- Lola Burns: Hey, I didn't give you that for a negligee, it's an evening wrap!
- Loretta: I know, Miss Lola, but the negligee what you give me got all tore up, night before last.
- Lola Burns: Your day off is sure brutal on your lingerie.
- Gifford Middleton: Your hair is like a field of silver daisies. I'd like to run barefoot through your hair!
- Lola Burns: Get away from me, all of you! You're nothing but a pack of leeches!
- Pops: Leeches?
- Lola Burns: Yes, leeches! At least he
- [motions to Space]
- Lola Burns: was right; I don't know how I expected to bring a baby in here with an old fool for his grandfather who's half-drunk all the time!...
- Pops: After the way I've worked to handle your affairs...
- Lola Burns: Well, what about my affairs! Where are they? Why aren't my bills paid? Where does my money go? I never see any of it!
- Mac: Lola, you're exciting yourself...
- Lola Burns: Well, what are you doing about you? Don't think I don't know about your stealing and all the cuts you get from the stores! And you
- Elsie, Hanlon's Secretary: Aw, listen, Sis...
- Lola Burns: And you who never, haven't had a job to your name for three years and bringing her in here like it was a hotel for traveling salesmen! I've only stood it because it's the only home and family I've got. But I'm getting sick of it, you understand? There's only Loretta and the dogs that ever do a single thing for me. All the rest of you are just out for what you can get and I'm getting pretty tired of being a golden goose or whatever you call it!
- Space Hanlon: Atta girl, Sugar!
- Lola Burns: Don't "atta girl" me! I never want to see you again as long as I breath. You're worse than all the rest of 'em!
- [starts quoting Space]
- Lola Burns: "Stone-Age Stuff!" "Mad with Desire!" "Lovers' Brawl!" Is that the way you prove you just more than care for me? Treating me like a strip act in a burlesque show! A glamorous Bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been! Well, I'm through do you understand? With the business, with everybody! You can get another "It Girl," a "But Girl" or a "How, When and Where Girl." I'm clearing out - and you can all stay here in this half-paid-for car barn and get somebody else to pull the apple cart! I'm going where ladies and gentlemen hang their hats and get some peace and quiet... and if any of you try to interfere with me - I'll complain to the authorities!
- Lola Burns: Hey! This isn't orange juice.
- Winters: No, Miss, it-it's it-it's sauerkraut juice.
- Lola Burns: Well, take it away. It's like dipping your tongue in lox.
- Winters: But, but I'm sorry, Miss. But, there weren't any oranges.
- Lola Burns: No oranges? This is California, Man!
- Lola Burns: You hardly know me?
- Gifford Middleton: I've known you in every ripple of moonlight I've ever seen. In every symphony I've ever heard. In every perfume I've ever smelt.
- Lola Burns: How do you think I enjoy reading all that scandal that hasn't an ounce of truth in it?
- Space Hanlon: I've told you, sugar, it isn't what you like to read. It's what the public likes to read.
- Man Claiming to Be Lola's Husband: Rib? Rib? That's it! I'm Adam, you're Eve. You came from one of my ribs.
- Lola Burns: I came from Peoria.
- Lola Burns: All right, Mac, have 'em bring around my roadster.
- Mac: Your brother took the roadster to Tijuana.
- Lola Burns: Tijuana? Say, who told him that...
- Pops: I sent Junior down there to look over a crop of fillies with the idea of a possible purchase...
- Lola Burns: I know the kinda fillies he'll look over!
- Space Hanlon: Oh, Lola, honey, baby girl, you don't have to keep a stiff upper lip with me. You know - hey, listen - what's his name? That's all I wanna know! Don't tell me it's that - it's that...
- Lola Burns: Don't be silly! I don't even know his name yet.
- Space Hanlon: You don't know his name? You mean you - you know - well, holy smoke, when are you gonna find out?
- Lola Burns: If its any of your business, as soon as I adopt the baby and get a good name to suit him.
- Space Hanlon: Ohhhhh, so you're gonna adopt a baby.
- Lola Burns: So, I'm not gonna kidnap one!
- Space Hanlon: For minute there you had me thinkin' you were going in for independent production!
- Space Hanlon: Well, that ungrateful little pirate. She wants my job, does she? After I got the whole country talking about her with the coffee cups this morning. No actress has had a break like that, since the dark lady... sung Mamie songs. Imagine that little Peoria cornflower trying to give me the runaround! Ha!
- Space Hanlon: What's all this - em - this - eh - tornado about you gonna kick a bassinet around the house? Huh?
- Lola Burns: You would try to be funny about it.
- Space Hanlon: Well, do you mean - you mean - it's true? A-a baby?
- Lola Burns: Yes. And this is one thing I don't need any help from you on!
- Space Hanlon: I'm from the telephone company. You might not know it but there is something a matter with your telephone. Where is it?
- Yokahama: Phone? There! I talk phone just now. Work good.
- Space Hanlon: [to the Asian butler] Probably what happened to it - you "confused" it.
- Space Hanlon: Now listen you illiterates, play this up big and we'll be on the front page for a month!
