The Kid from Kokomo (1939)

Pat O'Brien: William Jennings 'Billy, 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy

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• Doris Harvey : Square Shootin' Murphy, a one-man brain trust. You run around with a lot of palookas for years and when you finally get ahold of a future world's champion, you don't even know it!

  William Jennings 'Billy : Oh, quite beefin', will ya. That lug was gettin' in my hair. We'll get along.

• Doris Harvey : I was a fool to give up my career!

  William Jennings 'Billy : What career? I'm not going to have a new wife of mine tossin' her torso around to the public.

  Doris Harvey : What wife?

  William Jennings 'Billy : Well, you know what I mean.

  Doris Harvey : Ya, I know what you mean. When you're in the dough you're too busy to marry me and when you're broke you haven't got the money for the license.

• William Jennings 'Billy : If you must dance, can't you do it with some clothes on?

  Doris Harvey : If I had any clothes on they'd know I couldn't dance!

• William Jennings 'Billy : Can you imagine a radio announcer chewin' on a mouthful of Ladislaus Klewicki?

  Doris Harvey : Can you imagine Ladislaus Klewicki chewin' on a mouthful of radio announcer?

• William Jennings 'Billy : He's slap happy.

  Eddie Black : He's punch drunk.

  Doris Harvey : I don't know. He makes sense to me.

  William Jennings 'Billy : I still say he's slap happy! Come on, you. Snap out of it. You're as wacky as he is.

• William Jennings 'Billy : You just listen to her, fella. She knows all about those things. After all, women and mothers are...

  Eddie Black : Yeah, the same kinda people, ain't they?

• Doris Harvey : What's the matter now?

  William Jennings 'Billy : Eddie threw a beer stein at some guy and hit a cop. I gotta go down to the cooler and spring 'em.

• William Jennings 'Billy : In the meantime, turn on that charm while I'm gone.

  Doris Harvey : Shall I do my bubble dance?

  William Jennings 'Billy : Do anything you want. No bubble dance!

• William Jennings 'Billy : Next time you make the hoosegow, I hope they throw the key away.

• Doris Harvey : Prince Philip, where'd you get drizzle-puss?

  William Jennings 'Billy : Night court.

• William Jennings 'Billy : Sell Homer? Are you kidding? He'll knock this palooka right back to the hobo jungle where I found him.

  Curley Bender : One of these days you're going to irrigate me. Yeah! You're going to irrigate me!

• William Jennings 'Billy : What about that dame?

  Muscles Malone : I don't feel like talkin' today.

  William Jennings 'Billy : Ah, come on, you talked to Eddie yesterday, didn't ya?

  Muscles Malone : Well, that was different. There was ten bucks in it.

  William Jennings 'Billy : [hands him a bill]  Sawbuck.

• Muscles Malone : Hey, what is this, what's going on?

  Doris Harvey : That's the judge who threw me in the clink for doing my bubble dance.

  William Jennings 'Billy : What's the difference? He'll never know you with your clothes on.