The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Ginger Rogers: Dinah Barkley
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Quotes
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Dinah Barkley : You didn't want to go.
Josh Barkley : Do you?
Dinah Barkley : No.
Josh Barkley : Then, why all the hesitation? All you have to say is, "I'm sorry, I can't make it" or something. You acted as flustered as a school girl at her first prom.
Dinah Barkley : Well, you - you flustered me! What kind of talk is that? "Gotta go put on the old feedbag!"
Josh Barkley : Aw, that fellow brings out the gangster in me?
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Josh Barkley : What? What?
Dinah Barkley : What's the matter?
Ezra Miller : Nothing, I just thought I'd rescue you from that jungle of squares.
Josh Barkley : Well, thanks pal.
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Jacques Pierre Barredout : We haven't met. I'm Jacques Barredout.
Dinah Barkley : Oh, how do you do? Of course, I should have recognized you from your pictures.
Jacques Pierre Barredout : I'm glad you didn't. They're frightful. The only good one I have is rather indecent, I'm afraid - taken on a bear skin rug at three months.
Dinah Barkley : O, I have one of those too!
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Dinah Barkley : I got in the most interesting conversation with Mister, eh, Monsieur Barredout. Allow me to present, Mousieur Barredout, Mister Husband.
Josh Barkley : Barkley's the name.
Jacques Pierre Barredout : How do you do?
Josh Barkley : How do you do?
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Dinah Barkley : I really don't know what to think of Mr. Barredout. He said some of the silliest, most stupid things.
Josh Barkley : Well, let's hear some of those silly, stupid things you were so afraid he'd repeat to me.
Dinah Barkley : Well, if you really must know, he just *hated* the show.
Josh Barkley : Oh! Did he! I'm glad. Now I know it's good.
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Dinah Barkley : He says I'm a great tragic actress, wasted in musical comedy.
Josh Barkley : You! A tragic actress! I'm glad you told me. Now, I know he's a complete imbecile!
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Dinah Barkley : Before I really went into the theater, in High School, I played Juliet. "Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo."
Josh Barkley : Who played Romeo?
Dinah Barkley : Mildred Higgins. She was quite...
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Josh Barkley : You couldn't walk across the stage without me. There isn't a gesture you do that I didn't teach you!
Dinah Barkley : That's a lie!
Josh Barkley : It took a lot of patience to put you where you are. I worked! I pulled things out of you. I molded you - like - like Svengali did Trilby!
Dinah Barkley : Svengali!
Josh Barkley : Yeah, the guy with the beard. That's me!
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Dinah Barkley : I'm horrible. I'm just horrible! I know what let's do. Come on, now, hit me!
Josh Barkley : In cold blood?
Dinah Barkley : Well, come on, I deserve it.
Josh Barkley : Aw, you look so brave. You didn't even ask to be blindfolded. I just can't!
Dinah Barkley : I insist upon being punished!
Josh Barkley : All right. All right! You asked for it!
[gives Dinah a big kiss instead]
Dinah Barkley : Oh, thank you, darling.
Josh Barkley : Thank you!
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Dinah Barkley : I'm sorry to be so stupid; but, why am I a pancake?
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Josh Barkley : [singing] I thought you were fallin' for Andy MacPherson.
Dinah Barkley : Ney, ney. He became an impossible person. But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?
Josh Barkley : She talked when I putted and drove me to frenzie. But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?
Dinah Barkley : It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal. And weren't ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?
Josh Barkley : I tasted her cooking. T'would make me a hermit. How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon.
Dinah Barkley : His neck had a head on, but there wasn't much in.
Josh Barkley : And what about Sandy?
Dinah Barkley : His hands were too handy. And wasn't there a Jenny?
Josh Barkley : I'm not wantin' any. I'm not wantin' any but you...
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Dinah Barkley , Josh Barkley : [singing] A weekend in the country, Healthy and full of sport.
Dinah Barkley : And then it isn't small potatoes
Josh Barkley : When you get those fresh tomatoes.
Ezra Millar : I've a list of fresh tomatoes, Suing me now in court!
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Ezra Millar : [singing] Ah, gimme the milk from the moo cow.
Dinah Barkley : Of corn right from the field I'm fond.
Ezra Millar : In town I'd be splurgin', On venison and sturgeon, Beside - a beautiful blonde...
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Dinah Barkley : He believes in me. He gives me confidence in myself. All you've ever done is tear me down, make me feel like a nobody, your little sidekick! "Can't even walk across the stage without you!"
Josh Barkley : Right!
Dinah Barkley : "Can't even make a gesture!"
Josh Barkley : Correct.
Dinah Barkley : Big, fat Svengali!
Josh Barkley : You're darn tootin'!
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Dinah Barkley : If you're here to play cupid again, you can just put away your arrows.
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Josh Barkley : [on the phone pretending to be Jacques] Incidentally, while we're in rehearsal, I wish you wouldn't be so - demonstrative.
Dinah Barkley : So - what?
Josh Barkley : Demonstrative.
Dinah Barkley : What do you mean?
Josh Barkley : Well, throwing your arms around my neck and kissing me in front of the company is most embarrassing. We'll have none of that.
Dinah Barkley : Why, Jacques?
Josh Barkley : Discipline, you know.
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Dinah Barkley : Look, Josh, that wasn't just another squabble we had. Our break-up wasn't just a whim of the moment. It's been coming for a long, long time. It had to happen. You - you've been taking me for granted too long. I have to stand on my own two feet as a - as a person *and* as an actress. Until I do, I can't take time to think about - us - or anything connected with the future. And that's how its got to be.
Josh Barkley : You really do mean it, don't you?
Dinah Barkley : Yes, I do.
Josh Barkley : Thanks for the dance.
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Josh Barkley : I hope you'll find your new director easier to get along with - than I was.
Dinah Barkley : I doubt that. Good-bye.
Josh Barkley : Good-bye.
Dinah Barkley : Don't you even want to - shake hands?
[imitating Josh imitating Jacques' French accent]
Dinah Barkley : Perhaps you should not be quite so demonstrative. Throwing your arms around me and kissing me in front of all of those people. Discipline, you know. Discipline.
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Josh Barkley : Dinah, you know.
[Dinah shakes her head "yes"]
Josh Barkley : And - and you tortured me like this?
Dinah Barkley : Just a little torture.
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Josh Barkley : You're such a wonderful girl. You're such a talented actress. Oh, your performance was magnificent! You don't know how great you are! I have an idea for play.
Dinah Barkley : Darling, I don't want to do another play.
Josh Barkley : No more dramas?
Dinah Barkley : No biography.
Josh Barkley : No messages?
Dinah Barkley : No worrying about the plot!
Josh Barkley : No?
Dinah Barkley : No!
Josh Barkley : Then we'll have nothing but fun set to music.
Dinah Barkley : Yes!
Josh Barkley : We'll have - tempo.
Dinah Barkley : Yes!
Josh Barkley : You know, that good ole tempo!
[singing]
Josh Barkley : Just give me that Manhattan Downbeat, That beats a tempo of its own, You've got to shout, "This is it!" The day you visit, The jumpin'est town has ever been known.