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Film Quotes by Glenda Farrell

23 quotes
Havana Widows
Year: 1933

Director:
Ray Enright
Showgirl Rejected by Gladys: If you're waiting for Gladys to stake you to a trip to Havana, save your breath. She wouldn't give you a nickel to go out and see the Statue of Liberty do a nip-up.
Mae Knight: Well, I guess we better go home. I feel like a horse's neck.
Sadie Appleby: Yeah-I feel like the rest of the animal.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Winton: [to Florence] Will you marry me?
Florence: How much money have you got?
Winton: [laughing] Heaven knows , alot.
Florence: [smiling] Well that being the case , I'll take it up with the board of directors.
-- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Winton: I've only known you twenty-four hours, but I'm in love with you.
Florence: Doesn't usually take that long.
-- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Susan Slept Here
Year: 1954

Director:
Frank Tashlin
Susan Beaurgard Landis: Leave me alone! Let me go!
Maude Snodgrass: *After* I've talked to you like a mother.
Virgil, Mark's Gofer: What do *you* know about motherhood?
Maude Snodgrass: I happened to have typed the script to 'Stella Dallas.'
-- Glenda Farrell (as Maude Snodgrass) in Susan Slept Here (1954)
Girl Missing
Year: 1933

Director:
Robert Florey
June Dale: What now?
Kay Curtis: There's an old saying - when one fish gets away, bait your hook for another one.
June Dale: I don't quite get you.
Kay Curtis: You're the bait. Before the sun sinks in the good old west, we'll bait another one.
The Keyhole
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Dot: Gimme a straight whiskey.
Ship Bartender: Did ya lose 'im?
Dot: Lose him? Me? Boy, the only way they get away from me is to jump overboard.
Ship Bartender: I thought you always went first class. What're you doing with that slug?
Dot: Ah, the Depression hit me. C'mon, give.
Ship Bartender: Nix. Wait'll we dock.
Dot: Give! Twenty Champagne cocktails at two bucks a smash, and about thirty bucks in tips. And don't be holdin' out on me, or I'll switch 'im back to whiskey at half a buck a snort.
Apache War Smoke
Year: 1952

Director:
Harold F. Kress
Fanny Webson: So if you ever get to San Francisco, look us up.
Tom Herrera: I might.
Fanny Webson: We'll have at least a dozen ways for a man to lose his money and enjoy the fact that he lost it.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Florence: [after Charlotte hangs up the phone after talking to Ralph] Who was that? Penny Ante?
Charlotte Duncan: Mmmm hmmm why?.
Florence: Just wondering , did you invite him to lunch or did he invite you?
Charlotte Duncan: Well I don't want to offend you but frankly that's none of your business , I don't interfere in any of your affairs.
Florence: I don't have any affairs.
[sits up and shouts]
Florence: What do you mean?
Charlotte Duncan: I don't think you could have a real affair, I don't think you could care for anyone.
Florence: Oh please, I've been in love so many times my heart's calloused, but I never hit one with dough.
-- Glenda Farrell (as Florence Dempsey) in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Florence: [describing the disfigured man's appearance] And that face , it was like an African war mask.
Detective: You mean he was colored?
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)
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Year: 1933

Director:
Michael Curtiz
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)