Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)

William Newell: Clyde Lyons

Quotes 

• Phil Hale : [Angrily]  That Walker girl can't put it over on me. I'll sue for damages and get them unless you stop the program.

  Clyde Lyons : [Barging into the room, extremely flustered]  Wait! Wait! Sh... she was hungry. She had to eat.

  Phil Hale : Get outa here.

  Rewrite Man : Who had to eat? What?

  Clyde Lyons : Judy Walker. She had to eat his apartment. No, I, I mean she had to move into his food. No, I mean...

  Phil Hale : She had to forge my name?

  Clyde Lyons : Certainly. She couldn't forge her own! She was desperate. The landlord wouldn't listen to her music. No, I mean, I mean she wouldn't raise the rent. I, I mean sh... she had no money, no place to go but out. No parents except one father and mother. But she had rhythm, I mean music. She had beautiful music. You should write so good.

  Phil Hale : What?

  Clyde Lyons : Oh, Phil, she is a poor girl. Give her a leg.

  Phil Hale : What?

  Clyde Lyons : A leg up a chance, you know.