Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Verree Teasdale: Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess
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Quotes
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Sherwood Nash : But, this number, Your Highness, shall simply knock your eye out!
[spanks Mabel, impersonating a Russian Duchess, in the behind]
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : How dare you!
Sherwood Nash : Come on, now, Mabel. Be yourself!
[grabs and kisses Mabel]
Sherwood Nash : Well, well, well. How are things back in Hoboken?
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : I thought I was getting away with it.
Sherwood Nash : [looking at Mabel's hair] Well, I must admit the peroxide had me fooled for a little bit. But, Mabel,
[looks at and pats Mabel's behind]
Sherwood Nash : I never forget a personality.
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Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : No kidding, Sherry, I didn't think you'd remember me.
Sherwood Nash : No?
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Gee, it must be all of five or six years ago.
Sherwood Nash : It was eleven, to be exact.
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Don't be vulgar. Eleven years ago I was still in finishing school.
Sherwood Nash : And I was a Boy Scout.
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Oh, yeah? Well, what good deed might you be doing in Paris?
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Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : Say, what is this Lynn girl to you anyway?
Sherwood Nash : Now, don't you start. I'm having enough trouble explaining you to her!
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Sherwood Nash : Oh! Baby, baby! Just in time to congratulate you.
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : No kidding, Sherry, how was I? Do they like me?
Sherwood Nash : Like you? Listen to them! Say, if you're half as good in the second act as you were in the first, well, Duchess, they'll make you a Queen!
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Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess : [singing] Play your broken melody, Upon the strings of fantasy, Forget about your rainbow schemes, Spin a little web of dreams...