Le Tourbillon de la danse (1933)

Clark Gable: Patch Gallagher

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• Patch Gallagher : Yes, yes, yes, the top spot. Where if you drop, you've got twice as far to fall. Maybe I'm a sap for trying. And maybe I can make something out of you if you can stand up when I get through with you.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I've got good legs, Mr. Gallagher.

  Patch Gallagher : Yes, so I've noticed, but don't let them run away with you.

• [last lines] 

  Patch Gallagher : Say, what is this you're dishing out?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Can't you take it?

  [Kiss] 

• Steve : So, you took Warner, eh?

  Patch Gallagher : Yeah, I know she's not so hot, but with all the real talent going Hollywood, you've got to make the best of what you can get.

  Steve : We'll be down to using midgets pretty soon.

  Patch Gallagher : Well, work on her. Use a whip if you have to. She's got to be loosened up by the time we open.

  Steve : I'll offer her candy. Maybe she likes candy.

  Patch Gallagher : Offer her anything but more money.

• Jasper Bradley, Sr. : You didn't really mean to walk out on me just for a few costumes.

  Patch Gallagher : Rather than send beautiful girls out in those, I'd let them go on naked.

  Jasper Bradley, Jr. : You know, Papa, that's a swell idea.

  Jasper Bradley, Sr. : That's the same idea that got you kicked out of school!

• Patch Gallagher : Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : All right.

  Patch Gallagher : Freddie!

  Fred Astaire : Yes, Pat.

  Patch Gallagher : Show Miss Barlow the routine on that opening number, will you?

  Fred Astaire : I'd love to.

• Patch Gallagher : Hey, look, those guys are a lot of silk hats and silk socks with nothing between. That's what all these dames fall for. Don't let it fool you. It never works out.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : But...

  Patch Gallagher : Dancing is your racket, Duchess, I know it.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'm not going to run out on you.

• Patch Gallagher : Maybe I ought to speak Cuban! And it's the same in any language!

• Patch Gallagher : I don't mix business with pleasure.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Well, it'd be a pleasure to me if you'd mind your own business.

  Patch Gallagher : Yeah? Say, listen, its my business to see that you gals keep your shapes, Duchess.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You mean to see that we don't give 'em away.

• Patch Gallagher : Hey, listen, did you ever take a look at a dame who's been out too many nights? The customers out front just love it!

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Will you stop beefin'! You're not on the stage now.

• Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Shake.

  Patch Gallagher : Now, will ya...

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Beat it! Yeah, I know. I'll beat it.

• Patch Gallagher : I've been in this racket for years. If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.

• Patch Gallagher : Listen, Steve, Bradley can't do this to me. I'm gonna carry this show myself. I'm gonna produce it! I've got some dough! And what I haven't got, I'll get! I'll hock my car, my clothes, my house, everything!

  Steve : That's great. And-and-and-and I got some, I got some money I been hoarding against the next Depression. And you can have every dime of it!

  Patch Gallagher : All right! Drag it out!

• Patch Gallagher : Even the creditors are wise. Hangin' around like a pack of hungry wolves.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : But, don't you see, if you could show 'em a hit.

  Patch Gallagher : You can't kid them. I'll be lucky if they let the curtain go up. They know a hit from a bust!

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Oh, Pat, if its gonna be a bust, let me be there when it happens.

• Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I saw your face once, in the wings. It made me feel as if everything I was doin' was wrong.

  Patch Gallagher : I guess I got that kind of a face.

• Patch Gallagher : If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.

• Patch Gallagher : OK, Duchess. Better luck with your show than you had with mine.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Thanks.

• Tod Newton : Hello, Gallagher.

  Patch Gallagher : Well, well, if it isn't the other half of the firm. Back from Havana so soon? Somebody close your show, too?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You trying to be funny, Patch? Tom's not in the show business.

  Patch Gallagher : Another

  [orders a drink after downing a shot] 

  Patch Gallagher : ... Not in the show business huh?

  Tod Newton : Come on away, Janie, he's just a...

  Patch Gallagher : I'm a little drunk, is that what you're trying to say. Well, drunk or sober, my hat's still off to you. There are more ways than one to close a show, and you taught me a new one.

  Tod Newton : That's enough...

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Hey, wait a minute.

  Patch Gallagher : What's the matter? Afraid your boyfriend'll get a poke in the jaw for throwing a hundred people out of work just so he could take you on a joy ride to Cuba?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I don't know what you're talking about,.

  Patch Gallagher : No? Not much.

• Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'll be seeing ya.

  Patch Gallagher : Oh, sure, sure. We'll sit around the fire, whittle sticks, and talk about a girl who traded Broadway for Park Avenue.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You shouldn't have said that, Patch.

  Patch Gallagher : No. No, I shouldn't have said that. And I shouldn't have said anything to you but "beat it" the day you came in here.

• Patch Gallagher : You can't get by with that sort of thing today. You've gotta give 'em something out of modern everyday life. Something out of the city streets.

  Pinky - the Show's Author : I'll kill myself.

• Pinky - the Show's Author : Then, just what is your idea, Mr. Patch?

  Patch Gallagher : My idea would be to write a whole new show.

  Pinky - the Show's Author : Oh, you crucify me.

• Patch Gallagher : That's too bad, because it's going to be changed.

  Pinky - the Show's Author : You can't do that without our say-so...

  Patch Gallagher : It's in my contract that I don't have to put on a turkey. What I say goes.

  Pinky - the Show's Author : Mr. Gallagher, I might say that I've been expecting something like this.

  Pinky's Pal : Now, don't irritate Pinky--you know how he is.

  Patch Gallagher : Sure, sure. I know how he is. I had a cousin like him once. We had to shoot him.

• Patch Gallagher : You got paid for rehearsing. Nobody else did. You didn't think Bradley gave you that, do you?

  Tod Newton : Shut up, Gallagher.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Say, what is this?

  Patch Gallagher : Ah, you don't savvy, eh?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : No.

  Patch Gallagher : Well, maybe I oughtta speak Cuban. It's the same in any language. I suppose you don't know that your boyfriend here paid Bradley to close the show.

  Tod Newton : You can settle that with me, Gallagher. Janie had nothing to do with it.

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Tod, did you...

  Patch Gallagher : Oh, yes, Tod did, and I'd like to take Tod over to the theater right now and feed him to the boys and girls for breakfast. They need something to eat. Well, we'll show 'em tomorrow night, and on my dough.

• Patch Gallagher : Hmm, out with the rich folks, eh?

  Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Just one rich folk.

  Patch Gallagher : One's usually enough.