Merry Wives of Reno (1934)

Ruth Donnelly: Lois

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Quotes 

• Lois : Drunk again!

  Tom : Hooray! So am I! Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

• Tom : Somebody should have shot me the day I married you.

  Lois : You wouldn't have felt it. You were too drunk.

• Colonel Fitch : Don't forget - any time after half past eight. Now, don't be late.

  Lois : If you pardon the question, late to what?

  Colonel Fitch : Party! Mrs. Fitch and I are giving a party.

  Madge : Oh, is your wife entertaining?

  Colonel Fitch : Well, not very; but, I'm used to it now.

• Madge : In the hotel.

  Lois : I guess they're used to women screamin' around here.

• Madge : [Madge and Lois get in bed together]  What was that?

  Lois : I don't know.

  Madge : Aw! There's somebody in this bed!

  Colonel Fitch : [pulls down the covers, sees Madge and Lois laying beside him]  Shall I - sleep in the middle?

• Tom : All right, little snookie-wookie, now that you've ordered that fur coat, I suppose I'll have to pay for it. But, that twenty-five hundred dollars is liable to drive me right into the bankruptcy court.

  Lois : Well, if you don't pay for it, they'll drive you right into the morgue.

• Lois : You bald-headed baboon!

• Tom : I took it to the cleaners to get it cleaned.

  Lois : Which cleaners?

  Tom : Huh? Oh, the one around the corner - the cleaning shop and laundry.

  Lois : You mean to say they're open at this hour? Ten o'clock at night!

  Tom : Those Chinamen work all the time.

  Lois : The place on the corner happens to be a French cleaning shop.

  Tom : Huh? The proprietor is from French Indo-China!

• Lois : [to drunk Tom wearing an feathered Indian Chief's headdress]  Get back in your tepees and cut out the war whoops. I want to sleep.

  Hotel Party Guest : Look! It's gonna be a pajama party! Whoopee!

  [starts undressing] 

• Tom : Good morning.

  Lois : It may be good to you; but, my mouth feels like a Chinese family just moved out.

• Tom : That, like last night, was slow poison.

  Lois : Well, I'm in no hurry.

• Tom : You're drunk!

  Lois : How do you know?

  Tom : That's the first time you've kissed me in 19 years.

• Lois : He's my little pudgy-wudgy!

• Lois : Now you can show people you can get just as drunk in Reno as you do in New York.

  Tom : Maybe drunker!

• Lois : You worthless no good liar! You big - rutabaga!

• Tom : All right, little snookie-wookie. Now that you've ordered that fur coat, I, I suppose I'll have to pay for it, but that, that 25 hundred dollars is liable to drive me right into the bankruptcy court!

  Lois : Well, if you don't pay for it they'll drive you right into the morgue!

  Tom : 25 hundred dollars is just the initial cost. You've got to add to that the price of my breakfast every morning at Child's.

  Lois : What's the matter with the breakfast *I* get you?

  Tom : Well, the 19 years I've been married to you, I never had a chance to find out whether you can cook or not. You've always started a quarrel before I got started eatin'.

• Tom : Snookie-wookie?

  Lois : What?

  Tom : Would you divorce me for fifty dollars a week alimony?

  Lois : I will for a hundred and fifty.

  Tom : Ohh, make it seventy-five.

  Lois : You're pretty low, but you're not in the bargain basement.

  Tom : Well, I gotta live too.

  Lois : *Why?*

• Lois : [to Bunny Fitch]  So you're the dame my husband's been running around with. I got a notion to scratch my initials all over your face.

  [Bunny gasps, her hand goes to her cheek]