Hollywood Party (1934)
Jack Pearl: Baron Munchausen
Quotes
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Harvey Clemp : Beg pardon, we haven't met. I'm Harvey Clemp, the oil king. Look, a thousand-dollar bill.
[tears up the bill]
Harvey Clemp : You can't do that unless you're a multimillionaire.
Baron Munchausen : A millionaire! Somebody give him a slipper, quick. Elsie, move over, sit down,.
[to Harvey]
Baron Munchausen : You eat, some champagne in the glass.
Knapp : Baron, don't forget our deal at hand: deliver the lions to the studio in the morning and get our check for fifty grand.
Baron Munchausen : I will, thank you.
Harvey Clemp : I'll give 60.
Knapp : I'll make it 70.
Harvey Clemp : 80.
Knapp : 90.
Harvey Clemp : 100.
Knapp : 110.
Harvey Clemp : 130.
Baron Munchausen : Wait, you skipped 120.
Knapp : 120.
Harvey Clemp : 110.
Knapp : 100.
Harvey Clemp : 90.
Knapp : 80.
Harvey Clemp : 70.
Baron Munchausen : Wait, gentlemen, you're going backwards. We was up to 130,000.
Harvey Clemp : Go ahead anyway, I'll give you the 140.
Knapp : I'll make it 150, and that's all that we can afford.
Baron Munchausen : Can I hear 160, could I hear 155? Going, wenting, leaving, could I please hear 155? Going, going...
Harvey Clemp : I'd rather make it 175.
Baron Munchausen : Sold! Sold to the gentleman on my right for $175,000.
Harvey Clemp : I want to congratulate you Baron, I think you made a mighty good sale there.
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Baron Munchausen : [singing] I'm going to say, I'm going to...
Female chorus singers : [interrupting the Baron's singing] It's an honor to our nation, to hear your salutation / We have our celebration, in great anticipation
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I want to say, I want to...
Baron Munchausen : [the chorus of ladies resumes singing] No leopards made him shiver, no tigers made him quiver / Down by the Niger River, where lions eat your liver
Baron Munchausen : I want to say, I want to say, oh...
Female chorus singers : [a waltz plays as Jimmy dances with the Baron and the chorus girls resume singing] This greeting's really a sensation, a most magnificent ovation
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I only want to say...
Female chorus singers : [singing] He only wants to say...
Baron Munchausen : [pauses singing] Well, let me say it!
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I only want to say...
Baron Munchausen : [fanfare plays, the Baron pauses singing again] Hello! I fooled you!
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] Oh, hello, hello, hello, hel-lo
Female chorus singers : [singing] We are very glad to meet you, and we greet you with hello / Hello, hello, hel-lo.
Durante : [song pauses] Greetings and salutations, Baron! Welcome to my poor house.
Baron Munchausen : [chuckles] Well, who wants to live in a poor house?
Female chorus singers : [singing] Hello forever
Durante : [sings as he shakes the Baron's hand] Hello, forever
Female chorus singers : [song continues] Hello, hello. hel-lo!
Durante : [blushingly after the Baron kisses him on the cheeks] I never knew you cared.
Female chorus singers : [chorus resumes] Hel-lo!
[the guests applaud as the song ends]
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Female chorus singers : [fanfare plays as song starts] This is a holiday, no melancholy day / This is a jolly day / To welcome the Baron, who came from the Congo today
Durante : Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
Durante : [sings] Why, the Baron is coming to say hello,
Female chorus singers : Hello
Durante : Just hello,
Female chorus singers : Hello, hello, hello
Durante : Not hello, hello, hello, but halloo
Female chorus singers : Halloo
Durante : Say, he won't say "howdy-doo", "miss me babe", or "how are you" / "Press the flesh, old thing" or "Cheerio", or say "How's tricks" or "there" or "hi-de-ho" / Not "Wie geht, mein freund" or "mazel tov", "Bonjour" or any high-hat stuff,
Durante : [spoken] What a lingust, what a linguist!
Durante : [song resumes] By now, you ought to know, the Baron's going to say hello,
African tribesmen chorus : A goona goona, a trader horna / Good afternoon-a, or is it morn-a? / Here's the Baron, kicking King Kong around /
Female chorus singers : What's he gonna say, what's he gonna say?
African tribesmen chorus : He's coming here to say hello,
Female chorus singers : Oh no,
African tribesmen chorus : That scootin' tootin sof-of-a-gun from Africa / That prevaricating second-to-none from Africa / He's going to say
Female chorus singers : He's going to say
Baron Munchausen : [a gorilla carries the Baron in his arms] I'm going to say
Baron Munchausen : [song pauses] And so we're here. It has been a long walk, but we're here, ha-ha. Schnarzan, I bring you the most ferocious ape ever captured in the valleys of Africa, he is the son of King Kong. His name is Ping Pong. Now let Papa down. Pingie, go to Schnarzan.
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Baron Munchausen : [singing] I'm going to say, I'm going to...
Female chorus singers : [interrupting the Baron's singing] It's an honor to our nation, to hear your salutation / We have our celebration, in great anticipation
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I want to say, I want to...
Female chorus singers : [the chorus of ladies resumes singing] No leopards made him shiver, no tigers made him quiver / Down by the Niger River, where lions eat your liver
Baron Munchausen : I want to say, I want to say, oh...
Female chorus singers : [a waltz plays as Jimmy dances with the Baron and the chorus girls resume singing] This greeting's really a sensation, a most magnificent ovation
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I only want to say...
Female chorus singers : [singing] He only wants to say...
Baron Munchausen : [pauses singing] Well, let me say it!
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] I only want to say...
Baron Munchausen : [fanfare plays, the Baron pauses singing again] Hello! I fooled you!
Baron Munchausen : [resumes singing] Oh, hello, hello, hello, hel-lo
Female chorus singers : [singing] We are very glad to meet you, and we greet you with hello / Hello, hello, hel-lo.
Durante : [song pauses] Greetings and salutations, Baron! Welcome to my poor house.
Baron Munchausen : [chuckles] Well, who wants to live in a poor house?
Female chorus singers : [singing] Hello forever
Durante : [sings as he shakes the Baron's hand] Hello, forever
Female chorus singers : [song continues] Hello, hello. hel-lo!
Durante : [blushingly after the Baron kisses him on the cheeks] I never knew you cared.
Female chorus singers : [chorus resumes] Hel-lo!
[the guests applaud as the song ends]
