Lady for a Day (1933)

Warren William: Dave the Dude

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• 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.

• 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?

• Judge Henry G. Blake : It was a wise old sage who said that every man over forty should be exterminated.

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : Yeah, who said that?

  Judge Henry G. Blake : I dunno, but someone should've said it.

• Shakespeare : Hey, Dude, you mind if I have an idea?

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : Yeah?

  Shakespeare : Well, this here society friend of yours, uh... Rodney Kent, he's got an apartment at The Marberry...

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : He has, so what about it? What about it? Can you picture me goin' to Rodney Kent and sayin' "Lend me your apartment for Apple Annie?" He'd throw me out on my ear.

  Shakespeare : Huh. That's just what I was gonna say. He'd throw you out on your ear.

  Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : Shut up abut it, then!

  Shakespeare : I was just gonna do that.

• 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!

• Dave the Dude : I don't know what stops me from puttin' the slug on you.