Dancing Lady (1933)
Joan Crawford: Janie Barlow
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Quotes
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Patch Gallagher : Yes, yes, yes, the top spot. Where if you drop, you've got twice as far to fall. Maybe I'm a sap for trying. And maybe I can make something out of you if you can stand up when I get through with you.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I've got good legs, Mr. Gallagher.
Patch Gallagher : Yes, so I've noticed, but don't let them run away with you.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Sorry to tell ya, but I'm the kind of investment that doesn't pay.
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[last lines]
Patch Gallagher : Say, what is this you're dishing out?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Can't you take it?
[Kiss]
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : [reading a note from Tod] Don't say 'them things'. Don't say 'can it'. Don't say 'guy'. Don't buy shoes with ribbons on them. Don't forget, what's a striptease on 2nd Avenue is art on Broadway. The $50 is to buy you a dress without a zipper.
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Policeman : [During a raid at the Burlesque House] Wait a minute, you... Come on up to the station house, the Lieutenant is throwing a party.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Can't I even get some clothes?
Policeman : No, he wants you just as you are.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Oh, it's that kind of a party!
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Tod Newton : Do you like gardenias?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I love 'em!
Tod Newton : I could take you in my yacht to Tahiti where they grow wild, millions of 'em.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Hoping I'd go wild too, huh?
Tod Newton : It might do you a world of good, Janie.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Tod, dance me towards the bedroom, will you?
Tod Newton : Hmmm...
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I want to get my coat. I'm going home.
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Patch Gallagher : Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : All right.
Patch Gallagher : Freddie!
Fred Astaire : Yes, Pat.
Patch Gallagher : Show Miss Barlow the routine on that opening number, will you?
Fred Astaire : I'd love to.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : [to the heavy-drinking Tod Newton] You sure drink a good dinner.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : What kind of a guy is Patch Gallagher, Rosie?
Rosette Henrietta LaRue : Compared to him an elephant's hide is tissue paper, but he sure knows his stuff.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'm like the guy throwing quarters in the slot machine. I keep on trying.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'll stick to those thousand-to-one shots - sometimes they win.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You didn't stop to think that I might have to wrestle my way home, did you?
Rosette Henrietta LaRue : That's all right. Let him insult you. Plenty a girl has cashed in on a good-hearted insult.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Listen, Paderewski, were them funny noises comin' outta you or the piano?
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Rosette Henrietta LaRue : You could dream better if you'll get to sleep.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'm through dreamin'. I'm gonna start doin'. I'm going up where it's art. Uptown.
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Jasper Bradley, Sr. : We're always looking for fresh talent. You can sing and dance, I suppose?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Yes sir.
Jasper Bradley, Jr. : But, Papa, how 'bout her rhythm?
Jasper Bradley, Sr. : Eh-eh, that's Gallagher's job, not yours.
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Jasper Bradley, Jr. : You sure have got rhythm, baby.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Yeah, well, keep your hands off it.
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Tod Newton : You think you're a dancer, huh? You'll never be an artist until you find out what life's about.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You ought to open up a art school for chorus girls.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I milked a cow once.
Tod Newton : What kind of a cow? Was it a Jersey or a Guernsey?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I don't know. I didn't see the license plate.
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Patch Gallagher : Hey, look, those guys are a lot of silk hats and silk socks with nothing between. That's what all these dames fall for. Don't let it fool you. It never works out.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : But...
Patch Gallagher : Dancing is your racket, Duchess, I know it.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'm not going to run out on you.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Okay, bruiser, the first round's yours. But I'm not licked yet!
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Patch Gallagher : I don't mix business with pleasure.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Well, it'd be a pleasure to me if you'd mind your own business.
Patch Gallagher : Yeah? Say, listen, its my business to see that you gals keep your shapes, Duchess.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You mean to see that we don't give 'em away.
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Patch Gallagher : Hey, listen, did you ever take a look at a dame who's been out too many nights? The customers out front just love it!
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Will you stop beefin'! You're not on the stage now.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Shake.
Patch Gallagher : Now, will ya...
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Beat it! Yeah, I know. I'll beat it.
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Tod Newton : That's a swell dance! It's a little bit uncivilized, though.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Maybe that's why its so beautiful.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Not for me, Tod. I'm not thirsty.
Tod Newton : I get it. When a lady says she isn't thirsty, she means all she can drink is Champagne cocktails.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You ought to write a book about what women want.
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Patch Gallagher : Even the creditors are wise. Hangin' around like a pack of hungry wolves.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : But, don't you see, if you could show 'em a hit.
Patch Gallagher : You can't kid them. I'll be lucky if they let the curtain go up. They know a hit from a bust!
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Oh, Pat, if its gonna be a bust, let me be there when it happens.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : [singing] Let's go Bavarian, Get yourself a sweet fräulein, She can help you drink a stein, Of good cold beer. Let's go Bavarian, Clink your glasses all around, Make that tinkle tinkle sound...
Fred Astaire : Spread good cheer! Here in Bavaria, They take good care of ya...
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I saw your face once, in the wings. It made me feel as if everything I was doin' was wrong.
Patch Gallagher : I guess I got that kind of a face.
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Patch Gallagher : OK, Duchess. Better luck with your show than you had with mine.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Thanks.
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Tod Newton : Hello, Gallagher.
Patch Gallagher : Well, well, if it isn't the other half of the firm. Back from Havana so soon? Somebody close your show, too?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You trying to be funny, Patch? Tom's not in the show business.
Patch Gallagher : Another
[orders a drink after downing a shot]
Patch Gallagher : ... Not in the show business huh?
Tod Newton : Come on away, Janie, he's just a...
Patch Gallagher : I'm a little drunk, is that what you're trying to say. Well, drunk or sober, my hat's still off to you. There are more ways than one to close a show, and you taught me a new one.
Tod Newton : That's enough...
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Hey, wait a minute.
Patch Gallagher : What's the matter? Afraid your boyfriend'll get a poke in the jaw for throwing a hundred people out of work just so he could take you on a joy ride to Cuba?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I don't know what you're talking about,.
Patch Gallagher : No? Not much.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : I'll be seeing ya.
Patch Gallagher : Oh, sure, sure. We'll sit around the fire, whittle sticks, and talk about a girl who traded Broadway for Park Avenue.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : You shouldn't have said that, Patch.
Patch Gallagher : No. No, I shouldn't have said that. And I shouldn't have said anything to you but "beat it" the day you came in here.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : OK, I'll take it. But remember, I stay out of your private collection.
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Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Gee, this is a swell du... uh, place.
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Patch Gallagher : You got paid for rehearsing. Nobody else did. You didn't think Bradley gave you that, do you?
Tod Newton : Shut up, Gallagher.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Say, what is this?
Patch Gallagher : Ah, you don't savvy, eh?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : No.
Patch Gallagher : Well, maybe I oughtta speak Cuban. It's the same in any language. I suppose you don't know that your boyfriend here paid Bradley to close the show.
Tod Newton : You can settle that with me, Gallagher. Janie had nothing to do with it.
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Tod, did you...
Patch Gallagher : Oh, yes, Tod did, and I'd like to take Tod over to the theater right now and feed him to the boys and girls for breakfast. They need something to eat. Well, we'll show 'em tomorrow night, and on my dough.
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Patch Gallagher : Hmm, out with the rich folks, eh?
Janie 'Duchess' Barlow : Just one rich folk.
Patch Gallagher : One's usually enough.