Colleen (1936)

Ruby Keeler: Colleen Reilly

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• Colleen Reilly : [Ames has a black eye]  What you need is some beefsteak for that eye.

  Donald Ames 3rd : Oh, that's just propaganda put out by the meat packers so they can sell more beef.

  Colleen Reilly : Come on, you're not gonna' tell a Reilly how to cure a black eye.

• Pop Reilly : It's a funny thing, Joe, how you always manage to drop in just when we're startin' to eat.

  Joe Cork : Thanks, pop. I'll have a cup of coffee with you. Might go for a block of wheatcakes, too.

  Colleen Reilly : Sorry, Joe, I didn't have time to make wheatcakes this morning.

  Joe Cork : Oh, that's all right. I'll eat anything you got.

  Colleen Reilly : And that's no idle boast.

• Colleen Reilly : I gotta start for work. I won't have time to do these dishes.

  Pop Reilly : Never mind 'em, Colleen. I'll stack 'em in the sink and they'll be ready to wash when you come home.

  Colleen Reilly : [appreciatively]  Thanks, Pa.

• Joe Cork : I really got somethin' this time. Can you imagine a thousand biographies, five hundred bucks a piece, that's a half a million dollars. Two thousands a million dollars. A million dollars invested at four percent, gives me an annual income of $40,000. I'm a millionaire! Ha-ha! Oh, and listen, honey, can you let me have a little change, a quarter or somethin'?

  Colleen Reilly : Okay, millionaire.

• Donald Ames 3rd : Just what are your approximate assets?

  Colleen Reilly : A few Carlo gowns made from materials largely unpaid for.

  Donald Ames 3rd : And these are liabilities.

• Colleen Reilly : [singing]  Every lady's wardrobe always should include, A different gown for every different mood, Oh, how soon the honeymoon can fade away, Without the lure of lovely lingerie, I suppose that every woman knows, The magic and the mystery of clothes...

• Donald Ames 3rd : You design dresses too?

  Colleen Reilly : And hats, in my spare moments.

  Donald Ames 3rd : Oh, if you could only cook.

  Colleen Reilly : I can!

• Colleen Reilly : Oh, that's wonderful, darling.

  Donald Ames 3rd : Well, I'm inclined to let it stay open. I think we should go out and have dinner together - and then come back here and go over the books again.

  Colleen Reilly : If that's an order from the boss, I suppose I have to obey it.

  Donald Ames 3rd : Consider it an order.

  Colleen Reilly : I have considered it, sir.

• Colleen Reilly : Of course, I think you should become well acquainted with the details of the business.

  Donald Ames 3rd : I'd rather become well acquainted with you.

  Colleen Reilly : It's getting late. I better be going.

  Donald Ames 3rd : I'll see you home.

  Colleen Reilly : Oh, you needn't bother.

  Donald Ames 3rd : Now, don't argue with the boss.

• Colleen Reilly : [puts a slab of raw beefsteak on his black eye]  How does it feel?

  Donald Ames 3rd : Feels like you got the whole cow on me!

• Colleen Reilly : Paul, I just remembered I have to send a radiogram. I shouldn't; but, I'm going to.

  Paul Gordon : Give him my love, will you?

• Donald Ames 3rd : [to Colleen while she is dancing with Paul]  I've been nearly frantic. Called you. Sent you telegrams. Well, I love you.

  Paul Gordon : Who me?

  Colleen Reilly : No, me!

  Donald Ames 3rd : Look, old chap, mind if I cut in.

  Paul Gordon : No, not at all. This is where I get off, anyhow.

• Colleen Reilly : [singing]  If you want to win my heart, Don't be too intelligent or smart, Don't go in for literature and art, But, you got to know how to dance. You don't have to have degrees, From a lot of universities, All you need is rhythm in your knees, And you got to know how to dance...

• Colleen Reilly : [after a knock on their door]  See who it is, pop.

  Pop Reilly : I regret to say I am busy.