Lady for a Day (1933)

Ned Sparks: Happy

Quotes 

• Happy McGuire : That should be a cinch.

  Butler : I beg your pardon, Sir.

  Happy McGuire : I said that should be a leadpipe cinch!

  Butler : If I had choice of weapons with you, Sir, I'd choose grammar!

• Happy McGuire : I'm goin' over to the insane asylum and hobnob with a few sensible people.

• 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.

• John the Butler : Whom do you wish to see, sir?

  Happy McGuire : Is this Rodney Kent's apartment?

  John the Butler : Uh, yes, sir, but he's away...

  Happy McGuire : Ah, what gave you the idea I'd give a hang where he is?

  John the Butler : Well, I... I assumed...

  Happy McGuire : Don't go around assuming so much. It'll get you into trouble.

• Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : For years Annie's been lucky to me, ain't she?

  Happy McGuire : What?

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : Well, what kind of luck would I have if I passed her up at a time like this?

• 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.

• Happy McGuire : Say, listen, Babcock wore out the seats of two pair of pants just sitting around on his El Fideldo.

• Happy McGuire : Enough tears around here to float a battleship.

• Happy : Babcock wore out the seats of two pairs of pants just sittin' around on his "El Fideldo".

• 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!

• Happy McGuire : You probably talked them to death.

  Judge Blake : In your own vernacular my dear friend Nertz to you!

• Happy : I'm a first class monkey if l can see how you can win pots by buying apples from old dames.

• Happy McGuire : [reading Rodney Kent's telegram in response to requesting the lending of his apartment]  The whole thing sounds insane to me... but, go ahead, use the apartment. My only request is make certain no one puts mustaches on the paintings.

• Happy McGuire : You got a great racket Annie. You get a couple more suckers like the Duke, you can retire in a year.

  Apple Annie : Aw, pull up your chin, Happy. You're liable to step on it.

• Happy McGuire : Well, I give up. When Louis the Lug becomes the ambassador to Turkey, I don't wanna be around anymore.