Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Glenda Farrell: Torchy Blane
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Quotes
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Torchy Blane : I think I'll have a snoop instead of a steak.
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Charles Gilbert : [after hearing Gahagan slurping his soup] How did you find your soup?
Gahagan : Oh, I just looked into the dish and there it was and it was swell.
Torchy Blane : Hmm. So, I heard.
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Gahagan : [about his betting system] Okay, I'll tell it to you, but yuh gotta keep mum.
Torchy Blane : I'll be very secree-tive.
Gahagan : I don't care about that, but yuh gotta keep it mum.
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Torchy Blane : So, they've got you muzzled. Well, listen, big boy, they're not gonna muzzle me. I'm a newspaper woman with a set of old fashioned morals and ethics that tell me I have an obligation to my readers. I'm gonna crack this Gilbert case and if you don't print this story I'll take it to a paper that will!
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Torchy Blane : Come on. I'm all ears and my palm itches.
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Gahagan : I'll tell you how it works. First, I concentrate. Sort of, go into a trance. Then I make me mind go blank.
Torchy Blane : That should be very easy.
Gahagan : Make my mind go blank? It's the easiest part of the system.
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Gahagan : Remember, keep my system to yourself. Only me and you and Steve know anything about it.
Torchy Blane : Did you let Steve in on it?
Gahagan : Oh, sure. But, you know Steve. I think the system is a little too much for his mental fatality.
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Torchy Blane : [at the racetrack] Hello, stranger.
Police Captain McTavish : Oh, hello Torchy. What are you doin' here?
Torchy Blane : I came out to interview a horse; but, he's like the police department - he won't talk.
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Steve McBride : Listen, Torchy, what's the idea of tailing Mr. Gilbert?
Torchy Blane : So, he's been telling tales to teacher, huh?
Steve McBride : Listen! You'll keep out of it, if I have to frame a charge and throw you in jail!
Torchy Blane : Oh, swell. Then I'll have you pitched for false arrest and maybe they'll put us in the same cell. Wouldn't that be ducky!
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Torchy Blane : Gahagan, a light begins to glimmer in the gloom.
Gahagan : What gloom glimmers where?
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Gahagan : Oh, Torchy!
Torchy Blane : What's the matter?
Gahagan : Oh, I feel a poem comin' on: "If my job I should lose, You can blame a dame, You can't blame booze, And I'll tell you where to put the blame, Upon the head of Torchy Blane."
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Maxie : I don't like it, Torchy. Now, Bailey isn't supposed to be a killer. But, if he's cornered, he'll bite and scratch like the other rats.
Torchy Blane : Well, this cat can do a little scratching on her own, too, you know.
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Charles Gilbert : Well, Miss Blane.
Torchy Blane : Hello, Mr. Gilbert.
Charles Gilbert : Come in. What a persistent pursuer.
Torchy Blane : It's the ink in my blood, I guess.
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Torchy Blane : Steak! Oh, you must have known I was coming.
Charles Gilbert : So, you are partial to steaks, Miss Blane?
Torchy Blane : Aw! It's the fondest thing I is of.
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Charles Gilbert : We'll detain only until I finish my little job at the track.
Torchy Blane : And when will that be?
Charles Gilbert : Well, that depends upon another charming and unpredictable member of your sex: Lady Luck.
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Torchy Blane : [upon learning she and Gahagan are to be bound and gagged] Maybe I shoulda married Steve and had babies?