Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Alan Dinehart: Charles Wallingham

Quotes 

• Charles Wallingham : You'd better give this case your personal attention.

  Miss Joan Martin : I'll get on it right away before Jimmy Corrigan and his Tarzans get wind of it.

  Charles Wallingham : Wait a minute. Corrigan doesn't get any... tips from the emergency.

  Miss Joan Martin : I don't trust him! He'd bribe a corpse to sit up and telephone!

• Charles Wallingham : [In a French accent]  Au revoir, Cunningham.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : [In a New York accent]  Fillette Mignon, Wallingham.

• Charles Wallingham : [as she is crying]  Joan, dear, I'm a bit gauche at this sort of thing, but why don't you let me take care of you?

  Miss Joan Martin : [Shocked]  Mr. Wallingham!

  Charles Wallingham : Oh, don't "Mister" me, please, as I've grown very fond of you.

  Miss Joan Martin : Mr. Wallingham!

  Charles Wallingham : [Said as a double entendre]  I've tried to make you... really mine.

• Miss Joan Martin : How exciting! What a chance for us.

  Charles Wallingham : I love your enthusiasm.

• Charles Wallingham : It's invaluable having you here, knowing as much about Corrigan as you do and his peculiar technique. You're very stimulating.

  Miss Joan Martin : I need a haircut.

• Miss Joan Martin : Every time a hot tip comes into this office, Ronny Gaston steps out to get a deck of cigarettes.

  Charles Wallingham : I see - and your feminine instinct tells you?

  Miss Joan Martin : It tells me I'm going to get a big black cigar.

• Charles Wallingham : Please say, yes. Please. We could spend a quiet weekend together.

  Miss Joan Martin : I'm afraid.

  Charles Wallingham : Of what, dear?

  Miss Joan Martin : That I won't make you happy.

  Charles Wallingham : Oh, dearest.

  Miss Joan Martin : I promise you, I'll try awfully hard.

  Charles Wallingham : Sweet little idiot.

  Miss Joan Martin : To make you a good wife.

  Charles Wallingham : Was that your phone?

  Miss Joan Martin : I didn't hear anything.