Boy! What a Girl! (1947)

Tim Moore: Bumpsie

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• Mr. Cummings : I'm also interested in the Opera.

  Bumpsie : You call it Opera, I call it burlesque.

  Mr. Cummings : There's nothing burlesque about the Opera I've seen.

  Bumpsie : Then, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

• Bumpsie : Do you remember the time when I only had a sawbuck and you took that?

• Harry Diggs : Fix yourself up. Go to work on Mr. Cummings. And he'll back the show. And you'll be the star!

  Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  All right, get going, while I make myself alluring.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Lollipop, do you mind if I take a couple of drags off of that cigar?

  Mr. Cummings : A cigar? A lady?

  Bumpsie : Oh, all the lady's smoke in Paris. That's an old boulevard custom.

  Mr. Cummings : Aw, yes, everything goes in Paris.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  I never married because I never found the right woman.

  Mr. Cummings : But, how could you? Who ever heard of anyone marrying a woman?

  Bumpsie : My brother did.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Mr. Cummings! Remember, I am a lady.

  Mr. Cummings : Oh, yes, I completely forgot myself.

• Mme. Deborah Martin : Would you believe it, these stockings cost me a thousand francs in Paris.

  Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  And these cost me 99 cents in a dime store.

• Mme. Deborah Martin : You, of course, had lots of love affairs in Paris?

  Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Love affairs? Chile, I can remember when the opposite sex used to chase me all over the boulevards.

  Mme. Deborah Martin : They really did?

  Bumpsie : Well, not exactly. But, I like to talk about it.

• Mme. Deborah Martin : You know, I find men so interesting. Don't you?

  Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Well, I never cared for a man. That is, only a few. A very select few.

  Mme. Deborah Martin : Why a lovely woman like you should have no difficulties.

• Mme. Deborah Martin : Perhaps, I should try one.

  Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Yeah? Go right ahead, chile. Enjoy yourself.

  Mme. Deborah Martin : I might as well try everything they do in Paris.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  My sentiments: Eat, drink and be merry. Let your joy be unrefined.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  It's called the rent party.

  Mr. Cummings : Rent party? That's an unusual name.

  Donaldson (the landlord) : There's nothing unusual about it. That goes on every night in Harlem.

  Bumpsie : And I let you all know its the custom that when you go upstairs to the rehearsal you drop a little donation.

  Mr. Cummings : Oh, I see, another Paris custom.

  Bumpsie : No, honey. A Harlem custom. Strictly a Harlem custom.

• Bumpsie : [masquerading as a woman]  Come on, lollipop. Let's go before I lose all my indiscretion.