Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Phyllis Brooks: Barbara Shea

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• Barbara Shea : Now don't you stay up listening to that music. You just shut your eyes and go right to sleep.

  Betsy Brown : I'll shut my eyes, but it'll probably come in through my ears.

• Barbara Shea : [on the telephone]  This is Mr. Shea's daughter. My father isn't home right n - Well, I'm awfully sorry the boys are rehearsing, but I'll be glad to...

  Sarah Wendling : [on the telephone]  I'm tired of warning you people. I won't have my nights disturbed by a lot of noisy riffraff. I won't put up with it any longer!

  Barbara Shea : I'm sorry, Miss Wendling, I'll go right up and...

  Sarah Wendling : [hangs up]  .

  Betsy Brown : What's wrong?

  Barbara Shea : She called us a lot of riffraff.

  Betsy Brown : Who?

  Barbara Shea : Our landlady.

  Betsy Brown : I didn't know we had one.

  Barbara Shea : Well, if you ever see a pumpkin in one of the windows next door and it isn't Halloween, that's our landlady.

• William J. 'Pop' Shea : Well, Mr. Wendling, I can't possibly raise the money in five days.

  Roger Wendling : Well, Mr. Shea, I was going to make a suggestion before your daughter so graciously knighted me. I was going to suggest that perhaps I could lend you the twenty-five hundred. Why not?

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : You'd lend...? Thanks a million!

  Betsy Brown : Thanks TWO million- one for me!

  Barbara Shea : I'm sorry, but we can't accept your generous offer.

  William J. 'Pop' Shea : Why not, Barbara?

  Barbara Shea : Because I don't know how we'd be able to pay it back, and we're not going to be at the mercy of some spiteful old moneybag who calls us a lot of riffraff!

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, I've come here to tell you to let this nephew of mine alone. You let him pay your rent for you, didn't you?

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah!

  Barbara Shea : I don't have to listen to this!

  Roger Wendling : Aunt Sarah, that was uncalled for, unkind, and untrue!

  Betsy Brown : Uncle Roger didn't give us any money! We got it from - from someone else.

  Sarah Wendling : So it's Uncle Roger now, is it? Is Miss Shea your mother?

  Betsy Brown : Practically.

  Roger Wendling : Betsy is Mr. Shea's adopted child.

  Sarah Wendling : Adopted, eh? So they brought her into this wholesome atmosphere, nice place for a child. Why, she's using her as a decoy, and you don't you have the sense to realize it!

• Sarah Wendling : Young lady, give your father a message from me that he's being disposessed.

  Barbara Shea : Oh, you can't!

  Sarah Wendling : I'm tearing the hotel down.

  Barbara Shea : But he paid his rent!

  Sarah Wendling : He's violated his lease by having all sorts of animals on the premises. He'll save himself a lot of trouble by getting right out.

  Roger Wendling : I'll have something to say about this.

  Sarah Wendling : I'm afraid you will not, as our attorney will inform you. Furthermore, Roger, if you continue your association with this woman...

  Roger Wendling : Continue it? I was just trying to get her to make it permanent!