- Reporter: She's got a fat chance of adopting a kid now.
- Space Hanlon: Well, why should she? You think I want my Bombshell to turn into a rubber nipple?
- Gifford Middleton: We'll be married, dear heart, and go together to Utopia.
- Lola Burns: You mean, around the world?
- Gifford Middleton: Around the universe! To the moon! I'll put the ring of Saturn on your finger. We'll sleep on Venus. The Milky Way shall be our coverlet.
- Lola Burns: Oh, not even Norma Shearer or Helen Hayes in their nicest pictures were ever spoken to like that.
- Lola Burns: You can take your Boston's and your Bunker Hill's and your bloodline's and stuff a codfish with 'em! And then you know what you can do with the codfish!
- Jim Brogan: Hi ya, babe!
- Lola Burns: They just told me you'd come back on the lot. Gee, you look swell.
- Jim Brogan: So do you, Lola.
- Lola Burns: I was sorry to hear about your divorce.
- Jim Brogan: Oh, don't be. Maybe that's why I'm looking so good.
- Lola Burns: Jim, now what are you mad about?
- Jim Brogan: [about Hugo] Listen, will you kindly tell that glorified barber to get off my set?
- Lola Burns: He's not a barber. He speaks French and Spanish and Italian.
- Jim Brogan: I don't care if he speaks Eskimo. I don't like him. Tell him to get off.
- Lola Burns: He's got royal blood in his veins.
- Jim Brogan: I don't care if he's got a royal flush in his kidneys. Tell him to scram! I can't stand him, I tell you. Tell him to get off!
- Lola Burns: You can't talk that way about Hugo.
- Jim Brogan: Yeah? They told me you'd fallen for that gigolo, but I didn't believe it.
- Mrs. Titcomb: Oh, I just hate to go, but I think I have everything, don't you?
- Lola Burns: Oh, do stay and have luncheon, Mrs. Titcomb.
- Mrs. Titcomb: No, dear. I must dash off and start putting down the words. They're just itching at the tips of my pinkies!
- Mrs. Titcomb: Tell me, dear. You're a woman. You're the sweet, unspoiled child I knew you were. But don't you ever... in the midst of the grueling pace of your career... doesn't there ever come a longing for... the right of all womanhood?
- Lola Burns: Uh... let' see, uh... you mean that, uh...
- Mrs. Titcomb: I mean, don't you ever find yourself listening for the patter of little feet?
- Lola Burns: Why... oh, yes, Mrs. Titcomb. Yes.
- Mrs. Titcomb: The call of motherhood is so strong in some women. The call of fatherhood in men, too. Sometimes I think that's what killed Mr. Titcomb. Oh, well, we must all bear the cross that's given us, I always say.
- Jim Brogan: Who were those two dowagers in there?
- Lola Burns: They're two ladies from the foundling home. How do you think I'm ever going to adopt that little baby when you come in here broadcasting like a sailor?
- Jim Brogan: Now, listen, Lola. You're not really serious about that, are you?
- Lola Burns: Yes. Oh, he's beautiful. I saw him today. He's got the cutest little button nose and the tiniest little mouth.
- Jim Brogan: Those three sheepdogs and that brother of yours are not enough, huh?
- Mac: Lola, the Studio car just arrived with this new script. You'll have to get right over there.
- Lola Burns: Studio? Well, what about location?
- Mac: It's raining out in Riverside...
- Lola Burns: Oh, new scenes, new lines everything.
- [Looks at the script]
- Lola Burns: Well, what's this? I don't recognize it?
- Mac: Retakes on "Red Dust". The Hayes Office censored something and the picture's got to open Monday in New York. Come on, we'll have to hurry.
- Lola Burns: But, I don't know these lines. Gosh, that means a different make-up and I have to have my hair changed again. I ask you, Miss Carroll, as one lady to another - isn't that a load o' clams?
- Mac: Yes, I know it's six o'clock and I know she's due on location at 7:30 and I know she's to wear the white dress without the brassiere and I know you'll always be a second assistant director because you don't think anybody else is capable of thinking for himself or herself!
- Lola Burns: You've been out all night and you're still boiled!
- Pops: I've been in conference with some racing men. We've been discussing methods of breeding.
- Lola Burns: Don't talk to me about your methods of breeding. I don't want to hear another word.
- Studio Worker: We're all ready on Stage 7, Lola. So, snap into it, will ya, please.
- Lola Burns: All right... all right! Have some coffee on the set, will ya?
- Studio Worker: You know the new lines?
- Lola Burns: I'll have 'em - but, don't think I'm gonna get in that rain barrel if the water's as cold as it was last time. A polar bear would have died!
- Studio Worker: It's heated, Lola. Honest!
- Lola Burns: Hi ya... back in Indochina again! Say, where's Clark? Isn't he working in this with me?
- Studio Workman: Clark's on 15, til noon. We're gonna shoot your close-ups first.
- Jim Brogan: I was a fool to ever look at anybody but you, Lola.
- Lola Burns: You kinda stood me up, didn't ya, Jim. I guess a girl's got to lose her head once, just to get it back again for keeps.
