Miss Pinkerton (1932)

Joan Blondell: Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton

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• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Here's a dollar, keep the change.

  Taxi Driver : There is no change.

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Then we're even.

• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : So this is romance. Three pair of tonsils and a breakaway kidney all in one day.

  First Nurse : Oh, I'm busy too, Adams. I think I'm losing my mind.

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Probably gone away some place with mine.

• First Nurse : Got a date for tonight?

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Oh, no such luck. I smell so of Chloroform no one but a guy with a gas mask would make a pass at me.

• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Oh, I'm tired and I'm bored! I think I'll donate my pink and white body to science and commit suicide.

• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : What's my rank?

  Police Inspector Patten : What?

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : My rank? My title? If I'm gonna be with the police force, what am I? A female copper or disinfected stool pigeon?

  Police Inspector Patten : Well, let's see. You're a Pinkerton. That's it! Miss Pinkerton of Scotland Yard.

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Oh, that's swell!

• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : You're a great detective. I sometimes wonder how far you'd get if all these wicked criminals didn't go around catching themselves.

• Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : Wrong again, Sherlock Holmes. That boy did not kill Wynn!

  Police Inspector Patten : Just like a woman. You mustn't let those good looking eyes and that calm, innocent babyface fool ya.

  Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton : When I want to be fooled by someone, I'll put myself in your shoes.