Easy Living (1937)

Luis Alberni: Mr. Louis Louis

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• Mr. Louis Louis : You look exactly as I thought--only, a hundred percent much better!

• Mr. Louis Louis : Miss Smith, I'm a man like this, I don't beat around de bush to come in the back door. I tell you, this is where you belong and this is where you have to be.

  Mary Smith : Well, I'm perfectly willing.

• Mr. Louis Louis : A beautiful young girl like you has got to have a background. Dis is what you call a background!

  Mary Smith : I should say it is.

  Mr. Louis Louis : No matter where you look, you never find another background that goes so far back!

• Mary Smith : I owe for the week!

  Mr. Louis Louis : Vell, vell, ve'll pay it!

  Mary Smith : Vhy? Eh, why? Why?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Why? I'll tell you why. I don't beat around de backdoor to come down in de corn chutes!

• Mr. Louis Louis : When everything was going so nice.

  Nervous Hotel Registrant : Every cloud has a silver lining in it.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Never mind the weather. We've got a lot of things to worry about!

• Nervous Hotel Registrant : What's the matter?

  Van Buren : Yes?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh. This time the goose is geese or vice versa.

• Mr. Louis Louis : You are a sight for an eyesore!

• Mr. Louis Louis : But Mr. B., she's a phony from Phonyville. She told me she was your palsy-walsy!

• Mr. Louis Louis : [points to icebox]  Gasbox.

  Mary Smith : What?

  Mr. Louis Louis : They tell me it works with gas, but I don't believe it.

• Van Buren : Louis, who do you suppose was in my Salon this morning?

  Mr. Louis Louis : What I suppose was in your Salon? What I need is something in my Salon! Something like, eh, like a convention. And quick!

  Van Buren : You'll never guess?

  Mr. Louis Louis : All right, all right. I'll play a little with you. Who?

  Van Buren : The bull of Broad Street.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Who?

  Van Buren : The bull of Broad Street! With a chicken.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Chickens? Bulls? What do I care?--You don't mean the Ball of bull street?

  Van Buren : That's just what I'm trying to tell you!

  Mr. Louis Louis : With his wife?

  Van Buren : With a dancing partner.

  Mr. Louis Louis : You got the dope? The dame's name? The hangout? Etc.? Etc.?

  Van Buren : I have. But, I haven't the slightest idea of parting with a scrap of it!

  Mr. Louis Louis : Mr. Van Burens, with a little corruption from you...

• Mr. Louis Louis : How can such a phenomenon be a flop?

• Mr. Louis Louis : Please do me a favor and I'll take a peek, huh?

  Mary Smith : At what?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Dis way, I'll show you. Dis way. After you. Dis way. Dis way.

• Mr. Louis Louis : What are you paying now? I mean rent. Rent!

  Mary Smith : $7.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Seven dollar. Sev - 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6--7?

  Mary Smith : Yes, with breakfast, one egg.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Let me see. $7. Seven times seven. 56 minus--My dear young lady, could you make...

  Mary Smith : Not seven times seven, Mr. Louis. One times seven. Seven dollars a week.

  Mr. Louis Louis : A week?

  Mary Smith : With breakfast.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, one egg. $7. a week with a gymnasium. You driving a hard bargain, my dear young lady. $7 a week!

  Mary Smith : But, Mr. Louis, I...

  Mr. Louis Louis : It is yours!

  Mary Smith : But I don't want...

  Mr. Louis Louis : It is yours! You want breakfast, you got it!

  Mary Smith : But, look, I...

  Mr. Louis Louis : I-I want you here. One egg, Two eggs. Three eggs! Ostrich egg! What do I care? I'll send a truck and move you immediates.

• Mary Smith : Oh, you mean you want me to boost your hotel?

  Mr. Louis Louis : That's the exact word! I could not have said that in 10 years. Boost it in the right place and--soon!

  Mary Smith : Well, I'll do my best, Mr. Louis.

  Mr. Louis Louis : And loud!

  Mary Smith : And loud.

  Mr. Louis Louis : And how!

  Mary Smith : And how.

• J.B. Ball : Did you come here to pay or what?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Yes. I come here to pay my respects. Because--and the whole world of financials...

  J.B. Ball : Listen, you! You're three years behind on your first mortgage, two years behind on your second, and one year behind on your third!

• J.B. Ball : You're foreclosed! I'm doing you a favor.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, Mr. B., please. give me six months.

  J.B. Ball : Oh, not on your tintype!

• Wallace Whistling : I don't know who you got living here; but, I tell you the old man don't buy fur coats for dames. If anybody knew, it would be me. Wouldn't it?

  Mr. Louis Louis : I'm telling you: she is, she does; but, you don't.

  Wallace Whistling : I don't what?

  Mr. Louis Louis : You don't know what's going on in New York.

  Wallace Whistling : I don't know what's going on in New York?

  Mr. Louis Louis : You just ain't up to date!

• Mary Smith : Oh, hello. Hello, Santa Claus.

  J.B. Ball : How do you do? How are you getting along?

  Mary Smith : All right.

  Mr. Louis Louis : You know each other, eh? Well-well-well-well.

• Mr. Louis Louis : May I make a suggestion? A little bottle of 1923 Mumms? Don't you think?

  J.B. Ball : No. I do not. I think she should have Georges Goulet 1919.

  Mr. Louis Louis : With guinea hen?

  J.B. Ball : You heard me!

• Mr. Louis Louis : She just give me a buzz. But, I got her entirely mystified.

  J.B. Ball : You've got me entirely mystified too!

• Mr. Louis Louis : Did you see the papers?

  Mary Smith : Yes, I saw the headline.

  Mr. Louis Louis : It says that certain party is tottering. And every time he's tottering, I am tittering.

  Mary Smith : Oh, did something happen to your hotel, Mr. Louis?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, if he's in the soup, the hotel Louis is blewy!

• Mary Smith : What sables?

  Mr. Louis Louis : My dear young lady, we are all alone. Will you please cut the tragedy.

  Mary Smith : Why, I haven't got any sables?

  Mr. Louis Louis : I am trying to give you my friendship and she plays Puss Around The Corner!

• Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, Mr. B., what a sight for an eye sore.

• J.B. Ball : What're you gonna do?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Well, I dunno, but I got a week to do it in.

• Mr. Louis Louis : So you got the dame's name, the hangout, etcetera, etcetera?

  Van Buren : I have, but I haven't the slightest idea of parting with a scrap of it.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Mr. Van Burens,

  [sic] 

  Mr. Louis Louis : with a little corruption from you, the carfew shall not rang next week. Thank you. Thank you.

• Mr. Louis Louis : [showing Mary around the Imperial suite]  Oh, kitchen. Ah, I knew it was hanging around here some place.