Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Dick Powell: Buddy Clayton

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• Buddy Clayton : [singing]  He taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights, To help him to live at his ease, He made her assume a masculine name, Now she goes on the trapeze, Oooooooo! She floats through the air, With the greatest of ease, You'd think her a man, On the flying trapeze, Her actions are graceful, All girls she does please, And that's what become of me love!

• Rush Blake : How would like to go to New York?

  Buddy Clayton : How would you like a nice ham sandwich?

  Rush Blake : Ah, no, now I'm serious.

  Buddy Clayton : So am I!

• Rush Blake : Sit down a minute, will ya?

  Buddy Clayton : I'm not allowed to sit with a customer.

  Rush Blake : I'm not a customer! I'm a prophet from the promised land.

  Buddy Clayton : Shhh! I'll keep your secret.

  Rush Blake : Sit down a minute, will ya? Listen, I got a perfect honey of an idea. It came to me when I heard you sing.

  Buddy Clayton : Don't blame me for that!

• Buddy Clayton : You sound like you've been reading a dime novel.

  Rush Blake : Boy, don't think of dimes, think in millions! A million dollars waiting for you with your name on it. And you only need me to get it for you.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, I need somebody to get it for me.

• Buddy Clayton : You don't like Rush, do ya?

  Peggy Cornell : Oh, I don't dislike him. I just know him!

• Buddy Clayton : [singing]  He played with a Miss, Like a cat with a mouse, His eyes would undress, Every maid in the house, Perhaps he is better, Described as a louse, Yet, people came just the same...

• Rush Blake : Say listen, kid, every dame in the country will go overboard when you turn on that golden throat.

  Buddy Clayton : And seven Canadian stations.

  Rush Blake : Yeah and seven Canadian stations.

• Buddy Clayton : I can't do anything about it until I talk it over with Peggy.

  Rush Blake : Well, that's fine. Talk it over with Peggy. She'll understand. She's a great guy!

• Pete : How are you fixed for asparagus?

  Buddy Clayton : What? Oh, I get along all right.

  Pete : Well, if you get to need a couple of bucks, let me know.

• Peggy Cornell : [singing]  You may not be an angel.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, you may not be an angel.

  Peggy Cornell : But still I'm sure you'll do.

  Buddy Clayton : Oh, but still I'm sure you'll do.

  Peggy Cornell , Buddy Clayton : So until the day that one comes along, I'll string along with you.

  [kiss] 

• Rush Blake : Have a good time. See the world! Paris, Egypt, London, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Pomona...

  Rush Blake , Peggy Cornell , Buddy Clayton : And seven Canadian stations!