The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

Joan Blondell: Maizie Dickson

Quotes 

• Maizie Dickson : Okay. You win. Welcome to the sobbing sisterhood. I'll send you a membership card in the mail.

• Maizie Dickson : [to Toni Martin]  So, he wants to take you to New York, heh? Well, you sit down, listen to me! Suppose he does take you to Broadway. You'll have a swell time, for awhile, anyway. He's a good teacher. One of the very best! He'll teach you how to breathe nightclub air, how to drink straight rye without making a face, how to mix 18 different kinds of cocktails and take care of cryin' drunks! You learn how to let the men do the work for you and you find out that some of 'em won't do it for nothin'. He'll teach you how to steal pictures and to chisel on your expense account. He'll introduce you to all the hot spot hostesses and speakeasy junkies! You'll learn to stall all the bills for the clothes that look so swell before they had drinks spilled on them. And then one morning you'll wake up with a hangover six times bigger than the state of Texas! And you'll wonder if there's one good reason why you should go on living!

  Bob Parks : Well, then you take three drinks and you don't give a hoot.

  Maizie Dickson : For the first few months you'll be that cute little Martin kid. After that, you'll be known to the trade as good ol' Toni. From then on you're the tough twist from the Globe or the speakeasy sob sister. And when you add it all up it's got a minus sign in front of it and bares a close resemblance to Bob Parks - Broadway's buddy.

  Bob Parks : Well the nice thing is you have so many things to repent when you are older and time - grows - heavy.

• Maizie Dickson : We're just simple newspaper people who like to hear folks talk.

  Reporter Jeff Haines : Yeah, whatever we hear just goes in one ear...

  Maizie Dickson : And comes out through the typewriter.

• Perrin : Hi Boo-ful!

  Maizie Dickson : Boo-ful's looking for Bob Parks and Boo-ful's getting a trifle annoyed.

  Perrin : Bob just went out to get a bite to eat.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, just a little while ago.

  Maizie Dickson : Would it be any violation of your professional ethics to tell me whether or not the bite to eat looked - appetizing?

  Perrin : Sure shot Mazie they calls her.

  Jigger Bolton : Well, if you ask me, I wouldn't mind sitting down to a - dish of it.

• Maizie Dickson : Feel kinda cheap?

  Bob Parks : Well, what do you think?

  Maizie Dickson : Well, if you don't, you're going to, Mr. Parks. I'm sick of having you shove me around and I'm going to give you a man-sized earful, right now!

• Maizie Dickson : I suppose you know that having those slugs write your stories for you is not doing you any good. You'll get canned and no descent newspaper will hire you!

• Bruce Foster : You see, Toni's a pretty good mixer. She gets around. Make a lot of friends.

  Maizie Dickson : Yeah, that does brighten things up a lot, doesn't it? Those girls with that friendly feeling.

  Bruce Foster : So I've heard.

  Maizie Dickson : Are you trying to make a crack!

  Bruce Foster : Oh, no, no, no.

  Maizie Dickson : Well, I was.

• Maizie Dickson : He certainly has made monkeys out of this collection of brains and beauty.

• Bruce Foster : [Last lines]  Do you think you can handle the society news?

  Maizie Dickson : Say, with my experience, I could handle a boa constrictor.