- Jim Brogan: Now, look Lola, you're in the barrel, see. And Gable comes around there and when he gets opposite here, you watch my hand for the signal, you start splashing the water and laughing.
- Lola Burns: Four hundred dollars.
- Pops: Yes, I want to wire it right away.
- Lola Burns: Who for?
- Pops: Well, Junior didn't explain; he just telephoned...
- Lola Burns: Oh, I get it! Tijuana again. They've been giving him a sleigh ride on the roulette wheel.
- Pops: Now, Lola, you mustn't be too hard on your brother...
- Lola Burns: Not another nickel! He's been supporting every gambling joint on that border with his millionaire complex and my money!
- Pops: Yeh, but they're liable to hold him...
- Lola Burns: Well, let them hold him. Let them put him to work on a rockpile. I don't care. I'm through. He's a liar and a no-good and a - oh, what the heck. Ma liked him.
- [signs the check]
- Coconut Grove Bandleader: Good evening, everybody. This is Gus Arnheim speaking to you from the Coconut Grove. I see quite a few notables here this evening, folks. Why, right here in front of us, I see the beautiful Lola Burns. The bombshell herself, folks.
- Lola Burns: What are you gonna do?
- Space Hanlon: Oh, I don't know. I've been wantin' to get away for a long time, anyway. China, maybe. Australia. Tahiti. The South Seas. I guess that's as good a place as any, to end things up, when you're a failure.
- Lola Burns: You mean, like, Gable did in "Susan Lenox" with all those sailors and women?
- Space Hanlon: Yes, I guess it won't be so hard to - forget.
- Space Hanlon: Ha-ha! Anytime Jim Brogan does anything out of pure friendship for a dame, I'll call the undertaker, he's dead!
- Space Hanlon: Listen, you can't adopt a baby!
- Lola Burns: As if you or anybody else could stop me.
- Space Hanlon: Yeh, but that isn't your line! The fans don't want to see the "It" girl surrounded by an aura of motherhood leanin' over a cradle, sterilizin' bottles. I dubbed you the Hollywood Bombshell and that's the way the like ya! Men. Scrapes. Dazzing Clothes. A gorgeous pinwheel personality. Not pattin' babies on the back to bring up bubbles!
- Space Hanlon: Okay, baby, you win. But I'll tell you one thing, this home, with your family, is as a fine a place to bring up a baby as an alligator farm!
- Nellie, Junior's Girl Friend: Here's Sonny boy, C.O.D.
- Lola Burns: Who are you? Where did you come from?
- Nellie, Junior's Girl Friend: Oh, you're Burns, aren't ya? Oh, your little brother ran across me cryin' my eyes out down in San Diego. It's awful lonesome down there when the fleets in Honolulu.
- Lola Burns: [Drunken Junior starts to sing loudly] Shhhh! Please! I've got some nice people - some ladies in there.
- Junior Burns: Ladies? I love the ladies!
- Jim Brogan: Oh, now listen, Lola, if you're really that serious, let's get married.
- Lola Burns: Oh, no, Jim, no.
- Jim Brogan: Oh, you changed your mind since this morning. What's the matter?
- Lola Burns: Oh, it's different now. It's gone beyond anything fleshy.
- Space Hanlon: Now, get this you Seminoles, get this in your lead: Two Lovers Brawl In Burns Home. You know, jealousy angle. Primitive stuff. Stone age. Two savages fighting over a gorgeous girl. Mad with desire. Use some of the lines you had in those pulp novel you've all been writin' for a long time.
- Space Hanlon: Don't worry. She can't get very far without being spotted. There's 110 million people that know that face and know that figure.
- Lola Burns: As if, Gillette ever thought of *me* in connection with "Alice in Wonderland".
- Space Hanlon: Well, there's the item right there. I released it myself on his own memo. You were to do it next. He finally got wised up to the kind of parts you ought to play.
- Lola Burns: Well, it's too late now.
- Space Hanlon: Swell part though, I hear that, eh, Alice Cole is gonna do it.
- Lola Burns: Just because her name is Alice, I suppose.
- Space Hanlon: Oh, no, no, no. She's a perfect Janet Gaynor type. You know, sweet and untouchable.
- Gifford Middleton: Well, then, I must have seen you sculptured on a frieze. You're like Diana, riding a Macedonian stallion. You're some slim, lovely Amazon riding proudly in her captor's wake. Or, perhaps you're just the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Do you mind my saying these things to you?
- Gifford Middleton: Oh, Lola, my dearest, your mouth is like a gardenia open to the sun. Your lips...
- Pops: Daughter! Daughter. What a nightmare! Leaving us this way with bitterness in your heart - and no money.
- Mr. Middleton: I can't understand why Lewis Stone gets all these parts.
- Mrs. Middleton: I've always been compared to Alice Brady.
- Space Hanlon: Yes. Yes. I know. And you know everybody thought I was Jackie Cooper until Great Garbo took me on her lap one day. Well, I'll be seein' ya!
- Space Hanlon: Well, listen. Don't you know that Lola Burns can't have a baby?
- Reporter: No? No? Why?
- Space Hanlon: It's not in her contract.
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