable and I'll give you a small audition.

  Vera Simpson : Oh, Beauty, you have all the subtlety of a battering ram.

• Vera Simpson : [singing]  I'm wild again, Beguiled again, A simpering, whimpering child again, Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I...

• Joey Evans : What is this?

  Vera Simpson : [gets up to leave]  Oh, we were just slumming, Beauty, and we have a lot of spots to make. What's next boys? That place where the young lady dances with the snakes?

• Vera Simpson : When did she spring from the chorus?

  Joey Evans : Who?

  Vera Simpson : The mouse in the spotlight. Oh, I'm beginning to talk like you.

  Joey Evans : Oh, you mean Linda? Well, she's Ned's girl and he's kinda stuck on her and, you know, we talked it over and we think she was ready.

  Vera Simpson : Ready for what?

• Vera Simpson : I'll make it simple for you: she's out.

  Joey Evans : You mean you want me to fire her?

  Vera Simpson : Yes, partner. You see, I figure its the only way to protect my investment. I don't mean the club, I mean you!

• Vera Simpson : Don't let it bother you. I'm sure she'll have no trouble finding another job.

  Joey Evans : Sure, she can always pitch for the New York Giants.

• Joey Evans : You mean you'd chuck the whole thing - over one stagestruck little broad?

  Vera Simpson : It isn't just one stagestruck little broad.

• Vera Simpson : Why didn't you bring him

  ["Snuffy" the dog] 

  Vera Simpson : with you?

  Joey Evans : Because he wasn't yet yacht broken.

• Linda English : Joey's better than you think. He's better than he thinks.

  Vera Simpson : Nobody's better than he thinks.

• Joey Evans : The only thing about you that appeals to me is your M-U-N-Y, money. Do I make myself clear?

  Vera Simpson : Crystal clear.