Quotes from Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

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Frank McHugh
Florence: [talking about a case] Can I handle this my way?
Jim: You cannot, I'm still editor of this newspaper.
Florence: Fine you said I was fired... well I quit, you give the assignment to somebody else.
Jim: Wait a minute, come here.
Florence: [crying] No, I'm through.
Jim: Come here sob sister, alright go ahead do it your own way.

Glenda Farrell
Florence: [to her boss] I'm gonna make you eat dirt you soap bubble , I'm gonna make you beg for somebody to help you let go. You may mean the world to your mother but you're a...
[walks away without finishing her sentence]
Florence: .
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell
Florence: As I live and breathe and wear spats the prince.
Jim: You been doing experiments with scotch and soda again?
Florence: Where'd you get that news item, from a little bird?
Jim: Yeah, have a pleasant vacation?
Florence: Charming, more delightful people crippled.
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell
Florence: I don't know WHAT he was, but he made Frankenstein look like a lily!
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell
Florence: Listen, Joan Gale's body was swiped from the morgue, have you ever heard of such a thing as a death mask?
Jim: I used to be married to one.
Florence: Then it came to life and divorced you, I know all about that.
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell
Florence: OK, brother, then you can go to some nice warm place, and I don't mean California.
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Frank McHugh
Jim: [after Florence blows a raspberry in the phone] A cow does that and gives milk besides.

Glenda Farrell
Charlotte Duncan: I can just see it now you telling the landlady you didn't have the rent but ralph was awfully sweet.
Charlotte Duncan: It just so happens that the poor people are happier.
Florence: Then marry Ralph you'll be the happiest couple in the world.
Charlotte Duncan: I don't know what your going on about, I don't see any millionaires running after you.
Florence: Met one last night, all the money this side of peoria.
Charlotte Duncan: Who?
Florence: George Winton of the Park Avenue Wintons.
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Glenda Farrell
Charlotte Duncan: Ready, Florence?
Florence: Well, you two will have to struggle along without me, I've got a heavy date. No fouling in the clinches...
- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Lionel Atwill
Charlotte Duncan: You fiend.
Ivan Igor: My Marie Antoinette you must not say that to me.
Charlotte Duncan: You fiend.
Ivan Igor: My dear, why are you so pitifully afraid?

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