Strictly Dynamite (1934)

Marian Nixon: Sylvia Montgomery

Quotes 

• Sylvia : [Reading over Nick's shoulder]  "Old New York. The day sleeps in you. And the night rises in you. I'm afraid of you. Are you afraid of me, too?" Gee, Nick, that's good. Isn't it?

  Nick : See, I want to catch the whole spirit of New York. Make it a sort of a Manhattan Symphony or Serenade.

• Sylvia : Well, gee, that's swell. Three months in New York and fired. It's a sure sign of genius.

• Georgie : Well, where's the gags?

  Sylvia : Oh, it doesn't have gags. It's a satire.

  Georgie : Oh, Moxie would give this cabbage the raspberry!

  Sylvia : The what?

  Georgie : This stuff is too mild! Too high brow. You gotta have punch lines. Bellies and...

  Sylvia : Bell- eh, what?

  Georgie : Bellies. Laughs that come from - eh, way down here.

• Georgie : [to Nick]  All's you have to do is bring them up to date. For instance, last year the gag writers took all the old Adam and Eve jokes and made them over for Mahatma Ghandi. This year, they're doing over the same jokes for nudist colonies.

  Sylvia : That's easy enough, isn't it?

• Nick : Don't be a sour puss.

  Sylvia : Sour puss?

  Nick : What's the joke?

  Sylvia : You sound like Moxie.

  Nick : Do I? Well, well that's great. I want to lose that heavy academic manner I used to have.

• Sylvia : You always wanted to do things that were more, more...

  Nick : Yeah, I know, high brow. Say, listen, there's plenty of hokum in Shakespeare.

• Sylvia : Don't lets go on like this. Questions and lies!

  Nick : I'm sorry.

  Sylvia : When we both know that you did go to Atlantic City!

  Nick : I went for hot cakes!

  Sylvia : With her!