Havana Widows (1933)

Glenda Farrell: Sadie Appleby

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Quotes 

• Mae Knight : I was laid off for turning down a stag affair in Passaic.

  Sadie Appleby : Well, I don't blame ya. We've still got a little pride left. You're not so low you have to let 'em throw pennies at ya!

  Mae Knight : Throw 'em? In Passaic, they use slinghots.

• Showgirl : Violet got a Marine's name tattooed on her arm last night.

  Sadie Appleby : By this time, that arm must read like a regimental roll call.

• Showgirl Rejected by Gladys : If you're waiting for Gladys to stake you to a trip to Havana, save your breath. She wouldn't give you a nickel to go out and see the Statue of Liberty do a nip-up.

  Mae Knight : Well, I guess we better go home. I feel like a horse's neck.

  Sadie Appleby : Yeah-I feel like the rest of the animal.

• Sadie Appleby : Hey, hey! How come I only got 15 this week?

  Paymaster Mullins : You're fined 5 bucks.

  Sadie Appleby : For what?

  Paymaster Mullins : Tuesday matinee, all during the Honolulu number, you were scratching your back with your hand.

  Sadie Appleby : What was I supposed to use? A nutmeg grater?

• Sadie Appleby : I was fined five bucks for foolin' around with eczema.

  Mae Knight : Who's he?

  Sadie Appleby : That's an itch.

• Sadie Appleby : Did you hit oil or something?

  Gladys Gable : My dears, I've been to Cuba! Havana. Don't my skin look tan?

  Mae Knight : Tanned? I'd say it was embossed.

• Sadie Appleby : What'd you do in Cuba, run the mint?

  Gladys Gable : Well, not exactly. But, I had it worried for a little while.

  Mae Knight : Oh, come on, tell us, did you marry a millionaire?

  Gladys Gable : No, but, I've been kicking around with about 15 or 20.

  Sadie Appleby : Think of being knee deep in millionaires.

  Mae Knight : I can't, I get dizzy.

  Gladys Gable : Dears, I'm telling you the place is positively reeking with them. The suckers!

  Mae Knight : Give us the dope, will ya? I'm beginning to think our education's been neglected.

• Sadie Appleby : How long will it take you to pack?

  Mae Knight : Why?

  Sadie Appleby : We're going to Havana while the gold rush is on.

• Sadie Appleby : If a dumb cluck like her can go and make good, a couple of smart dames like us can take over the joint.

  Mae Knight : Oh, yeah?

  Sadie Appleby : Well, we got to do something! We're getting older all the time. We've got to go to Havana and start putting money in the bank. If we don't, in two or three years where are we going to be? Right behind the eight ball.

  Mae Knight : The seven ball, there's no more room behind the eight ball.

• Mae Knight : Sadie! Sadie! There's a man in our bedroom.

  Sadie Appleby : Didn't I tell you our luck would change.

  Mae Knight : Now, don't clown. Maybe we're in the wrong room.

  Sadie Appleby : I'll tell you about that when I take a gander at the guy.

  [Walks into the bedroom and sees Deacon R. Jones in the bed] 

  Sadie Appleby : Has he got his knees raised up or is all that his stomach?

• Mae Knight : Sadie, was his eyes blue or gray?

  Sadie Appleby : Who?

  Mae Knight : Young Jones. Who do you think I mean? Santa Claus?

• Sadie Appleby : How would you like to put that pink little body of yours into a Havana hoosegow?

  Mae Knight : Could they really slap us in the cooler?

  Sadie Appleby : I know it! Duffy said so. What's more, with that husky build of yours, you're liable to be shoved right on a road gang.

• Sadie Appleby : No-no! No, you can't go in there. She's convalescing.

  Herman Brody : Well, she can stop for a few seconds! I gotta talk to her.

• Herman Brody : [Practicing a frame-up]  At last I have found you in the arms of my husband.

  Sadie Appleby : Wife! You nitwit! Will you ever get it straight!

• Sadie Appleby : Now, if he's cold at first, don't get discouraged. Remember, Nero played a fiddle while Rome burned.

  Mae Knight : He better act fast because I'm not gonna burn long enough for him to do much fiddlin'.

• Gladys Gable : Just thought I'd drop in to say ta-ta.

  Sadie Appleby : Say, ain't it funny - only yesterday I was sayin' to Mae...

  Mae Knight : Yeah, yeah, we was wonderin' who you was... whatcha was doin'.

  Gladys Gable : Ain't the... aren't you the dears.

• Bob Jones : Well, let me drive you. All you have to do is to get in, tell me where to go.

  Sadie Appleby : Oh, I don't have to get in to tell you that!