The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

Fred Astaire: Josh Barkley

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• Dinah Barkley : You didn't want to go.

  Josh Barkley : Do you?

  Dinah Barkley : No.

  Josh Barkley : Then, why all the hesitation? All you have to say is, "I'm sorry, I can't make it" or something. You acted as flustered as a school girl at her first prom.

  Dinah Barkley : Well, you - you flustered me! What kind of talk is that? "Gotta go put on the old feedbag!"

  Josh Barkley : Aw, that fellow brings out the gangster in me?

• Josh Barkley : What? What?

  Dinah Barkley : What's the matter?

  Ezra Miller : Nothing, I just thought I'd rescue you from that jungle of squares.

  Josh Barkley : Well, thanks pal.

• Dinah Barkley : I got in the most interesting conversation with Mister, eh, Monsieur Barredout. Allow me to present, Mousieur Barredout, Mister Husband.

  Josh Barkley : Barkley's the name.

  Jacques Pierre Barredout : How do you do?

  Josh Barkley : How do you do?

• Josh Barkley : I've been sneezing and coughing like an old Model T!

• Dinah Barkley : I really don't know what to think of Mr. Barredout. He said some of the silliest, most stupid things.

  Josh Barkley : Well, let's hear some of those silly, stupid things you were so afraid he'd repeat to me.

  Dinah Barkley : Well, if you really must know, he just *hated* the show.

  Josh Barkley : Oh! Did he! I'm glad. Now I know it's good.

• Dinah Barkley : He says I'm a great tragic actress, wasted in musical comedy.

  Josh Barkley : You! A tragic actress! I'm glad you told me. Now, I know he's a complete imbecile!

• Dinah Barkley : Before I really went into the theater, in High School, I played Juliet. "Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo."

  Josh Barkley : Who played Romeo?

  Dinah Barkley : Mildred Higgins. She was quite...

• Josh Barkley : Listen, kid, now don't get any silly notions in your head. You're a song -and-dance girl.

• Josh Barkley : You couldn't walk across the stage without me. There isn't a gesture you do that I didn't teach you!

  Dinah Barkley : That's a lie!

  Josh Barkley : It took a lot of patience to put you where you are. I worked! I pulled things out of you. I molded you - like - like Svengali did Trilby!

  Dinah Barkley : Svengali!

  Josh Barkley : Yeah, the guy with the beard. That's me!

• Dinah Barkley : I'm horrible. I'm just horrible! I know what let's do. Come on, now, hit me!

  Josh Barkley : In cold blood?

  Dinah Barkley : Well, come on, I deserve it.

  Josh Barkley : Aw, you look so brave. You didn't even ask to be blindfolded. I just can't!

  Dinah Barkley : I insist upon being punished!

  Josh Barkley : All right. All right! You asked for it!

  [gives Dinah a big kiss instead] 

  Dinah Barkley : Oh, thank you, darling.

  Josh Barkley : Thank you!

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  All that I know is, You'd be hard to replace, Where else in all this world, Such loveliness and such grace? The poet often chanted, The love he found divine, But never was he granted, A lady love like mine. Deep down, deep down inside, My secret heart knows, The more that I'm with you, The more and more my rapture grows. Without you at my side, I fear, No future could I face, For you'd be oh so hard to replace.

• Josh Barkley : Go on, Shirley.

  Shirlene May : It's Shirlene.

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  A-though I danced each girl in a twist and a-twirl, Ney one would do, And I went a-my way 'til the fatal day, In the fling I was flung a-with you...

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  I thought you were fallin' for Andy MacPherson.

  Dinah Barkley : Ney, ney. He became an impossible person. But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?

  Josh Barkley : She talked when I putted and drove me to frenzie. But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?

  Dinah Barkley : It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal. And weren't ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?

  Josh Barkley : I tasted her cooking. T'would make me a hermit. How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon.

  Dinah Barkley : His neck had a head on, but there wasn't much in.

  Josh Barkley : And what about Sandy?

  Dinah Barkley : His hands were too handy. And wasn't there a Jenny?

  Josh Barkley : I'm not wantin' any. I'm not wantin' any but you...

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  Oh, Now my heart is prancin', A-gay as a lark and happy as a king...

• Dinah Barkley , Josh Barkley : [singing]  A weekend in the country, Healthy and full of sport.

