Three Little Words (1950)

Fred Astaire: Bert Kalmar

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Quotes 

• Bert Kalmar : I wouldn't write that song with you if you begged me.

  Harry Ruby : Begged ya? I didn't even ask ya.

  Bert Kalmar : I guess you just can't help it, Harry. I feel sorry for you.

  Harry Ruby : Feel sorry for me? You must think I'm just a...

  Bert Kalmar : I could tell you what I think of you in just three little words. You're a dope!

• Bert Kalmar : Hey, wait a minute. You're not walking out on me, are you?

  Jessie Brown : Not yet.

  Bert Kalmar : What'd you open the door for?

  Jessie Brown : Because I'm a nice girl, Mr. Kalmar. And a nice girl always leaves the door open.

• Bert Kalmar , Harry Ruby : [singing]  I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise, An angel's voice I hear, I mean my mammy, dear...

• Bert Kalmar : There hasn't been a good Japanese song for quite awhile. I got something here I thought might work out. I call it, "So long, Oo-long."

• Bert Kalmar : [singing]  Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm weak, maybe I'm strong. But nevertheless I'm in love with you...

• Bert Kalmar : Read a book sometime. It might improve your brain.

• Bert Kalmar : Look, it's okay to admire my wife; but, would you mind taking your elbow out of my butter.

• Harry Ruby : [singing]  Hooray for Captain Spaulding, The African Explorer!

  Bert Kalmar : Did someone call me Schnorrer?

  Bert Kalmar , Harry Ruby : Hooray, hooray, hooray!

• Bert Kalmar : [singing]  Three little words, eight little letters, Which simply mean I love you.

• Bert Kalmar : I've got a great idea. An opening for the new act. I come out in one, see, I'm a magician.

  Jessie Brown : Oh, a magician.

  Bert Kalmar : Yeah! I'm in full dressed suit, medals on my chest, maybe a mustache and a little goatee.

  Jessie Brown : [sarcastically]  Yes, I adore little goatees.

• Bert Kalmar : Don't fool around with that goose. He's vicious!

  Harry Ruby : Well, they usually are.

• Bert Kalmar , Harry Ruby : [singing]  Lawdy, hear my plea, Make me what I wanna be, A rolling stone just rolling home to my sunny Tennessee.

• Bert Kalmar : What are you gaping at?

  Harry Ruby : I'm not gaping.

• Terry Lordel : Snooky rehearsed me in it.

  Bert Kalmar : Snooky?

  Terry Lordel : Snooky! This is Snooky.

  Bert Kalmar : Hi ya, Snooky!

  Harry Ruby : Aw, she calls me Snooky.

  Terry Lordel : Isn't he sweet. Aw, I could eat him up! Rrrrrr!

• Terry Lordel : Light me, please?

  Bert Kalmar : I beg your pardon?

  Terry Lordel : Light me.

  Bert Kalmar : Oh, yes, of course. Sure.

  [lights Terry's cigarette] 

• Jessie Brown Kalmar : I still think Harry's in love.

  Bert Kalmar : Don't be silly. Just because a fella writes a romantic tune that doesn't mean he has to be Beethoven.