Lady for a Day (1933)

Glenda Farrell: Missouri Martin

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Quotes 

• Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : If we gotta dig up a husband for Annie, let's to it and get it over with.

  Happy McGuire : Yeah, now you gotta dig up a husband for her.

  Happy McGuire : [shouting]  Where you gonna get a husband just like that?

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : What about YOU, Happy?

  Happy McGuire : Me?

  Missouri Martin : Oh, that's a swell idea. I think you'd be just precious.

  Happy McGuire : That's a wonderful idea; there's one thing stands in the way: I've got a wife that's very fussy. She don't like for me to go around marryin' people! I know how unreasonable that must sound to you, but she's very funny that way.

• Missouri Martin : Happy, in case you break anything, be sure it's your neck.

• Missouri Martin : [bringing in her entourage to work on Apple Annie]  Say, when they get through with her, she's gonna look every bit as good as me.

  Happy McGuire : The idea is to make her look like a lady.

• Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : I got it, I got just the one! Judge Henry G. Blake!

  Missouri Martin : Who's he?

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : For a proposition like this we got to have a guy who talks classy don't we? Well Judge Blake is the classiest talker in town!

• Missouri Martin : [singing]  Oh, honest, I'm not jokin', Since my passion began, I'm so hot I'm smokin', I want a man!

• Missouri Martin : All right, come on you flesh pounders, this is going to be a sweet job.

• Happy : Don't make me laugh.

  Missouri Martin : If I could make you laugh, I'd go out and get drunk.

  Happy : You couldn't make a hyena laugh!