  Dinah Barkley : And then it isn't small potatoes

  Josh Barkley : When you get those fresh tomatoes.

  Ezra Millar : I've a list of fresh tomatoes, Suing me now in court!

• Josh Barkley : Hey, Jacques-son! Dig you later, boy!

  Jacques Pierre Barredout : Qu'est-ce que c'est: dig you later?

• Dinah Barkley : He believes in me. He gives me confidence in myself. All you've ever done is tear me down, make me feel like a nobody, your little sidekick! "Can't even walk across the stage without you!"

  Josh Barkley : Right!

  Dinah Barkley : "Can't even make a gesture!"

  Josh Barkley : Correct.

  Dinah Barkley : Big, fat Svengali!

  Josh Barkley : You're darn tootin'!

• Josh Barkley : How was the great tragic actress getting along?

  Ezra Millar : Okay, I guess. She appeared a little nervous. Seemed to be floundering around, unsure of herself.

  Josh Barkley : You know something, she's going to take a header, right on her face. And you know something else, I'm gonna let her lie there.

  Ezra Millar : That's the spirit. Who says the age of chivalry is dead?

• Josh Barkley : [on the phone pretending to be Jacques]  Incidentally, while we're in rehearsal, I wish you wouldn't be so - demonstrative.

  Dinah Barkley : So - what?

  Josh Barkley : Demonstrative.

  Dinah Barkley : What do you mean?

  Josh Barkley : Well, throwing your arms around my neck and kissing me in front of the company is most embarrassing. We'll have none of that.

  Dinah Barkley : Why, Jacques?

  Josh Barkley : Discipline, you know.

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  The way your smile just beams, The way you sing off key, The way you haunt my dreams, No, no they can't take that away from me...

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  The way we danced until three, The way you changed my life, No, no they can't take that away from me, No, they can't take that away from me.

• Dinah Barkley : Look, Josh, that wasn't just another squabble we had. Our break-up wasn't just a whim of the moment. It's been coming for a long, long time. It had to happen. You - you've been taking me for granted too long. I have to stand on my own two feet as a - as a person *and* as an actress. Until I do, I can't take time to think about - us - or anything connected with the future. And that's how its got to be.

  Josh Barkley : You really do mean it, don't you?

  Dinah Barkley : Yes, I do.

  Josh Barkley : Thanks for the dance.

• Josh Barkley : I hope you'll find your new director easier to get along with - than I was.

  Dinah Barkley : I doubt that. Good-bye.

  Josh Barkley : Good-bye.

  Dinah Barkley : Don't you even want to - shake hands?

  [imitating Josh imitating Jacques' French accent] 

  Dinah Barkley : Perhaps you should not be quite so demonstrative. Throwing your arms around me and kissing me in front of all of those people. Discipline, you know. Discipline.

• Josh Barkley : Dinah, you know.

  [Dinah shakes her head "yes"] 

  Josh Barkley : And - and you tortured me like this?

  Dinah Barkley : Just a little torture.

• Josh Barkley : You're such a wonderful girl. You're such a talented actress. Oh, your performance was magnificent! You don't know how great you are! I have an idea for play.

  Dinah Barkley : Darling, I don't want to do another play.

  Josh Barkley : No more dramas?

  Dinah Barkley : No biography.

  Josh Barkley : No messages?

  Dinah Barkley : No worrying about the plot!

  Josh Barkley : No?

  Dinah Barkley : No!

  Josh Barkley : Then we'll have nothing but fun set to music.

  Dinah Barkley : Yes!

  Josh Barkley : We'll have - tempo.

  Dinah Barkley : Yes!

  Josh Barkley : You know, that good ole tempo!

  [singing] 

  Josh Barkley : Just give me that Manhattan Downbeat, That beats a tempo of its own, You've got to shout, "This is it!" The day you visit, The jumpin'est town has ever been known.

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  Drive up any avenue, swing down any street, No beat has Manhattan Downbeat beat!

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  The way you wear your hat. The way you sip your tea. The memory of all that. No, no. They can't take that away from me.

• Josh Barkley : [singing]  We may never, never meet again, on the bumpy road to love. Still I'll always, always keep the memory of... The way you hold your knife. The way we danced till three. The way you changed my life. No, no. They can't take that away from me.